Dems may well rue the day they stopped the ACHA

Yesterday was a lose-lose for DC politicians. The GOP lost because its leadership was shown to be feckless. Failure to reel in Mark Meadows and other short-slght nitwits of the Freedom Caucus is simply inexcusable.

However in the end, Dems will prove to be the real losers here. Obamacare is a mess. It was designed to fail. Its failure was to serve as a bridge to Government Mandate Socialized Medicine.

Well, fail it will. Trump will see to it that. But now when it does, the response will be to simply repeal it.

Here is lay-of-the-land as I see it. As Obamacare spirals downward, policy costs will continue to escalate, carrier choices will continue to diminish. Dems will scream for more funding. They won't get it. They will scream the GOP is undercutting obamacare. They will be right. But it is their baby. They own it.

Final full-out failure will come as numbers of counties/regions find themselves with no carrier choice at all. The public will demand a fix.

Trump and GOPers will point out that attempted replacement with Obamacare Lite, which preserved most of the goodies Dems claim to want, got stuffed by Dems. They will claim replacement is not an option.

They will say "We've been there, done that. We won't revisit it. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wouldn't support replacement, so we are left with stand-alone repeal as the only option." Trump will say "I told you so."

Obamacare will be repealed. We will simply return to preobamacare insurance legislation. Reforms to actually address healthcare costs rather than coverage costs will be made from there. That is actually the best long-term outcome the GOP could have ever hoped for.

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IMO, significant swaths of the public still view this as a game. The view is obamacare really isn't failing. Its all political. As it actually does fail, they will get slapped in the face with the cold hand of reality.

By allowing passage of a problematic obamacare lite bill, Dems could have had their cake and eaten it too. Benefits would still be there. But driven by a continual drone of Dem criticism, the public, still not fully convinced obamacare was imploding, would have blamed the GOP for every pitfall in the ACHA.