more Slate - "Ignore the Suspense - We Know How This Ends" re Trumpcare

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/trumpcare_is_right_where_republicans_want_it.html

Dissent is all part of the script. Trumpcare is right where Republicans want it.

By Jim Newell

To walk into the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday morning was less to enter an ongoing, real-life debate of mysterious outcome than to assume your role in a hackneyed script.



About 100 reporters huddled outside the Mike Mansfield Room, where Republican senators were meeting to unveil the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Reporters in the script asked the senators questions as they entered, and senators, per the script, said, “We’ll see.” After the meeting, senators responded to most questions with, “I’m still reviewing the text, but it’s a promising start.” At least this is what the rank and file, who are largely content with the product, said.

The script requires small groups of moderates and conservatives to each have problems with the bill. They will now go about seeking changes—probably already known to the author, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but preserved for revelation in a later act.

Conservative senators say that they can’t support the “Obamacare-lite” bill barring further changes. They have a point that the BCRA, like the House-passed American Health Care Act, is not a repeal of Obamacare in the classical sense. It leaves much of the individual market structure of subsidies and exchanges in place, but with cuts, and offers states certain regulatory waivers. It does, however, repeal Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to finance tax cuts—and then reforms Medicaid entirely going forward.

snip - more to read at the link

[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. have to admit it feels like the fix is in... n/m

[L. Coyote]

2. They are stealing a trillion dollars and there is no stopping that kind of payola.

Trump himself gets 27 million dollars .... do the math.