re: It's easy to pick on powerless immigrants and refugees, but where's the meat?

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ACA is the one that is disappointing. Bill Casssidy ran on the "I have a plan" to replace ACA and I don't see jack.

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Trusting people like Cassidy, Trump, Price, Ryan and other politicians that they have the answer has always been a mistake. They said what polls well and what people wanted to hear. They don't and never did have solutions lined up that matched their rhetoric with realistic results. At least not when it comes to what they say will be achieved with what their plans/ideas actually do. And the few places where they have gave realistic fixes(Trump on re-importation and letting Medicare negotiate drugs prices) Trump has silently abandoned due to industry pressures.

54 times Republicans tried to pass repeal bills or so called "fixes" to Obamacare when Obama was president. Right up until the end. Now that they don't have the shield of the presidents veto it is crickets on that front. That should of signaled to any reasonable person that they were playing games and shouldn't be trusted.

Any Republican that decries the evils of Obamacare's growth of high deductible plans and promises to "fix it" should immediately lose their credibility on the topic until further notice. Not only do all of their plans not fix this, many, like Price's plan, doubles down on high-deductible plans as a major feature. Based on the assumption, that the evidence so far does not bear out, that forcing people to spend more out-of-pocket will make them better healthcare consumers and bring down prices. When in reality it does reduce spending on the consumer end, but only because people forgo treatment, not because they shop around and it has driven prices down. That is just one example where the rhetoric(Obamacares evil high-deductible plans are killing families and we will fix it) does not match reality(high deductible plans are a feature, not a bug. I will expand them to government programs and let insurers feature them even more prominently).