Nobody crossed party lines for Replace. They crossed party lines because they are tired of political correctness on carbon and speech and genders that are not scientific genders.
The desire of both Republicans and most non-Republicans is an economic boom so big that everyone has a good job and can afford their own medical care. The desire of most Republicans is that private voluntary charity care for those few who can’t work. eg who raised big money for St Jude’s Hospital?
Given our failed mis-education system, can the economy provide good paying jobs for low skilled, uneducated workers?
Given the enormity of the problem, how fast can we grow the economy?
The risk is that without Replace, the economy does not grow fast enough and the low skilled don’t earn enough to cover medical care.
Subsidized Medical care actually has only 4 constituencies:
Pregnant women and their babies
War Vets
Senior citizens
Poor life style choices (over-eating, addiction, promiscuity, crime, etc)
No sane politician proposes eliminating Medicaid, Medicare, Vet care. The question is who how to change them to have less overhead... less inefficiency.
And why not death panels for adults who made poor lifestyle choices. Why should we be force to pay for those who chose to do drugs. If private charities want to help them, that is fine. By why force it on taxpayers?
How do you draw the line with heart attacks, strokes and cancer?
If someone EVER smoked a cigarette or drank a beer or ate at McDonalds they are ineligible?
Or is it a month, or a year of use?
How do you know their problem was CAUSED by their lifestyle choice?
After that irrational grouping, I bailed.
I can certainly eliminate Medicaid, without a second thought.
Medicaid is simply undeserved charity by the federal government. I fail to find that among the enumerated powers in the Constitution.
The same for the arrogant claim that some can arbitrarly define, for everyone else, "That's who we are..." not there either.