Paul Ryan: "Obamacare is the law of the land"
Paul Ryan: Obamacare is the law of the land
An admission that Ryan probably wasnt expecting just three months into a full Republican government.
Updated by German [email protected]@vox.com Mar 24, 2017, 5:12pm EDT
It was an admission of defeat that House Speaker Paul Ryan probably didnt expect to make just three months into a fully Republican government: Obamacare is the law of the land.
Were going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.
Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, Republicans have been working to repeal President Barack Obamas signature piece of legislation. The House in particular tried to repeal or otherwise cripple the law to no avail literally dozens of times.
Then Republicans captured the White House, on top of already controlling Congress. It was widely believed that this was finally their chance to repeal the health care law they despised so much.
Yet when the time came to pull the trigger, they couldnt do it. Not even because of Democratic opposition, but because different factions in the Republican Party just werent satisfied with the bill that House leadership put forward. More conservative members felt the repeal-and-replace bill didnt do enough to dismantle Obamacare, while the more moderate members worried that the bill would rip away health insurance from too many Americans. This fracture within the party proved too much, and the American Health Care Act (AHCA) never obtained enough votes to even warrant a vote.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,752 posts)They were worried about their constituents' losing Medicaid under this draconian law. Of course, they were also worried about losing votes! But still, their hearts were in the right place.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The a holes are now going to do everything they can to mess with it and sabotage it. Then squeal that it was all Obama and Dem fault that it "failed".
the ACA became Trumpcare when Donnie took office.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Grizzled Ol Granddad
(73 posts)RussBLib
(9,047 posts)I hope to see that headline, or more! Heck, we're going to try to get onto it now too.
Skittles
(153,252 posts)if it fails now it will be YOUR FAULT
you need to take up the offer from the Dems to WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE ACA