Reply #10: presumption - the GOP wnats meaningful HCR

[Newshues]

that isn't a fact in evidence.

Politically speaking what the GOP gets to do in 3 years, assuming a weak public option that the CBO says will enroll between 0 and 10 million people with 0 being more likely, is the GOP gets to say the Democrats have taken 2 cracks at it in 20 years and nothing meaningful has been achieved - trust us, we'll get it done.

A too large portion of voters don't care about the details. They care about seeing something done and then seeing results that reduce the problem. We'll get the "something done" part question is if it will give us any results that are meaningful. We can hold them off in 3 years with a "it needs time to work" but in the midterms 5 years out, no meaningful results will end up as a disaster for our side on the issue.

The GOP will then put forth a whole bunch of free market crap that will, in the short term, show results but in the long term make the whole problem worse as people realize that health insurance from an out of state insurer isn't all it is cracked up to be.

After that we get single payer. So another 15 years of waiting.