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For comparison, 8% of those polled in 2016 said that they had "taken their shirt off and twisted it around their head like a helicopter." So on the bright side, the bill is faring slightly better on that front.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
For comparison, 8% of those polled in 2016 said that they had "taken their shirt off and twisted it around their head like a helicopter." So on the bright side, the bill is faring slightly better on that front.
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I assume that was a national poll. The number is much higher in North Carolina. #raiseup
 
Republicans seem to forget that they ruled out just repeal months ago because it would be a disaster.

Just because they've made a bigger disaster of replace doesn't mean just repeal isn't still a disaster.

CBO estimates from an old repeal bill project premiums doubling and 32 million losing insurance by 2026.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371
 
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PhDeac said:
Republicans seem to forget that they ruled out just repeal months ago because it would be a disaster.

Just because they've made a bigger disaster of replace doesn't mean just repeal isn't still a disaster.

CBO estimates from an old repeal bill project premiums doubling and 32 million losing insurance by 2026.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371
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And Trump will spin it as a benevolent compromise. #ArtOfTheDeal It's how he won the presidency: offer such an overwhelmingly shitty deal to begin with, in hopes you won't notice how insanely shitty the product still is after you exhaust yourself just taking it from overwhelmingly shitty to simply shitty.

I'm actually pretty sure he admits that's what he does in the book.
 
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At parades and protests, GOP lawmakers get earful about health care

“There was only one issue. That’s unusual. It’s usually a wide range of issues,” Collins said in an interview after the parade. “I heard, over and over again, encouragement for my stand against the current version of the Senate and House health-care bills. People were thanking me, over and over again. ‘Thank you, Susan!’ ‘Stay strong, Susan!’ ”

Collins, whose opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act helped derail last week’s plans for a quick vote, is being lobbied to smother it and make Congress start over. Republicans, who skipped the usual committee process in the hopes of passing a bill quickly, are spending the Fourth of July recess fending off protesters, low poll numbers and newspaper front pages that warn of shuttered hospitals and 22 million people being shunted off their insurance. It was a bill, Collins said, that she just couldn’t vote for.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-card-f:homepage/story&utm_term=.f59bfa5e662a

A GOP stunt backfires, and accidentally reveals a truth Republicans want hidden

"The Washington Post and the New York Times have published two excellent pieces that debunk most of the leading GOP lies and distortions of the moment on health care. The Post piece looks at a series of White House claims. They include exaggerated assertions about Obamacare premium hikes (that don’t take into account subsidies that ease costs for lower-income people); and gamed statistics about the number covered by the ACA (that don’t take into account the enormous coverage gains achieved by the Medicaid expansion). Most insultingly of all, the White House is criticizing Obamacare because 29 million Americans currently remain uncovered. The spectacularly dumb argument here is actually that Obamacare is failing because it hasn’t succeeded in achieving universal coverage, so we should embrace a GOP bill that would leave nearly 50 million uncovered in 10 years."

"44 STATES HAVE REFUSED REQUEST FOR VOTER DATA: CNN tallies it up:

Forty-four states have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the Trump administration’s election integrity commission, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states."
 
Republicans have lied continuously about the ACA. And it worked for them to gain power and influence.

Only problem for them is now they have no way forward. The rational choice (policy wise, not politically) is to help make the ACA (a largely Pub plan in the first damn place) better (stabilize the markets, enhance the mandate, expand medicaid, etc.--politically impossible for them due to their own tomfoolery. And they won't move towards single payer or medicare for all. So they only have some crazy backwards path that leaves more people uninsured, that lowers "costs" by worsening insurance policies and diminishing overall access to care. And most folks can see that path as regressive and undesirable.
 
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