New push to replace Obamacare reignites old GOP tensions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republicans on Capitol Hill are already laying the groundwork for a rapid repeal of President Obama’s signature health-care law beginning on the first day of the new Congress, before President-elect Donald Trump is even sworn in.

But the urgent efforts to make good on a Republican campaign promise six years in the making obscure major GOP divisions over what exactly to replace Obamacare with and how to go about it, and how long a transition period to allow before the law’s insurance would go away.

Hard-liners are pushing to move as fast as possible, bolstered by a GOP base eager to see lawmakers follow through on years of promises. But key congressional leaders are keenly concerned about potentially throwing millions off their insurance plans and repeating what they have long decried as Democratic missteps eight years ago, sparking a fierce political backlash by moving too far, too fast.

While Trump could sign legislation gutting the Affordable Care Act before the spring bloom, a full replacement could take months, if not years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-push-to-replace-obamacare-reignites-old-gop-tensions/2016/12/11/b460b5cc-be3a-11e6-ac85-094a21c44abc_story.html?utm_term=.0cc605de5518&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments

In other words they really don't know what the fuck they're doing.

[flamingdem]

1. I'm not convinced that their incompetence will save us short term

I'm not even convinced there is much tension.

They are pretty much all thieves and liars. They don't care about the poor and the relatively small numbers of individual middle class subscribers on Obamacare plans.

For one thing the poor don't vote sufficiently to hurt them.

[still_one]

2. The problem they have is that the ACA actually came from the Heritage Foundation,

and was the model used in Mass by Romney

I suspect that was the strategy of the Obama administration, since they knew they didn't have the votes for Single Payer. What Obama didn't count on was that the republican party is now populated by a large number of racist f**ks.

Even Ryan's off the cuff bullshit regarding Medicare, is just a variation of the ACA, except much worse, and a lot of people would be hurt by that