(09-14-2017 12:46 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Coog,

Why won't Republicans get behind something like that? It boggles the mind that they can't even come up with a PLAN! It's so frustrating. You still got Rethuglicans that think they can repeal Obamacare whole cloth. THEY CAN'T! Adapt respond! Come up with a plan that will be better and much cheaper like oranged hair said. Ohhhh you can't? Then find something that can pass. Ohhh you can't get past the freedom crowd folks? Work with Dems on a compromise. The longer this crap goes the closer we are to single payer. You better get while the getting is good. Why are they so inept?

It wouldn't matter. There wouldn't be enough Republican support for such a bill and Democrats would hate it because everyone would have to pay. Much of the general public would hate the bill because many receive a better benefit from the way things are now (many basically get free healthcare). While I think my suggestion is reasonable, fair, and viable over the long term---it probably wouldn't even get the 49 votes the Republican bill got and I doubt a single democrat would have voted for it. Both sides are being ridiculous in this debate. One side has a death grip on a failed plan with no long term future---the other fails to understand that the American people like that preexisting conditions are covered and will never vote to support someone repealing that plank of healthcare legislation (not that the Republicans ever even bothered to propose a legitimate replacement).

I know you hate Trump...but this is exactly where a guy who is a deal maker and not an ideologue might actually be able to make headway where party leaders cannot.