GOP's AHCA aka Trump-RyanCare

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Originally Posted by finnbow

The GOP would own that too.

I know you'd wish that. I also realize that you'd want to celebrate the loss of access to coverage (i.e., many markets now with only a single carrier available via the exchange) and incumbent higher prices that individuals are paying for their coverage under the ACA, and the pain that causes folks, because it syncs with your politics. Sad that you and your Dem pals need folks to get hurt because you think that's the best way to win.

The other sad fact - also in response to Bob's wrong-headed post about the "gummbit" getting involved in health care - is that the gov't has been involving themselves incrementally at the state and federal levels in healthcare for 50 years. In that time, cost of coverage and care has sky-rocketed. The ACA was the capstone of 50 years in government intervention in the healthcare market. It also made health care a federal political issue, and made solutions to the current scenario much harder to come by, since any solution won't be the best solution, unless the best solution also happens to be the most politically expedient solution.

The sorry fact remains that the Dems own this because of the failure of the ACA, and it has fallen to the new congress and Prez to try and fix it.