>>>thus killing this bill yet again. Now Mitch McConnell is saying they need to work with the Dems to come up with a bipartisan plan. So as a last resort I guess he'll work with others - gee what a brilliant idea.
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>Victor, this is actually a disaster. Look at the unpaid ACA premiums this year: According to CMS, in January (meaning before the Republicans took the reins) almost 2 million ACA enrollees had failed to pay their premiums- which presumably translates to 2 million households without cover. Worse: we may not like the insurers, but dishonored policies undermine already shaky underwriting, which guarantees bumper premium increases for insurers to stay solvent- or even stay in the scheme at all. Don't forget, by January at least 2 million ACA policies were unpaid of the 12.2 million who had signed up, which presumably matches at least 2 million households left without cover compared to 10 million who still have cover. Really, those decrying millions losing cover under the GOP scheme ought to start with what has already occurred in real life.
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>If this drags on, insurers *will* continue pulling out of states and premiums *will* go through the roof unless GOP politicians approve additional billions to prop up the ACA- more than to fund their own obstructed scheme. So IMHO there may be some high-fiving and posturing in some circles, but for Joe Average it's another unmitigated disaster.
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>No, this does not mean I support the GOP scheme that you mischaracterize as "no care," I'm just disappointed that once again people in the US are so fixed on binary hostility that they cheer to see the village destroyed as long as their side won the fight over how to save it.


Here's what the GOP should have done all along - NOTHING. They should have let Obamacare continue its collapse.

The GOP has demonstrated over the last few months that they are every bit as moronic as the left claims.