>>>We had the same type of arguments with social security got started up
>Alas, I have to disagree here, Victor.
>While it's true that there was strong conservative opposition to both bills, check the record and you'll find that Social Security and Medicare both had strong bipartisan support in the congress while AHCA was passed on strict party lines.
>While I think that many GOP pol's are whack jobs, all of them aren't and there was zero GOP support for this bill.
>You have to listen to what other people say, like it or not, or democracy won't work and our guys just didn't listen on this one.

The real question is how many R's voted against because they really opposed it and how many did so because they were afraid of being primaried from the right. After all, the basic idea of the ACA started out as a Heritage Foundation idea.

Tamar