"From Hell's heart I stab at thee;
For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
Posted on 11/12/2018 9:55:39 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Republican Party lost its House majority on July 28, 2017, when Sen. John McCain ended the party’s seven-year quest to repeal ObamaCare. House leadership had done an admirable job herding cats. On the second try, we passed the American Health Care Act in May. Then McCain’s inscrutable vote against the Senate’s “skinny repeal” killed the reform effort.
McCain’s last-minute decision prompted a “green wave” of liberal special-interest money, which was used to propagate false claims that the House plan “gutted coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.” That line was the Democrats’ most potent attack in the midterms.
It was endlessly repeated by overt partisans in the media. An especially egregious column in Minneapolis’s Star Tribune asserted the AHCA would turn back the clock so that “insurers could consider sexual assaults and even pregnancy [to be] pre-existing conditions.” In fact, the bill prohibited sex discrimination and stated: “Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting insurers to limit access to health coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.”
The problem was—and still is—that under ObamaCare all policyholders are charged as if they are sick. If restoring a modicum of traditional underwriting by loosening the Affordable Care Act’s strict age-rating rule discriminated against the old, then ObamaCare was—and is—discriminating against the young. The AHCA would have relieved this problem by allowing states to opt out of ObamaCare’s most onerous mandates and instead cover the most difficult-to-insure with $138 billion worth of high-risk pools. That would have arrested the ObamaCare “death spiral” and, as the Congressional Budget Office admitted, reduced both premiums and the deficit.
Emerging in response to World War II-era wage and price controls, health insurance has been tied to employment.
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I say it is PRyno’s fault for doing as much as possible to thwart the will of the Trump Voters.
Anti-Obamacare Repeal. Anti-Wall. Not a hero.
Spot on!
murkoski and collins, as well. and don’t forget the senator from MSM, rand paul, who’s histrionics (before a bill even existed) were the top story on repeal and replace; paul ought to be charged with giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
At the ranch it is the concensus McPain, and Ryan are the base cause of what followed that caused the loss of the House, and other losses this past mid term election.
Both of these Narcissists deliberately sabotaged the Trump agenda either for personal revenge, or misguided loyalties to Globalism.
We still have Obamacare because the big donors in the GOP love socialized medicine. I no longer chase squirrels looking for any other explanation. The GOP answers to K Street and not Main Street. It’s that simple.
The GOP lost because of fraud.
McCain, almost like no other, held on to power until his last breath. This more than anything else handed the seat to the Dems. If he had retired three years ago a Republican would have won in 2016.
McCain also lost us the Senate seat in AZ today. Should have retired 4 years ago.
All loses, all horrors, all crickets are now on us. Not the RINOs and not the party.
President Trump leads an army of the timid.
The GOP lost because of fraud.
You are exactly right. This healthcare nonsense is a smoke screen covering a supposedly legit election which we know it wasn’t.
No. The GOP lost the House over a hundred years ago. There’s a very well established pattern, with rare exception, like twice in the last hundred years, the party of the sitting president loses seats in midterms. Period. It’s very boring actually.
As good as Trump has done, he would have sorted out Health care by now. McCain stopped that.
Reaching out from the grave (like many Dem voters) “my friend”....
The day McCain thumbed down healthcare my Dad sighed and said “there goes the House.”
The day McCain thumbed down healthcare my Dad sighed and said “there goes the House.”
Oh, and don’t think that when McCain’s wife or daughter wasn’t named to replace him his team didn’t swing into action to undermine McSally.
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