These conversations should have taken place the first time around. That they weren’t, cost Trump and Republicans as a movement for reform and swamp draining. Personally I think that the Speaker did what he did intentionally to hobble any kind of conservative free market leadership in Congress. Once R’s have a solution that brings meaningful improvements (ie market-based cost savings) to health care, they need to hold public hearings and sell the plan to the People. Any Obamacare collapses in the meantime belong to D’s and D’s only. There will need to be some stopgap accommodation for those affected by Obamafailure. Let’s sell a sustainable private health system!
What bothered me the most about the failure to vote on TrumpCare was Trump’s response.
That Friday he announced that he was done. That healthcare reform failed and so he was “moving on”. He was going to move from healthcare reform to tax reform.
Only to start first thing again Monday with tweet after tweet blaming the HFC.
And did we miss it? Did we miss the tax code reform Trump said he was moving on to?
No. No, I don’t think we did. The way I see it - Trump has continued to be too busy sucking up to RyanCare to be bother with tax code reform.