Republicans pee their pants over owning "Trumpcare" and its impact on the 2018 elections

[Miles Archer]

A secret recording obtained by the Washington Post reveals the GOP is freaking out about its Obamacare repeal. Republicans have spent the last years boasting of repealing former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and with Donald Trump now in the White House, that goal seemed promising for Republicans — except they haven’t decided on a replacement.

The recording of a closed-door meeting on Thursday revealed GOP lawmakers’ concern about moving forward with a quick repeal. “We’d better be sure that we’re prepared to live with the market we’ve created [with repeal],” said California Rep. Tom McClintock. “That’s going to be called Trumpcare. Republicans will own that lock, stock and barrel, and we’ll be judged in the election less than two years away.”

While Trump insisted along the campaign trail that he would both repeal and replace the healthcare plan, the GOP has yet to craft a single plan that could effectively replace the ACA. Earlier this month, the then-president-elect promised to replace Obamacare “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”

There appears to be no consensus on a replacement plan, as of Trump’s Thursday visit to Philadelphia for the GOP’s three-day retreat. “We don’t want to set arbitrary deadlines on things,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan, according to Kaiser Health News. “We want to move quickly, but we want to get things right.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/secret-recording-reveals-gop-is-freaking-out-about-repealing-and-replacing-obamacare/

[C_U_L8R]

1. They're worried about what it's called???

How about coming up with an actual plan, you lazy idiot republican bastards.

[mwooldri]

3. Doesn't matter. The R "health care plan"...

... is totally trumped up.

[caballojm]

4. They need time; it's unfair to expect a new plan overnight!

I mean, they've only had seven years to formulate an alternative. Plus they're so busy with all those jobs bills, and infrastructure modernization bills, and making sure we have clean air to breathe and safe water to drink. You know, the things that matter most to people.

[gratuitous]

2. "We don't want to set arbitrary deadlines"

Really, what's the big hurry as Republican whining grinds on?

Remedial legislation could have been proposed by Republicans any time during the last seven years, but they proposed exactly nothing at all. This should be prominently mentioned every time Ryan or McConnell or some other Republican comes out to complain about how hard legislatin' is.

[OregonBlue]

5. When their constituants start dying because they have no health care,

they will try to blame it on the Dems but this time it won't work. They break, they buy it.

[jeanmarc]

6. Patient Freedom Act

Never trust Susan Collins to do anything well. She's the hired hand for apology when legislation seems cruel and awful. She almost always shows up.