Couldn’t they just let it sunset, and when it runs out of money, be ready with a well-crafted replacement?
“As I wrote, the next deal is with the Democrats and then the freedom caucus votes will not matter. “
Right, so rather than work with the Freedom Caucus to fix it re-write an even worse bill that some Rats will vote for. Great just great.
They could do a lot of things like not lie about actually wanting to keep what the have and only change a few names of the cr@ppy parts.
I believe they have never wanted to repeal it, but they wanted the illusion of resealing it, all the while leading us down into the Single Payer rat hole.
If they had really wanted to kill it they would defunded it 4 years ago but they didn't. Want to know why we still fund abortions, NPR, NEA or FDE, because they want to keep it funded else they would be gone. They only want to rail against those thing around election time when it doesn't matter.
Isn't that what they just tried?
Hell, they (the Repubos) under both Boehner and Ryan supported this funding in the past. They remain too scared to "shut down the government"; and Mitch is simply a coward in these matters.
The Congress will keep funding this piece of crap Obamacare and also bail out the entire healthcare insurance industry ad nauseum forever.
Meanwhile, people who are not subsidized will bear the brunt of the fiasco with ever rising premiums and $5000 to $10,000 deductibles. The only thing that is going to crash is the economy. And when the smoke clears, the public will be clamoring for single payer!