Now, how to fight death by a thousand cuts.

[LAS14]

How do we fight lack of regulation enforcement. Declining to defend court challenges, etc.

WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK CONGRESS IN 2018!!!!! (Yup, yelling.)

Any other ideas?

[Doreen]

1. unfortimately the only thing I can think of is do what we have been doing

except going in even stronger. The last fight was easy compared to the next ones. They are going to be more ready for us.

[AJT]

2. I have posted the same concerns. The destruction had

already started by Rubio. That is why I kind of wished that Trumpcare had passed completely on party lines, then the GOP would have owned the results. Now, when the ACA fails the dems will take the blame and 2018 won't be looking too good. If Trumpcare would have passed it would have made a lot of people very unhappy and the dems might have been able to take both houses and fix it.

[MoonRiver]

3. That is ridiculous. The ACA is NOT going to fail.

[KewlKat]

5. The rethugs will see that it does. They've already lifted the mandate, so we don't have to have the

insurance now. No penalty to IRS either. So, the lower risk pools begin to drop, funds coming in to help support the program stop, and then the rates rise due to the loss of the younger folks and then the rethugs say, see we told you..........so yes it CAN fail if the rethugs change the rules, regulations, etc and there is no funding to help everyone with their premiums.

[MoonRiver]

8. They would have to replace it, and they can't.

Kansas is about to vote for Medicaid expansion. My understanding is that many other red states will do the same thing. The ACA will NOT fail. We still have significant influence in both the House and Senate. Plus, the majority of Americans do not want the ACA to be repealed or fail.

[KewlKat]

4. The message on the airwaves that the dems are saying should be that the RETHUGS DID NOT HAVE

ENOUGH VOTES IN THEIR OWN PARTY TO PASS THE BILL. The dems also then need to put out there that had it passed, it gutted EVERYTHING. Now, they should make the voters aware that if the rethugs have their way, they will see to the destruction of ACA, which has already begun with lifting the mandate in February, and the rethugs will leave us all with nothing. Rethugs in power, not the dems, so the dems alone can't fix it ACA alone. Other option, single payer starting with the states as Michael Moore spoke about yesterday.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. In the short term we can't

What we can do is keep the patient alive WHILE indicting the assailant for attempted murder. And we then need to convict the Republican Party in the court of public opinion with a case so compelling that the jury barely needs to deliberate before returning their verdict.

In other words we not only have to start wining congressional elections, we have to totally vilify Republican behavior so that they suffer a decade long setback. That will give us the time needed to heal with two thousand treatments - leaving us in a better place than where we stood before the Republicans gained total control.

We have to thoroughly change the public's voting habits, so that the broad swath of Democrats become EAGER to vote in EVERY election.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. That's the answer, for sure.

It won't be easy, but we can do it if we really, really want to. I recommend that we do.