Sadly, not too many congress critters are though.
Paul Ryan is not a man of his word.
This is his bill.
Therein lies the problem.
So, I'm sure, is Mr. Ryan. In his case the question is, his word to whom?
Today on Hannity's radio show Ryan said his bill is "Tim Price's bill plus replace", it is "repeal plus replace"
That is lie.
Here is the relevant part Price's bill:
Sec 2. REPEAL OF PPACA AND HEALTH CARE-RELATED HCERA PROVISIONS.There is nothing similar in Ryan's bill.
(a) PPACA.-Effective as of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111148), such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.(b) HEALTH CARE-RELATED PROVISIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010.Effective as of the enactment of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111152), title I and subtitle B of title II of such Act are repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such title or subtitle, respectively, are restored or revived as if such title and subtitle had not been enacted.
Here is Ryans bill: http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/AmericanHealthCareAct.pdf
REPEAL NOT REPLACE
REPEAL WITHOUT REPLACE
REPEAL THEN REPLACE RYAN
REPLACE RYAN WITH RAND
REPEAL BUT NOT REPLACE
REPLACE THIS
NEVER REPEAL AND REPLACE
NEVER REPLACE
DO NOT REPLACE
ALWAYS REPEAL AND NEVER REPLACE
PURSUE REPEAL AVOID REPLACE
REPLACE REPLACE WITH REPEAL
REPEAL AND REPEAL AGAIN REPEAT
REPLACE MY ARSE
REPEAL REPLACE
REPEAL THIS SLAVERY
REPUBLICANS REPEAL DEMOCRATS REPLACE
REPEAL ALL DONORS
REPLACE THE SPEAKER
ideally this should be fixable in reconciliation.
a devil’s advocate hypothesis is that all these guys in the house face re-election. they have no choice but to maximize their popularity at all times. maybe a handful of them are in need of a popularity boost at home, being able to inoculate themselves against the great white devil trump to their constituents. what better way to indicate their independence than to vote for an “obamacare lite” bill in defiance of trump, only to have it shot down in the senate during reconciliation? trump can always sign the resultant bill if reconciliation fixes the flaws, and everyone can have their cake and eat it too.
that is the only explanation i can come up with when watching everyone talk about this on fox. all defenders of the current bill seem to be mealymouthed during cross-questioning, such as the guy on hannity this evening.
so, bottom line, might not be time to worry about trump yet.
and also i suspect that the last thing trump needs right now is a civil war within the republican party.
who is the party leader, if not trump? certainly not the nobodies ryan or mcconnell. hopefully even they will admit this.
and again trump and his family need to be very very careful. i think it is not unreasonable to believe that the deep state put out a lament about him. you can take lament to mean whatever.