Schwab: GOP plan to replace ACA guarantees us liberty and death
Freedom’s just another word for no health left to lose. So says Doctor Republican Congressman Michael Burgess of Texas, regarding numbers of people with health care coverage: “If the numbers drop, I would say that’s a good thing, because we’ve restored personal liberty in this country.”
Wow. And lest you think the Republican plan for replacing the Affordable Care Act is right around the corner, President Trump has had an epiphany: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” quoth he.
The statements provide clarity regarding Congress and our occupant of the Gold House, the latter of whom has repeatedly, if without specifics, called the ACA a “disaster,” falsely promising to end it on “day one”; and the former of which spent the last seven years voting fifty-five times to repeal it.
That they’re only now discovering Obamacare is the opposite of a disaster for many millions of Americans, and replacing is harder than repealing, reveals much about our Congressional majority and their ability to govern. Legislating, evidently, isn’t like riding a bicycle: when you spend eight years blocking instead of producing, you stop knowing how.
“Nobody knew.” Well, it’s undeniably true of Trump and those with whom he’s surrounded himself, and of the legislative bodies over which he holds apparently unlimited sway. Applied to those who wrote the original bill, though, and to the president who oversaw the process, it’s demonstrably false. Seven years ago, in fact, President Obama said, “The truth of the matter is that health care is very complicated.” That unstartling insight is shared by most people capable of thoughts of more than 140 characters, and by anyone who’s addressed the subject seriously.
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