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Beyond Canada => American Politics => Topic started by: ?Impact on March 24, 2017, 03:52:54 pm
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The Republicans spent the past 7 years whining and complaining about the Affordable Health Care for America Act (Obamacare). You would think that in those 7 years they could at least get their own act together and come up with a replacement that they could agree on among themselves. The TrumpCare bill could not bolster the support among Republicans so they pulled it just before the vote.
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Apparently Obamacare will live on for some time. Oh well?
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And the blame game begins. First off, the Democrats.. Never mind that the Republicans have control of the House and Senate.
Trump doesn't care about Obamacare. He's pissed that he was talked into tackling this bill so early in his Administration. Heads will roll.
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Yeah, what happened to the "master deal maker" who was going to "win so much, American's will be tired of winning"? Trump must be really PO'ed as he's not even going to jump in Air Force 1 and go play golf in Florida this weekend. tsk, tsk.
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Yeah - it's really too bad that the Democrats couldn't come to some compromise that would help Donald Trump to repeal the program they worked for months to pass.
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They forgot the "replace" part of their "repeal and replace" mantra for the last 7 years.
To be fair, "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."
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There was a widespread consensus among analysts that the new bill was a total **** disaster. So I guess the "Freedom Caucus" saved the day! They are waiting for an even more awful healthcare bill to come along before they'll support it.
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Well there will be at least 24 million Americans who are covered by ACA who will be breathing a little easier today. Although I am sure they ca still see lots of dark clouds on the horizon as the Tea Party regroups.
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They forgot the "replace" part of their "repeal and replace" mantra for the last 7 years.
To be fair, "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."
The Republicans have NEVER had any ideas about what to replace Obamacare with. Neither has Trump. That was patently obvious to all but the biggest idiots in the election. How do you wind up with a way better health care bill that would be much cheaper? Not possible!
John Boehner said that the Republican party had never managed to reach any kind of consensus on what health care should look like in his 25 years on the hill. The idea they'd be able to reach that consensus with the Tea Party as part of their ranks was always extremely unlikely. Most of them are in gerrymandered districts where they don't have to care what the voters think. The Republicans NOT in gerrymandered districts had a lot more fears of what pulling away health care coverage for tens of millions of people would do to their electoral hopes.
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Trump doesn't care about Obamacare. He's pissed that he was talked into tackling this bill so early in his Administration.
Well, it was one of his election promises, that he'd bring in (or at least demand) that that he'd get Congress to make up a bill on his first day in office.