Aw, they’re fretting. That doesn’t come anywhere close to the emotional fear/dread cast upon much of the population. Throw in that dash of possible (likely) Sec. Price desire to decouple insurance from employers - in exchange for a coupon (still from the employer - so it’s not decoupling insurance from employment, more like making it cheaper for employers and more costly in future years for everyone) - the system they ‘create’ could be the system for everyone’s healthcare in the future. Ya, GOP, you better be fretting - but not just the “political damage” you cause to yourselves, you need to fear the damage you are heaping on to your constituents, your families, and yourselves.
Repeal it, rename it and pass it the same day. Done.
Yup.
TPM’s Tierney Sneed reported that one lawmaker at the retreat chastised her for using the word “Obamacare” to refer to the healthcare law, telling her that the preferred term was “Affordable Care Act.”
Primary move right there.
It is not the market you should worry about,it is the body count.
How rich. They’re all worried about the political consequences, but the consequences on the health of millions of Americans is apparently of no concern to them.
They’re scum, pure and simple.
GOP: We have been bitching about Obama’s Waterloo for over six years. Are we saying this could be our Waterloo?
The entire GOP Ship of Fools has more leaks than bailers. What a Titanic fail!
2 years can go by really fast.
Trump: I am not worried. Our supporters are idiots. They will always vote Republicans even if we torture them, grab their pussies or kill their loved ones. Evangelicals will be with us for eternity.
The GOP thought they were being cute when they came up with the moniker “Obamacare” so they have to own it, like it or not.
I wish that were true, but have another take on it.
At some point, we need to stop thinking that Republicans have made a mistake, and instead pay attention to what they are actually doing. Republicans have to destroy Obamacare before they can repeal it, otherwise the political cost of throwing 20 million people off healthcare and eliminating popular aspects of the law become too high. My belief is that they will do this by destabilizing the healthcare exchanges over the next few months, so that when insurance firms have to propose 2018 plans in late spring the options in most states will be either much more expensive or entirely nonexistent.
I had expected that process would start by Trump dropping the appeal over cost subsidies in House v Burwell, but in fact it’s even easier than that. Trump’s executive order allows the possibility of regulators waiving the requirement for a mandate. This is a clear signal to insurance firms that they will not be allowed to offer a financially viable healthcare plan next year. Even if the rule changes are challenged in court, what insurance actuary is going to bring a plan to the market knowing the rug can be pulled out from under them at any time? It’s a knife in the back of Obamacare.
I don’t think we should be fooled by the Republican Party dragging their feet on “repealing and replacing” Obamacare. The political environment for a Obamacare replacement plan will be very different in early summer.
and we’ll be judged in the election less than two years away.”
Self preservation…
Just remember - early voting in 2018 begins in about 20 months…
GOPers fret while people die.
Nut job Repubs are learning that legislating is hard, obstruction was easy. If they can learn, that is.
You forget the end of that sentiment: because anything is better than helping the others.
More proof: These guys can hire professionals to run political campaigns, and even win. But left to their own devices they couldn’t plan a pancake breakfast.
ETA: On the other hand I do believe they could organize a yard sale … of other people’s property.
I see what you did there…