[Alberta's Child]

... moderates and conservatives are lining up against the bill ...

This sounds like a bill that never should have been drafted in the first place. Moderates and conservatives hate it for two different reasons:

1. Conservatives hate it because it keeps 95% of Obamacare intact.

2. Moderates hate it because they know it isn't going to reduce insurance premiums at all -- which means they're going to lose their seats in 2018 if it passes.

The GOP needs to pass a bill that meets ONE important condition: It has to save people money, or this is all just a waste of time and a political disaster in the making.

[Owen]

There isn’t any bill that will reduce costs in an aging population. You know this.

Trump is president not because some hard core right wing conservatives in Texas voted for him. He’s president because he flipped some Obama voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Those guys are not red meat conservatives. They Voted Obama.

They voted Trump this time because he said he’d repeal and replace (YES, IT WAS BOTH, LOOK IT UP) and he said he’d build a wall. They don’t give a damn about RINO GOP or staunch conservative GOP. They don’t care about GOP at all. They have been screwed and Trump was the only one who told them he would start to unscrew them.

TRUMP IS AND NEVER WAS A CONSERVATIVE. He’s a populist and he is why Hillary is not there. The GOP conservatives couldn’t even get the nomination, let alone beat Hillary.

Trump saved you from her. It’s time to stand with him.

[rollo tomasi]

The fly in the ointment to the reduction of cost are all those preexisting conditions. Trump and most Congressional Republicans do not want to touch that with a ten foot pole which is why single payer is not too far out in the distance. Once the line (Preexisting conditions) is crossed, the whole crap sandwich becomes ironclad and repackaged as a stool sandwich/victorious repeal and re(contains the same consequences)place.