the obamacare repeal debacle

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the obamacare repeal debacle

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By: William Murchison | August 02, 2017

What do we take away, then, from the earthquake on the Senate floor last week, with wisps of smoke still rising from the ruins of Republican efforts to do something—anything—likely to rationalize the health care mess?

We take away, or should, the lesson that government can't do everything, and when it tries to, you get something approximating Obamacare: too big and complex to succeed, unless you redefine success to mean: "We're getting there, OK?"

Well, no. It's not OK at all. At the center of national attention, currently, are the Republicans' busted plays. Repeal and replace? Nope. Just repeal? Nope. Hail-Mary-full-of-grace-and-a-"skinny"-repeal? Not even that.

The varied and competing interests that circled the Republican side of the Senate—biting, nibbling, pushing, shoving—deserve conspicuously less attention than does the genuine problem to which the party was unsteadily addressing itself. That problem is one of means and feasibility. In passing Obamacare, we—I mean, the Democrats, who passed the thing all by themselves, with no Republican votes—bit off more than they can chew.    

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Not only is repeal dead, some Congressional Republicans have started working with Dems to ‘save’ Oba

By Robert Laurie

Make no mistake.  If it’s left to function as it was designed to function, ObamaCare WILL implode.  It’s not a matter of “if” it’s a matter of “when.” There’s no ‘fix’ that will stop this, either.  There are a few things that can be done to help the law limp along - at an increased expense to taxpayers - but there’s no permanent remedy.