They want to repeal and then hope that Democrats repeal the repeal, and then they will run again on repealing the repeal of the repeal.
How hard can this be?
- Repeal Obamacare
- ???
- Great health care!
âFine. Fuck it. Hereâs the shit sandwich you want so bad. Eat it!â
He knows that will never happen. Then he can tell the two year old he tried and move on to something else.
Such a shameful sham. The entire reason theyâre obsessed with repealing is due to healthcareâs need for taxes to maintain the system. Theyâre unable to slash taxes for the rich unless they can diminish the needs. They would prefer not to replace as that still requires some taxation. These are not leaders of the people, theyâre minions tasked to appease the wealthy.
It might happen. Tough legislative obstacles for McConnell, but he might be able to wiggle his way around them.
His plan sounds like a strategy of killing Obamacare in the Senate and then working in a House-Senate conference (which there would definitely be) to include the worst aspects of each houseâs proposal in a new health care law â perhaps eliminate Medicaid expansion in 12 months; tighter cost-of-living escalators on what remains of Medicaid; then toss in Cruzâs junk insurance plans for good measure.
The GOP membersâ calculus may simply be that not killing Obamacare is more dangerous to their political careers than enacting a law that huge majorities of the public find shameful.
We are back to this being a transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy.
If I understand the situation correctly, they cannot wholly repeal the ACA without it becoming subject to Senate filibuster (This is a contributing reason why Trumpcare was a such a mess to begin with). With their meager 52 votes, they can only repeal certain aspects of it, which would result in a total mess in the insurance markets. Delaying the implementation of the (limited) repeal would not stop the insurance and health industry from going haywire in anticipation â two years is, after all, not a long time.
In other words, the limited repeal McConnell can actually pass would create even more chaos and harm â and thus more backlash â than even Trumpcare.
I smell a desperate man.
âThe 2015 legislation would repeal many of Obamacareâs taxes immediately, while repealing its Medicaid expansion and its tax credits for insuranceâŚit would lead to 32 million more uninsuredâŚâ
And there it is at long last.
The stunning, unvarnished, naked, donât-even-try-to-pretend-anymore truth.
The only thing that ever mattered to McConnell.
A swift, pitiless, unflinching sacrifice of untold millions.
To ram through an emergency taxectomy for his billionaire patrons.
Exactly!
Ye olde âScorched Earthâ political strategy.
So you think you have 60 votes Yertle.?? Do ya??
I donât
Is this how you âwork with democratsâ?
This is âbipartisanshipâ?
I think McConnell hates America and Americans. There us no other way to understand it. If you donât have tens of millions of dollars you do not rate.
It was never anything else
Donât they need 60 votes to do a straight repeal?
If passed, the taxes are repealed immediately. Some of the taxes were reinstated in the most recent iteration of this monster due to the back lash. I do not get the McConnellâs logic. If this gambit fails,Trump is humiliated but McConnell looks foolish.
The ACA polls well. Most simply want it fixed.
Mike DeBonis is an absolute treasure.
Maybe not because the regulations are not being touched. All they needed to do was fix the ACA. It couldâve been done in a bipartisan manner. Trump could sign it and theyâd all be heros -including Trump. It all seems so self destructive.
Hereâs the guy who will sign the bill:
I really wish this was photoshopped