A political disaster is looming for Republicans on health care

[Zorro]

It seems like ages ago now, but just a few months ago Democrats were engaged in an intense and often bitter argument about precisely what kind of health-care reform the federal government should undertake if a Democratic president and Congress are elected this November. Lately most Americans have been far too consumed with the pandemic and the recession to think about reform that might or might happen in the future — which is just fine with Republicans.

But they won’t be able to keep the issue out of people’s minds for long. Two things will put it back on the agenda. First, as we approach November, Democrats all over the country will be airing ads and sending out mailers about health care, most of which will focus not on the nuances of reform but on the villainy of the GOP.

And second, the issue could come back to the Supreme Court just before the election, casting a new light on the destruction Republicans are trying to bring down on the American health-care system.

This is, to put mildly, not an opportune time for a party to be arguing for tossing 20 million or so people off their health coverage, eliminating protections for preexisting conditions, and throwing the entire health-care system into chaos.

But that is what the GOP advocates: The latest of Republicans' many lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act seeks to have the entire law struck down, which would not only obliterate an entire regulatory structure with nothing to replace it but would also snatch coverage away from all those who benefited from the expansion of Medicaid and take away subsidies that help those on the individual market afford private coverage.

And incredibly, a decade after they made “repeal and replace” their health-care mantra, Republicans still have no replacement plan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/political-disaster-is-looming-republicans-health-care/

Republicans never had a replacement plan. That has been obvious from the start.

[jorgevlorgan]

1. not just healthcare.

They are endanger of being completely replaced by the Democrats as the center right party.

[lagomorph777]

4. The Democrats are already the center right; I hope we can improve on that.

The RePutins occupy the extreme far right.

[jorgevlorgan]

6. right? lol

Hopefully the Republicans can just go away soon. Justice Democrats might get big enough to make their own party soon.

[lark]

2. Repug replacement plan details below.

Workers are lucky to have jobs at all, they can pay full price if they want services, they are just slackers wanting government handouts and we don't believe in socialism.

Rich get cadillac plans from their companies where they have no out of pocket cost because they deserve it, they are job makers and fund our elections

No job, too bad for you, is there a church that might help you because we sure don''t care.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Donald Trump Says He'll Have His Own Obamacare 'Replacement' Plan Soon 01/11/2017

Donald Trump Says He’ll Have His Own Obamacare ‘Replacement’ Plan Soon

01/11/2017 02:25 pm ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-replacement-plan-soon_us_58766aa3e4b092a6cae46c6f

"At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, president-elect Donald Trump said he will release his own plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act shortly after taking office. What he didn’t say is what that plan will be or how it will work."

[lagomorph777]

5. Hundreds of thousands dying in a medical emergency. Great time to kill medical care.