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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFaux Snooze: "ObamaCare 'will explode,' Trump says after GOP pulls alternative"
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The reason is simple: nobody wants the thing, apparently including its creators.
And its not just that the bills is broadly unpopular. Its even unpopular with Trumps core supporters. As Harry Enten observes, Right now, though, the share of Hillary Clinton voters who oppose the Republican bill is much larger than the share of Donald Trump voters who support it.
It may stand as a failure for the ages that Republicans did not manage to come up with a real replacement of their own in the seven years they spent railing against the many malignancies of ObamaCare.
But nothing is going to change that now, and, as Rich Lowry points out its not like good options abounded for the GOP.
Heres the essential choice: Republicans can keep ObamaCare and admit defeat, learning to live with a new social welfare program and expansive federal regulation of insurance. Or, the GOP can take possession of a stingier version that simultaneously offends the consciences of conservatives while offending the well-being of many of the same working-class voters who put the GOP in total control of Washington.
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Faux Snooze: "ObamaCare 'will explode,' Trump says after GOP pulls alternative" (Original Post)
lindysalsagal
Mar 2017
OP
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)1. The only exploding that's happening
is the heads of Trump and the Faux Snooze dingbats.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Problem is, GOPers can defund key aspects of ACA.
lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)3. After this week? They won't go near it. Its toxic, now.