The people who believe everything Trump says will believe that, no doubt. But for everyone else, it's ridiculous. Trump has constantly promised that he had a wonderful plan for health insurance, and said back in January that it was "formulated down to the final strokes." The fact that he can't get the House's massive Republican majority to even vote on that supposedly wonderful plan is somehow the Democrats' fault? Not only that - now that he's openly announced that he's going to just use the "collapse" of Obamacare to pressure the Democrats for policy concessions, it will be widely assumed that continued shortcomings of the post-ACA health system are linked to Trump's deliberate efforts to undermine it.
My impression from what Ryan is saying is that this isn't a temporary retreat. It's this whole approach to repeal is kaput. If something is done on this front again in the future, it'll be a totally different approach. In other words, they'd start over.
Build the wall, reinforce military, tax reform, blah blah blah. More stuff to cringe upon. Thanks Paul Ryan. What a ********ing disaster.
Every single Democratic politician needs to hammer home to the public that the Republicans had SEVEN years to come up with a plan and the plan they introduced had 17% support across the country, and if the Republicans had SEVEN years to get something done and couldn't keep their promise, how can the public be assured that they can get anything accomplished in a shorter amount of time?
Thats what Kellyanne said to Spicy last night... LONG LIVE OBAMACARE! maybe Trump can use it after he's impeached.
They're going to sabotage it until it collapses. They've already started that by not enforcing the mandate
The flaw is, their tax breaks for the rich were tied to the repeal of the ACA. With that off the table, they can't cut taxes on the rich without raising them on everyone else, because any bill that raises the deficit can't get past a Senate filibuster. So this has a chance to be a cascading failure...they didn't pass ACA repeal, so they can't do tax reform.
Ryan cites Risk pool as a way to keep costs down for elderly...which is the exact opposite of what would happen
He did. The context was negative in that he was saying we were going to live with a disaster for the foreseeable future. Basically, they're done until some sort of "collapse"
This was a really bad hill for the Republicans to die on. If they attempt to let this die and people are threatened with losing health care, they will continue to lash out against the Republicans. They're only shooting themselves in the foot with any of this.
It's interesting to think about how the Republicans' thorny political bind would largely disappear if they sincerely wanted to improve health care in the US. I mean, imagine if they simply switched their question to "how can we make the health care system more cost-efficient and produce better outcomes?" - as opposed to "how can we give rich people a huge tax cut, appear to justify the Obamacare hatred we've cultivated for years, and avoid negative political consequences from the humanitarian harm we cause in the process?" Just like that, much of their problem would go away. And yet, they can't make that switch.
It's comical, the extent to which they are now getting crushed in the avalanche from Bullshit Mountain. They actually believe their own facile marketing. Now that they have power, they can't survive contact with reality. I'm sincerely gobsmacked, not that they ********ed up, but that they ********ed up so comprehensively. It's like when the Polish cavalry charged the Panzers in the opening days of WW II.
If they said tommorow - "we want to make ACA better for everyone", there's not a Democrat who would say no to that process. Have a real legislative process and you'd get somewhere
Costa on MSNBC: Trump says bill won’t be coming back in near future & he’ll see if the Dems want to work with him on healthcare.— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 24, 2017 It's a tweet so it doesn't go into details, but I think I would literally die laughing* if Trump did this, and he and the Dems worked out a compromise bill, and then Trump tried to get the GOPs on the Hill to give it enough votes to pass. *Unless "terminal laughing" is added as an essential benefit.
Like I wrote earlier, Paul Ryan could have a healthcare bill pass both the House and the Senate. His problem is that it would like have to be something that Democrats would support, which means that it would have to be incremental policy improvements to Obamacare, things like making the subsidies more generous and closing the hole between Medicaid and the tax subsidies in states that haven't taken the Medicaid expansion. He'd also quickly be in the same predicament as his predecessor.
They had been saying that, though, but their bill said something completely different, and the bullshit stench was so strong that they couldn't avoid the truth about how awful the bill was getting out.
He's just posturing right now, so he's not associated with the stink Ryan is giving off. If he turned his back on the Republicans, there'd be hearings by Republicans about his connections with Russia in a hot minute.
Trump tells Haberman that he's going to blame the Dems. Then he tells Costa that he's going to work with the Dems. What's this tell you? Trump is just out there bullshitting and seeing what sticks. There's no plan. Just flailing.