Why is it so hard for Republicans to pass a health-care bill?

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Almost every Republican in Congress can agree with what House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said earlier this week: It's really, really important they pass a health-care bill as soon as possible.

“I think it's probably the most, it's the biggest signature issue we have,” Ryan told “Fox & Friends.” “And it's the biggest promise we've ever made in the modern era. We said if we get elected, we will repeal and replace Obamacare.”

Which raises the question: Why can't they do it? “It’s sad, in a way,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told my colleagues at The Washington Post. “We control all three branches and yet we’re not interested or able to do what we’ve pledged.”

I've been following this closely and speaking with nonpartisan health-care policy experts and political observers throughout the tumultuous process. I've come up with a few, not mutually exclusive theories as to why it's really, really hard for Republicans to actually pass a health-care bill even though they all want to.

1) They underestimated how hard stopping a social program in its tracks would be

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2) They underestimated how ideologically varied their party has become

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3) They're trying to do it without Democrats

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4) They don't have a president they can rely on

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-why-is-it-so-hard-for-republicans-to-pass-a-health-care-bill/ar-BBDstuy?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

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1. 5) They don't want to pass a healthcare bill, only repeal the one in place.

[Warpy]

2. Why is it so hard to get a GOP health care bill? BECAUSE THEY DON'T

CARE ABOUT HEALTH CARE!" This is about tax cuts and another huge wealth transfer to billionaires, nothing more.

[Thinkingabout]

3. They do not have the ability to govern, as proven in the number of times they voted to repeal ACA

but never reforming the problems they saw with ACA. They know how to obstruct but do not know how to construct.

[dweller]

4. they don't have a f'n clue

about the constituents that elected them to represent them ... the typical repig is only concerned with 'me me me'

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5. they have trained themselves in the art of derailing legislation, not crafting it.

not only have they built their careers on not passing legislation, they and their cronies in their home state have built themselves highly partisan, gerrymandered districts and an extremely angry and inflexible constituency.

after years of refusing to compromise with democrats, they lost the ability to compromise among themselves.


they can't stand the thought of not fully repealing the taxes on the rich.
they can't stand the thought of not repealing obamacare
they can't stand the thought of having any government program help people
and they can't stomach the inevitable result of millions of pissed off constituents.

what they want is impossible without all their factions giving something up.

but they no longer know how.

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6. The only difficulty they have is figuring how many people to screw

for a tax cut for the rich.

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7. They're waiting for the wizard to give them a heart.

[Skittles]

8. the biggest reason is, it has nothing to do with health care

they DO.NOT.CARE.