GOP newbie Sasse driving Obamacare off-ramp

[Geee]

Washington Times:

Freshman Sen. Ben Sasse insists he’s not a leading man in the GOP’s script to replace Obamacare, but he’s playing a key set-up role just three months into his tenure on Capitol Hill.

 

The Nebraska Republican filed legislation last week — the plainly titled “Winding Down Obamacare Act” — that would fill the gap should the U.S. Supreme Court rule the Obama administration is wrongly paying billions of dollars in tax subsidies to health care insurance customers in two-thirds of the states.

 

Along the way he’s run into the problem the GOP will face: The Affordable Care Act is now so entrenched that undoing it, even if it comes through a court decision, could kick millions of Americans out of their coverage and leave Republicans in political danger. But trying to bridge the gap opens Republicans up to criticism from their right flank, which views it as propping up Obamacare.

 

 

“Nothing that I’m proposing is a continuation of Obamacare, expansion or extension or fix,” Mr. Sasse said. “It’s transitional assistance for 6 million disrupted people, but the assistance comes entirely outside of Obamacare so that we can then have the big national conversation we need in 2016.”

 

[Valin]

The question is, assuming it passes the House & Senate (in some reasonable form), will the President sign it? I'd wage the answer is no.