The GOP voted for it in the past, and Trump should have gone both to the people and to Congress to hold them to passing what they all ran on to get elected and re-elected over the past 6 years.
And “replace”, as a free market solution, means taking away the government interventions that gummed up the market previously: the McCarron-Ferguson Act and the tax deductibility of employer-provided insurance.
Because Trump is also talking about reducing personal income tax rates, he had the perfect opportunity to do the two together: get employers out of the healthcare market and move to lower rates, with the removal of tax deductibility offsetting the hit to the treasury.
That’s what he should have done, but instead he went in the completely opposite, Obama-like direction.
Disgusting.
the AHCA bill was polling at 17%. A Freedom Caucus Repeal and Do not replace bill that returns us to Healthcare as it existed in 2009 would have 7% approval.
People do not want discrimination on pre-existing conditions. Period. Democrats would destroy us with ad after ad of people saved by Obamacare and now dying or DEAD!
These are the facts. Repeal without a Replacement is political suicide.
How do you conclude that the Congress is going to pass a law acceptable to the Lovers of Losing Caucus? This revision of Obamacare may not even pass the Senate. The Democrats are going to scream about defunding Planned Parenthood and the other positive features of the bill.
Thirty or so Democrats voted against the original Obamacare bill. There is nothing wrong with seeking their votes for this one. Then the tail stops wagging the dog.
Again, you are ignoring the senate. No chance they would have passed a clean repeal