The G.O.P. Campaign to Destroy Obamacare Hits a Wall.

[elleng]

' Congress’s rush to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, once seemingly unstoppable, is flagging badly as Republicans struggle to come up with a replacement and a key senator has declared that the effort is more a repair job than a demolition.

“It is more accurate to say ‘repair Obamacare,’” Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and chairman of the Senate health committee, said this week. “We can repair the individual market, and that is a good place to start.”

The struggles and false starts have injected more uncertainty into insurance markets that thrive on stability. Republican leaders who once saw a health law repeal as a quick first strike in the Trump era now must at least consider a worst case: unable to move forward with comprehensive health legislation, even as the uncertainty that they helped foster rattles consumers and insurers.

Insurers are threatening to exit the Affordable Care Act’s market unless the Trump administration and Congress can quickly clarify their intentions: Will they support the existing public marketplaces, encourage people to sign up and keep federal assistance flowing to insurers, or not?'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/the-campaign-to-destroy-obamacare-hits-a-wall.html?

[procon]

1. Fools, they've got the tiger by the tail and still no plan to avoid being eaten alive. nt

[guillaumeb]

2. And Insurance Companies are big contributors to both parties.

The GOP much prefers principal to principle.

[Bill USA]

5. "the GOP much prefers principal to principle"!!!! exquisite!

Can I use that?

[guillaumeb]

6. I would use it.

Feel free to spread it around.

[Me.]

3. "the uncertainty that they helped foster"

Helped Foster? Just who else fostered it?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. The thing about Lamar....

If I were his mother, I would agree with the theories that he had been dropped ( perhaps repeatedly) on his wee head as a babe, because that would stifle any conjecture that it was a congenital family defect.