The dems do absolutely nothing to help things insisting to play hardball politics. Problem is no one plays hardball better that Pres. Trump.
Well, maybe.
They have one goal--to get back in power.
If they destroy the country getting that goal accomplished then I do believe they'd be willing to do so.
Working with their media wing you can see that they're doing whatever it takes to lessen Trump's popularity and get low information voters thinking things that simply aren't true but make nice 20 second sound bites or tweetable points.
If, under a Republican plan, premiums/deductibles continue to rise, people will believe that Obamacare’s replacement made things worse. They will blame Republicans and the GOP will pay a heavy price.
No Republican should support replacement legislation unless he or she is confident it will result in better outcomes with regard to premiums/deductibles. If Democrats won’t support legislation that’s likely to produce that result, Republicans should either push such legislation through without Democratic support (overruling the Senate parliamentarian) if necessary or let such legislation be voted down.
Republicans have no obligation to pass replacement legislation they don’t like in order to patch up Obamacare. The Democrats created the current mess. If they won’t cooperate with the GOP in fixing it properly, Republicans shouldn’t take the political hit that would come with pretending to fix it on their own.
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I tend to agree with this. The Freedom Caucus is taking heat, but my rep is Dave Brat (holds the only Ph. D. in economics in the House so he has a clue how these things work) & I'm happy with him this morning - he wants a Trump "win" & it wasn't going to be with Ryancare which would have been a millstone around Trump's neck. Obamacare is breaking the budget for people & then they can't afford to use it so when Ryancare doesn't affect the costs of premiums/deductibles which continue to rise until the next presidential election, this would have been devastating ... shows what Ryan cares about and it's not "we the people" and it's not keeping the Dems from getting back in office (he did enable Obama to pretty much do whatever he wanted, too). Ryan needs to go - he's proved disloyal to ME, a fellow American ... not withstanding his lack of support for Trump (campaign to the present). I have no idea who would replace him - might have to go 'outside the box/House' because no one in the House appears to want the job.
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Brat, Friday morning on Jimmy Barret radio show:
DAVE BRAT: It maintains all three legs of the stool and starts up another mini-entitlement system, and keeps all of the insurance regulations in place. The Secretary [HHS Secretary Tom Price] has huge power to get rid of a lot of those, but that's not good, because the next secretary will be a democrat sometime down the line. And they can change it all back and you are playing bumper cars with 1/6th of the economy.
We want to get to 'yes'. We've been in with President Trump, trying to get some fundamental reforms that will get the price down. But as of right now in the bill, the price still goes up 15-20% until 2020... And on the politics, our phone calls into the office yesterday were 700 against the bill and only 100 for. The new polling out there is that only 17% of the country is in favor of the bill...
There's so much pressure up here in the DC bubble, there's just huge money pressure from special interests that just comes heaping down on your head. But I represent the people, and the people are overwhelmingly saying we want a full repeal of this thing because they want to go shop for their own healthcare again. [They are saying] We just want a normal life back like it was ten years ago when premiums were under half of what they are today.