re: PB: Chime in if you support GOP's Cuckcare

quote:

---

Pass this bill with some amendments for Cruz and Lee and then start there, win some more seats in the midterms and then keep chipping away at it to keep perfecting it. It's what democrats would've done and they've made an art out of that.

ObamaCare will be repealed by a thousand cuts, not a single stab in the gut.

---

I concur.

I haven't looked into the details of the McConnell bill yet, but I've posted before about the reasons why I supported passing Ryan's AHCA as part of the larger 3-phase strategy.

I'll also add a few new points here:

#1. You can only do so much with a reconciliation process that doesn't allow significant budget changes.

#2. It would be a political disaster for the Republicans not to repeal the individual mandate and other parts of ObamaCare.

#3. I think people are exaggerating the political effects of the GOP owning a bad health care system after passing the bill. (They will own it no matter what from being the majority party.) The same people on the right will blame the left, and the same people on the left will blame the right. Nobody is expecting a miracle overhaul of the gigantic health care sector overnight.