Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Repeal and Delay: Political Procrastination (C10-1)

      Down boy! Take it easy!
Republican Congressmen are just so eager to repeal back the layers of ObamaCare that they decided it's gonna happen! Now! 
Wait, but what about the 20 million people on ObamaCare? What about the public health and safety of having a system in place to take over ObamaCare? 
Like every good student knows, there is only one thing to do.

Do it later.

Repeal and Delay is essentially repealing ObamaCare today and having the effects wear off in a couple of years. However, this could be a more drawn out process than expected. The affordable care act has layers upon layers that, really, only democrats have a firm understanding of. 
Could the help of democrats be brought in to help assist? Highly unlikely, more likely is that they're enjoying watching Republicans squirm after 8 years of backseat driving and NOT writing a replacement to ObamaCare.

The wildcard is, as it always will be, Trump. How will he react? Partisan? Rebel? Tweets?
Well, I believe he's trying to remain semi partisan but is trying desperately to dust off the cobwebs on the Congress Republicans and get their legislative hands going. 
However, if republicans can't get their act together with a replacement, they may just have to fill in the holes of ObamaCare, giving it a republican zest! Maybe have some private business supplementing insurance with the government. 
There are opportunities for the Republicans. It is just time to wake the conservative beast. 


 

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