I still do not see why Republicans won’t vote for this? They pass it in the house and it goes to the senate who then need to debate this. Once they pass it doesn’t it go to conference so they can put a single bill before the President?
At that point the President can say it sucks and they need to fix it before he signs it. Frankly, if Republicans are worrying about what their constituents are going to say prior to this getting to the President’s desk, then they probably resign and find something else to do. After all, it will be the President who gives them cover in 2018.
1. politicials are stupid. seriously stupid. intelligence is an exception. If you ever had gone to DC and met enough of them, you would be shocked at how low their iq power goes.
2. The reality is we have purists in the peanut gallery who want laws passed as pure as the driven snow and carried to the president’s desk on the wings of angels. In the real world laws are made by compromise (ben franklin) you NEVER get all you want. Incrimentalism is the procedure of DC. It is the difference between being soon forgotten political roadkill and driving over the bodies of roadkill.
3. those that deny political reality might as well be demanding DC pass laws promising free unicorns.
“I still do not see why Republicans won’t vote for this”
How about because it is socialized medicine, and we need a free market?
I’ve read through the draft and would say that that (1) there’s no indication that I can see that it would lessen the cost spiral, and (2) that it does not serve as some long-term solution. It’s simply a marginal way to say they undid the Obama program, and lays us on the path to single-payer in the end.
I think half of the GOP figured that out and asked why bother voting on some fraudulent bill with no real long-term solution.
I look at Ryan and the GOP leadership. They had seven years to craft a workable plan. It’s been mostly all a lie. There’s a number of Republicans who need to retire and move out of DC. They aren’t going to be part of the future.