What have we learned from the failure of the\u00c2\u00a0AHCA, the GOP’s attempt \u00c2\u00a0to supposedly “repeal and replace” Obama’s ACA?<\/p>\n
The most obvious takeaway\u00c2\u00a0is that Trump doesn’t care about his campaign promises. He promised something better than Obamacare, but instead supported a bill that would result in fewer Americans having healthcare and higher costs for those who did have\u00c2\u00a0it under the ACA.<\/p>\n
We learned that Paul Ryan is not a serious policy wonk who can create acceptable policy; he\u00c2\u00a0cobbled together a bill so wretched that he couldn’t even bring it to a vote, for fear of an even greater humiliation than he\u00c2\u00a0did endure.<\/p>\n
We learned that, in fact, most people do want Obamacare, which is why so many congressional Republicans\u00c2\u00a0opposed the so-called “repeal and replace” bill they were offered by Ryan. That’s not to say Americans don’t see problems with the the current law, but they want it improved, not destroyed. Everyone saw that\u00c2\u00a0Ryan’s bill was no improvement.<\/p>\n
We learned that Republicans are good at getting elected, but very, very bad at governing. Trump showed little sign of knowing what was in the bill. Ryan seemed to have no idea what his own party members would accept. The Republican Congress as a whole\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c which was great at stopping Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u201c can’t agree among themselves how to actually replace something they spent 7 years trying to destroy.<\/p>\n
Finally, we saw that the GOP leadership was willing to sell out Americans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 24 to 56 million Americans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to give tax breaks to the wealthy. Remember that as you watch the coming debate on tax reform \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or should I say “tax reform.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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