Are we ready to call it #Trumpcare, yet?
“I’m going to make you a promise, you heard the President say it and give direction to the Congress, and it’s just going to start happening in just a few days. We’re gonna repeal Obamacare once and for all and eliminate all its mandates and taxes and intrusion into your personal lives and into the lives of your business.” – Mike Pence, four days ago.
“Whatever challenges we face today, we’re going to stay in the promise-keeping business.” – Mike Pence, four days ago.
The House has released their plan for replacing Obamacare, and if you were expecting some kind of full repeal like what every Republican in the galaxy has been promising for the last thousand years, forget it. This isn’t that.
On Twitter, RedState’s Joe Cunningham dispels the “repeal” notion right away, based just on the actual language.
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The very first thing - THE FIRST THING - we were told is that we're going to REPEAL and REPLACE. The new law itself starts with "amends."
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As in, it AMENDS the Obamacare. Which is not what Republican voters have been promised all this time, now is it?
8:03 AM - 7 Mar 2017
On Monday night,
streiff posted when the news broke that the new bill was out, and on Tuesday morning, folks are reviewing the provisions and, from the conservative right, the reviews are
not good.
Phil Klein, writing at
The Washington Examiner,
explains the scenario we now face:
Barring radical changes [to the proposed legislation], Republicans will not be passing a bill that ushers in a new era of market-based healthcare. In reality, the GOP will either be passing legislation that rests on the same philosophical premise as Obamacare, or will pass nothing at all, and thus keep Obamacare itself in place.
Well that’s just great, isn’t it? Promise-keeping, Mr. Vice-President?
More from Klein:
… the GOP bill preserves much of the regulatory structure of Obamacare; leaves the bias in favor of employer healthcare largely intact; replaces Obamacare’s subsidies with a different subsidy scheme; and still supports higher spending for Medicaid relative to what was the case before Obamacare.
:kobehaha:
i hope this is a disaster 
