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CAMERON JOSEPH Published JULY 31, 2017 6:00 AM
Tierney Sneed contributed reporting.
Still dazed from the spectacular collapse of their efforts to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are now confronted with the question of whether theyll seek to help Americans in states where insurers are pulling out of the individual marketplaces and premiums are rising without trying to gut the program.
Until now, most Republicans have been happy to watch some state-level individual health insurance exchanges sputter along, using those struggles as their main talking point for how Obamacare is failing under its own weight as the Trump administration exacerbated some of the exchanges problems.
They assumed theyd be able to execute a broader policy change rather than worry about shoring up the markets. But after admitting defeat (at least for now) on a broad overhaul of the law, Republicans are beginning to come to grips with what to do going forward.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/after-obamacare-repeal-collapse-gop-weighs-whether-to-help-state-health-exchange-markets
They still want to block grant the measure, this could be fixed by removing the "Marco Rubio" and his Risk Corridors Rider and then bring on Medicare for all, or single payer, for competition, but it's still about tax breaks for not only the millionaires in both the house and Senate, but the Koch's and Devos, and Sinclair group
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(24,631 posts)other benefits, that you and I have paid since most of us started working at part-time to full time bases.
They don't care, and as soon as Mary and Herman in Tennessee wake up to this fact, they are screwed, with this "guy" and his minions running this disaster clown show
Zambero
(8,954 posts)Do they want to own the "implosion" as deliberate saboteurs in line with Trump's threats, or could they claim have "rescued" ACA by advancing favorable policies to shore up exchange markets, expanding Medicaid assistance to all 50 states, instituting a public option, negotiating for lower cost Rx medications, etc. Of course, the GOP could do immeasurable harm to their constituents and at the same time shoot themselves in the foot politically by following Trump's nihilistic lead. OR, they could come to grips with their recent failure and do the right thing on a bipartisan basis. We're talking about Republicans here, replete with the radical slash and burn Freedom Caucus element, so nothing that would make perfect sense is a given.