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(127,312 posts)Wintryjade
(814 posts)Azathoth
(4,603 posts)The GOP can't enact any more legislative sabotage. However, the damage they did getting rid of the mandate is already done, and Trump can still do a lot of damage through HHS waivers/regulations/etc.
So the ACA isn't dead, but it's not going to be healthy until the orange shitstain is out of office.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)that can let a state effectively opt-out of many parts.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)they can stop any repeal bill from passing in the House.
W_HAMILTON
(7,813 posts)Without the House, the Republicans can't repeal it -- period.
There may be some worry about the court case involving preexisting conditions, but if the Supreme Court overturned protections for those with preexisting conditions, Republicans would get destroyed in 2020. Even if the Supreme Court ruled that way, I'm guessing the Democratic House would immediately put forth a bill protecting those with preexisting conditions and the Republican Senate would most likely be forced to take it up and pass it, if just to protect Republicans in 2020.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)will suffer a thousand cuts, including ones that have already been inflicted. It seems to be in a death spiral, the only thing that tonight's results mean is that the spiral will take longer to get to the ultimate conclusion.
The ACA was passed by a cobbled-together group of Democratic Representatives and Senators, and required ongoing support from a Congress that had an interest in seeing it continue. That vanished when Repukes got control of the Congress, and was confirmed by Trump, who would do anything in his executive power to vanquish it.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Absolutely nothing, will pass both houses of Congress, for the next two years. Guaranteed.
However, anything that needs Senate confirmation only (like Cabinet officials and judges) will get through. I'm an atheist, but for my friends here who are religious, pray for the health of Justice Ginsberg.