You are drifting rather far afield because the filibuster has nothing to do with this. The Senate is using reconciliation to vote on this, so all they need is 50 senators plus Pence to vote for it. They certainly don't have that if their bill is a near mirror image of the House bill.
This is going to be a train wreck. The Republicans have been making promises - lower premiums, better coverage, more choices, pre-existing conditions covered - that they can't keep. Trumpcare will do un to them what Obamacare did to the Democrats.
>>You are drifting rather far afield because the filibuster has nothing to do with this. <<
Which is why I said I was going off-topic for a bit.
>>This is going to be a train wreck. The Republicans have been making promises - lower premiums, better coverage, more choices, pre-existing conditions covered - that they can’t keep. <<
Actually, they should be relatively easy to keep, in my opinion. Certainly, if we just go back to pre-Obamacare, we’ll have lower premiums and more choices. I don’t think the GOP can possibly offer “better coverage” because Obamacare offered it all, but at a prohibitive cost, but if “better coverage” means getting what you want at a more reasonable price, they can do it.
It’s the pre-existing conditions that are perceived to be the problem, but that’s just perception. Ultimately, an ongoing insurance marketplace will have to cover pre-existing conditions. If you take out insurance and keep paying the premiums your insurance should cover whatever conditions you develop. The next year, when you pay your premiums again, your existing conditions will logically be covered.
The problem is how to include those with pre-existing conditions at the outset. We’re not talking about a lot of people here, since most people are already covered in existing plans. Obamacare did it wrong by seeking to overcharge the young. The GOP could do it right by establishing temporary risk pools to cover those not insured today but who have pre-existing conditions. As those people move out of the pools (by dying, getting a job with insurance, going on Medicare at 65, or becoming healthy again) the pools will diminish in size along with the cost of maintaining them.
At least that’s how I see it.