After seven horrible years of ObamaCare (skyrocketing premiums & deductibles, bad healthcare), this is finally your chance for a great plan!
Donald J. Trump, Twitter
I disagree. This was only the first chance. It is inevitable, if Obamacare collapses as predicted, that another chance will come. This was not a great plan. A great plan would be no plan at all. Government would withdraw itself completely and let health insurance work like car insurance or life insurance. There is no 'great plan' from the federal government for those but they work a lot better than the Unaffordable Care Act.
Trump states that this is just phase one. Dangerous. Passing a bad bill - which this is - and hoping to improve it later is fraught with peril. Obamacare had similar plans and that didn't work out well.
I remain baffled as to why the House and Senate didn't just dust off the last repeal bill that Obama vetoed and send it to Trump. Simple. That they did not is why I am very distrustful of Republicans. They knew Obama would veto but they could show the voters that they tried. Now that it will get signed, they do this Obamacare Lite foolishness.
Though this is currently a setback and embarrassment, it may be beneficial in the long run. The ACA is in a death spiral and all Republican efforts to save it have failed. Thus, the collapse should fall on the builders (Obama, Reid, and Pelosi) though I doubt the media will report it that way.
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