Why the AHCA Failed

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This article is worth a full read. It takes no prisoners. It shows how uninterested in true governance Republicans currently are:

There was a conspicuous smallness to this AHCA effort, a puzzling shoddiness given the human and political stakes. Many in the GOP, above all President Trump, seemed strangely uninterested in the policy details. To the extent Republicans did have an animating passion, it was to puncture President Obama’s legacy—and to avoid looking foolish by failing to honor their “repeal and replace” rhetoric.

Only they had no viable replacement. For all their endless warnings about how Obama’s signature health law was hurting American families, driving up costs and putting us on the path toward socialism, it turns out they didn’t care enough to put in the work.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/paul-ryan-failed-because-his-bill-was-a-dumpster-fire-214952

[Warpy]

1. The answer is obvious, the current Republicans don't do policy, they only do SPITE

and they rushed to get a repeal done on the 7th anniversary of the ACA's passage. They are largely symbolic thinkers and the symbolism of this is unmistakable. Failing to achieve a vote on that day, withdrawal of this hastily cobbled together botch of a "health plan" should have been a foregone conclusion.

The fact that it was pushed as a budget blll was especially telling, it was a tax cut for rich donors and a slap in the face to our first black president, nothing more. They had no intention of providing anything but those two things.

Consider that they tried to kill the plan for seven full years and over multiple failed votes. During that seven years, none of them bothered to come up with an alternative plan, only to kill the one we got. Even the few Republicans who are actually concerned with policy were uninterested in health policy.

This author, like most conservative authors, is trying. However, he's missed the essential nature of this whole fiasco.

[PsychoBabble]

3. Your budget bill point is a good one

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2. It will be the same with immigration, tax reform, in equality infrastructure...they don't have the

basic underlying policies that will work for the 90% so they will be left with bluster and threats and polarization.