Is it now possible for the GOP to slowly strangle Obamacare?

[mac56]

Death by a thousand cuts?

And then say, see, we told you it was a failure?

And if so -- what can be done to stop them?

[bearsfootball516]

1. Only one ideal option

Win back the presidency in 2020.

[Demsrule86]

2. I don't think so...it has already been said it can be fixed.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Sure, it could be 'fixed', but who.....

controls the purse strings?

[Demsrule86]

14. McConnell said it...they own it now.

[Squinch]

3. Yes. They have both houses. They can do what they want.

[underpants]

5. Marco Rubio did a lot of damage when he blocked the Risk Corridors

https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-risk-corridor-20160518-snap-story,amp.html

[phleshdef]

6. Trump can kill the exchanges with a stroke of a pen. No votes needed.

He could end the cost-sharing-reduction payments with an executive order. That money helps offset the costs for insurers in the exchanges. If he killed that, all the insurers would have to bail.

[unblock]

11. Can he actually do that?

Benedict Donald has made that threat, but if the aca provides for those payments, can't insurance companies go to court if necessary to force the federal government to pay up?

Not sure if the law actually leaves that to executive discretion.

[phleshdef]

13. According to this article, he can.

If Trump were to end the executive branch's funding of Obamacare's cost-sharing-reduction payments, a critical provision that helps offset costs for insurers, it would most likely lead to an exodus of insurers from the individual exchanges and skyrocketing costs for Americans in those markets, effectively causing the collapse of the law.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweets-on-senate-republican-health-care-bill-failure-obamacare-2017-7

I wasn't aware of this myself until I read that earlier today.

[tonyt53]

7. Sure can, and likely will to some extent. Nothing the Dems, or population can do.

People should have thought about this last fall. They said they were going to do it. Now here we are talking about it.

[zipplewrath]

8. Yes

And Trump will. He's already started.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Repubs have been doing their best to dismantle those protections...

since the very beginning.

[mac56]

10. We are screwed.

[MiddleClass]

12. Yes, but to do it and have the blame fall on Democrats, is another story

They poisoned the patient, and now they are screaming.

"We got to put the patient out of their misery, I told you so"

but they got caught trying to transfer the deed of the house to their wife,

now the tenants are going to court screaming.

If they just tried to kill the patient and not evict the tenants they might have got away with it