Thoughts at large

[Jimaz]

Let's do a little link repair here:

As of May 4th, 2017, as I am writing this, a version of the We’ll-Take-Away-Your-Healthcare-So-We-Can-Give-Rich-People-Tax-Cuts Act has passed the House, but it’s far from a done deal. The leaders aren’t blind to how ugly this looks and more moderate members of the GOP caucus are not in love with law they just voted on. The Senate version is likely to be much more moderate than the House one, and the more moderate it gets, the more votes it will lose from diehard conservative House members.

Why do Republicans oppose Obamacare so strongly?

How many times over the years have they tried to vote down Obamacare with nothing to back it up? They just want the playground win. We lose.

The irony is this: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act#Legislative_history

An individual mandate coupled with subsidies for private insurance as a means for universal healthcare was considered the best way to win the support of the Senate because it had been included in prior bipartisan reform proposals. The concept goes back to at least 1989, when the conservative The Heritage Foundation proposed an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer health care.

They're bitching about their own proposal!