QuakerOats;1824539 wrote:Whacking the individual mandate is the death knell to obamaKare, and its going, going, gone.
They'll expand Medicaid, which is basically all most of the newly insureds under Obamakare have gotten. That's easy.
And you could just make it illegal for insurance companies to screen pre-existing conditions. That's even easier.
Much, much simpler than the complex mess that is Obamakare. I do believe it was designed with the expectation that it would fail, ultimately paving the way to single payer. At the time they didn't have the votes for single payer or a public option, but they had the hubris to think they'd gain the votes in the next election (as opposed to the shellacking they actually got).
If you consider what was set-up in 2008 and seemingly for years to come....Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Clinton are tremendous failures - Democrats have been slaughtered at all levels of govt throughout the country. 1000 seats, I think it was, that they've lost. That's what happens when you insist completely ignore the minority party as if they've sunk into irrelevance. That's what happens when you become the identity politics party of the agrieved, and much of America doesn't feel represented and tires of being shamed for unconscious acts of "discrimination".
And Republicans would be remiss to think that a lot of those gains, even most, aren't significantly attributable to what a horrid candidate Clinton was. There's going to be a recession in the next 4 years, so Republicans better give voters a reason to vote for something other than the economy.
