You speak with a really good working knowledge of this. Have you contacted the WH to relay your thoughts? I wonder if the members of the Freedom Caucus have relayed your same input to PDJT and if so, what his reaction was.
No, I haven’t.
It is very unfortunate that Trump is taking this whole approach (e.g., meeting three times in person with Ezekiel Emmanuel on it!), given how he talked at so many of his rallies about replacing Obamacare with a free market approach, such as competition across state lines.
I guess the best hope now is that this bill at least gets pulled this week and they have to go back to the drawing board.
And you are probably right, that I and others could do more (other than typing here and tweeting back at Trump) to get the simple free market message out.
But it is such a shame that Trump seems to be turning to his liberal/Democrat daughter and son-in-law on policy, since they are not who we voted for and their approach is not what he campaigned on. I mean, not only did he name the Manhattan Democrat former president of Goldman Sachs as his Chief Economic Advisor, he has Cohn in there with Ivanka (very liberal) and Jared (lifelong Democrat) on these key meetings as well.