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13. Not if they want to stay in office

Thu Feb 23, 2017, 11:55 AM

Feb 2017

They've promised their constituents that they have an alternative plan that will give them better care for less money, will still let people with preexisting conditions buy insurance, and will not have an individual mandate. If their answer is to repeal the ACA and do nothing, their constituents are gonna be pissed.

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Boehner: Republicans won't repeal and replace Obamacare [View all] brooklynite Feb 2017 OP

After getting constantly attacked from the right, Boehner feels vindicated. Skinner Feb 2017 #1

+1 Raine1967 Feb 2017 #32

Just what the hell are they going to "fix"? CottonBear Feb 2017 #2

Attention Scarsdale Feb 2017 #22

So Hatch's son is a pharma lobbyist. Follow the money. CottonBear Feb 2017 #23

both in pharma pockets. pansypoo53219 Feb 2017 #33

"Hey, this gov program is working! We gotta FIX that!" Beartracks Feb 2017 #37

Exactly. CottonBear Feb 2017 #41

They already destroyed it Beakybird Feb 2017 #3

There are ways for them to bring it back - that's what the Cassidy-Collins plan does kiranerys Feb 2017 #12

Democrats should STOP calling it Obamacare. --- 'Republicare' keithbvadu2 Feb 2017 #19

Post removed Post removed Feb 2017 #39

ACA bocaharv Feb 2017 #42

No... call it republicare, a name that will outlast trumpuncare. keithbvadu2 Feb 2017 #43

So true LOL Lib Feb 2017 #30

Politico just posted a leaked scan of their proposal, and..... kiranerys Feb 2017 #40

There's still time....! Grins Feb 2017 #4

I wish he was right, but he isnt. Fuckface hates Obama for making fun of him at a dinner, period. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #5

and they will never win an election again Hamlette Feb 2017 #24

"Obamacare is dead!" yallerdawg Feb 2017 #6

As bad as Boehner was, he wasn't as diabolical as those in control of the House and still_one Feb 2017 #7

Boehner wasnt Lefthacker Feb 2017 #11

Anyone who calls Ted Cruz a miserable son of a bitch harun Feb 2017 #15

Boehner could have been a quite decent Speaker for the country, moonscape Feb 2017 #28

"As bad as Boehner was,..." Yeah, he was a weasel. And compared to what's there now mpcamb Feb 2017 #16

just when you thought they couldn't get worse, they did still_one Feb 2017 #17

Sure. They'll repeal it and call it a day. Orrex Feb 2017 #8

Not if they want to stay in office kiranerys Feb 2017 #13

I hope that's true Orrex Feb 2017 #14

+1 putitinD Feb 2017 #26

It's analogous to when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and said charlyvi Feb 2017 #21

Nobody expected the ACA to be perfect right from the start. Rorey Feb 2017 #9

Boehner played hardball, but he was a realist bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #10

High deductible definitely kiranerys Feb 2017 #34

If they screw up their base's health care, those in office are screwed themselves. Ligyron Feb 2017 #18

Alternate headline: flamin lib Feb 2017 #20

20 Million people got health care under ACA, if as many as 5 million were republican voters Hamlette Feb 2017 #25

I don't think we can know party affiliation, but we can look at states kiranerys Feb 2017 #35

consevatives could have ALWAYS helped to FIX ACA Skittles Feb 2017 #27

Precisely. paleotn Feb 2017 #29

It was a Republican design from the start... Rollo Feb 2017 #31

"Fix"? They will try to sabotage, ... and then point "oh, look it failed." . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #36

Boehner doesn't know the evil that is Bannon. sarcasmo Feb 2017 #38

If the GOP were smart they would pass a resolution that said usaf-vet Feb 2017 #44