For six long years while the Republicans were "trying" to get ObamaCare repealed, they swore up and down on stacks and stacks of bibles that they had their own plan ready to go; just read it on the floor and away we go! When Trump got elected and the ball fell squarely in their laps, they shouted with glee that they would indeed repeal and replace ObamaCare... just as soon as they wrote a plan.
Well, evidently they were lying about having a plan ready to go.
The House put together a bill that would neither repeal or replace ObamaCare. There was a public outcry. They tweaked it a tad... a small tad... and got it passed. The public was angry. But the Senate quickly announced that they would come with their own plan and fix the mess the House had created. Now, of course, they're working hard to pass what is just yet another "tweak" to ObamaCare.
The only problem is... they can't get it passed. There are still some Republicans, darned few of them, who want to deliver to the American people what they promised to deliver... repeal and replacement of ObamaCare.
Both the House and the Senate versions leave ObamaCare virtually intact, along with the huge government bureaucracy it created and the huge employee payroll budget you and I are paying for.
And the lies and spins they all tell about why we taxpayers who voted for them can't have what they promised us we would have if they got elected. Those storied versions are as long as my arm. The most prevalent fabrication is that ObamaCare cannot be repealed without 60% of the Senate and the Democrats simply won't give them one single vote; therefore, we have to live with ObamaCare in some form... they say.
Baloney. Create a new law that suspends, not repeals, ObamaCare while installing a new law. Or simply defund ObamaCare. Don't tell me that what the voters want they cannot have.
Frankly, I believe the Republicans are knowingly doing everything possible to avoid passing responsible healthcare legislation because they want to make Trump look bad. Everything has just been a charade, going through the motions with no intention of reaching an American solution.
And they have the unmitigated gall to ask us for donations to their 2018 campaigns?
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