The fantastically under-reported reason that the GOP is struggling to find traction or indeed direction viz. undoing Obamacare, is that Obamacare as delivered represented a mostly fulfilled GOP wish list.
As a progressive, I would say: concessions to essentially print money were extracted at gun point from Dems willing to sacrifice much to pass a bill achieving specific key planks (namely the removal of 'preexisting conditions' and a strong step towards universal coverage).
The GOP walked with a bill they largely wrote. There is little left to want, other than yet more consolidation of wealth... and the roll-back of extremely popular benefits.
Watching this break into the open provides very cold comfort.
Funding _source_ notwithstanding, bills are paid to for-profit providers with limited exception (the VA being the main one).
Price caps are calculated as a function of the largely unrestrained market gouging of the oligopoly.
If you think that's a biased or histrionic description, consider this:
https://www.wallstreetdaily.com/charts/0715_HealthcareInsura...
Stunning growth in profits under Obamacare...
The fantastically under-reported reason that the GOP is struggling to find traction or indeed direction viz. undoing Obamacare, is that Obamacare as delivered represented a mostly fulfilled GOP wish list.
As a progressive, I would say: concessions to essentially print money were extracted at gun point from Dems willing to sacrifice much to pass a bill achieving specific key planks (namely the removal of 'preexisting conditions' and a strong step towards universal coverage).
The GOP walked with a bill they largely wrote. There is little left to want, other than yet more consolidation of wealth... and the roll-back of extremely popular benefits.
Watching this break into the open provides very cold comfort.