- 14 Jan 2017 15:25
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Watching the Republicans stumble all over themselves to repeal Obamacare and, concurrently, stumble into a quagmire is almost going to be fun. Repealing the law will be fairly easy. Replacing it? There will most likely be no replacement or at best (at worst) a replacement that is such an obvious sham that even trump supporters will see it as a sham.
Why? The American medical industry is a remarkably complex entity with a multitude of big money players competing for ................ big money. Republican lawmakers attempting to craft a new law will be swarmed by a cluster fuck of lobbiests all grasping for $$. The #2 reason there will be no meaningful replacement is that 60 senate votes are required to pass a new law. Republicans who have been wetting their pants over their opportunity to freeze out and fuck Democrats cannot expect a whole lot of cooperation from Democrats.
Now, quagmire part 2. Let's say the Republicans are able to cobble together a "replacement". Since their primary goal was to repeal the Obamacare tax on rich folks, there will be little or no $$ available for their "replacement". Therefore anybody covered by their pretend insurance will find themselves paying double or triple what they paid for health care under Obamacare.
The outcome? Republicans now own millions of uninsured/underinsured VOTERS which could very well result in their primary fear coming true: a loss of power.
They will, predictably, try to bullshit their way out of it. Their Great Orange Leader's jaws will be flapping mightily. He may just pull it off with his bottomless kit bag of lies. But, as he well knows, money talks and bullshit walks. As those who voted for him get sicker, die and go bankrupt he may finally become ........ unbelievable.
Why? The American medical industry is a remarkably complex entity with a multitude of big money players competing for ................ big money. Republican lawmakers attempting to craft a new law will be swarmed by a cluster fuck of lobbiests all grasping for $$. The #2 reason there will be no meaningful replacement is that 60 senate votes are required to pass a new law. Republicans who have been wetting their pants over their opportunity to freeze out and fuck Democrats cannot expect a whole lot of cooperation from Democrats.
Now, quagmire part 2. Let's say the Republicans are able to cobble together a "replacement". Since their primary goal was to repeal the Obamacare tax on rich folks, there will be little or no $$ available for their "replacement". Therefore anybody covered by their pretend insurance will find themselves paying double or triple what they paid for health care under Obamacare.
The outcome? Republicans now own millions of uninsured/underinsured VOTERS which could very well result in their primary fear coming true: a loss of power.
They will, predictably, try to bullshit their way out of it. Their Great Orange Leader's jaws will be flapping mightily. He may just pull it off with his bottomless kit bag of lies. But, as he well knows, money talks and bullshit walks. As those who voted for him get sicker, die and go bankrupt he may finally become ........ unbelievable.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897