‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

[Greenbeard]

We're less than a month away from the 11-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage. And the GOP still has no health plan, no alternative to the law they built their identity around trashing.

Having never actually come up with the "replace" part of the vacuous "repeal-and-replace" slogan, looks like they're finally ditching the slogan. Now it's back to the political PR firms to come up with a new slogan to paper over the fact that the GOP still has no platform on a Top 2 or 3 issue for voters, and hasn't for years (perhaps decades!). I'd say it unbelievable, but after watching this play out for more than a decade it's incredibly believable.

The nihilism on display from this party as it continued to try to dismantle the ACA during a pandemic without devising the promised alternative was staggering.

‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

Former President Donald Trump is gone and so are his promises to throw out Obamacare. Now the Republican Party is left with figuring out what comes after “repeal and replace.”

GOP lawmakers rarely mention Obamacare, and a GOP-backed challenge to the law at the Supreme Court doesn’t appear to be a major threat. Republican attacks on Democrats pursuing a “government takeover” of health care through a single-payer system don’t quite sizzle when President Joe Biden has made clear he wants nothing to do with it. And long-favored Republican designs on shrinking the health care safety net isn’t great policy or politics in the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis.

Which leaves a big fat question mark about what vision of health care Republicans will offer to voters as the country emerges from the pandemic, after a decade in which implacable opposition to the Affordable Care Act was part of the GOP’s core identity.

But now Obamacare is firmly implanted in the U.S. health care system and viewed more favorably. It’s still not embraced by large numbers of conservative voters, but public attitudes have softened toward many of its key components. Keeping young adults on their parents’ health plans until age 26 and protecting the tens of millions of people with pre-existing conditions is now the American way.

 

[Phys251]

We're less than a month away from the 11-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage. And the GOP still has no health plan, no alternative to the law they built their identity around trashing.

Having never actually come up with the "replace" part of the vacuous "repeal-and-replace" slogan, looks like they're finally ditching the slogan. Now it's back to the political PR firms to come up with a new slogan to paper over the fact that the GOP still has no platform on a Top 2 or 3 issue for voters, and hasn't for years (perhaps decades!). I'd say it unbelievable, but after watching this play out for more than a decade it's incredibly believable.

The nihilism on display from this party as it continued to try to dismantle the ACA during a pandemic without devising the promised alternative was staggering.

‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

The Rethuglicans are the Party of No. Saying Yes to anything good--science, healthcare, common sense, life after birth--is nearly impossible for them.

 

[americanwoman]

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Trump never got around to releasing his amazing healthcare plan?

I'm shocked! /s

 

[mrjurrs]

We're less than a month away from the 11-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage. And the GOP still has no health plan, no alternative to the law they built their identity around trashing.

Having never actually come up with the "replace" part of the vacuous "repeal-and-replace" slogan, looks like they're finally ditching the slogan. Now it's back to the political PR firms to come up with a new slogan to paper over the fact that the GOP still has no platform on a Top 2 or 3 issue for voters, and hasn't for years (perhaps decades!). I'd say it unbelievable, but after watching this play out for more than a decade it's incredibly believable.

The nihilism on display from this party as it continued to try to dismantle the ACA during a pandemic without devising the promised alternative was staggering.

‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

They can't figure it out because there never was a replacement plan.

 

[AGENT J]

We're less than a month away from the 11-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage. And the GOP still has no health plan, no alternative to the law they built their identity around trashing.

Having never actually come up with the "replace" part of the vacuous "repeal-and-replace" slogan, looks like they're finally ditching the slogan. Now it's back to the political PR firms to come up with a new slogan to paper over the fact that the GOP still has no platform on a Top 2 or 3 issue for voters, and hasn't for years (perhaps decades!). I'd say it unbelievable, but after watching this play out for more than a decade it's incredibly believable.

The nihilism on display from this party as it continued to try to dismantle the ACA during a pandemic without devising the promised alternative was staggering.

‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

it was always a fantasy, nobody honested and objective believed it was real . . .just one of Dip Shit Donnies many failures and broken promises.

the right move was for congress to actually do its job and simply continue to work on healthcare, build on top of the APC and the grea things it did, fix the broken parts, improve the parts the needed it and add to it when that was needed too.

health care will NEVER be done . . its something that will need to be tweaked forever.

Lets see if this admin continues that or if congress just shits the bed again

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

We're less than a month away from the 11-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage. And the GOP still has no health plan, no alternative to the law they built their identity around trashing.

Having never actually come up with the "replace" part of the vacuous "repeal-and-replace" slogan, looks like they're finally ditching the slogan. Now it's back to the political PR firms to come up with a new slogan to paper over the fact that the GOP still has no platform on a Top 2 or 3 issue for voters, and hasn't for years (perhaps decades!). I'd say it unbelievable, but after watching this play out for more than a decade it's incredibly believable.

The nihilism on display from this party as it continued to try to dismantle the ACA during a pandemic without devising the promised alternative was staggering.

‘Repeal and replace’ is dead. Republicans can’t figure out what comes next.

I agree with the OP.
But Obamacare wasn't much of a "cure" for what ails us really.
Until we stop allowing multinational corporations to dictate our policies to us there won't be a real "cure".
With Obamacare at least I can buy insurance now without spending $5K per month, but since basically nothing is covered until I reach a threshold that is thousands of dollars at the least, the policy is still pretty much useless except in the case of catastrophic illness. I still pay for everything out of pocket. The bottom line is *still* the profitability of insurance companies.
Whats the point?
We need a public option.
And thats not happening anytime soon.

 

[Greenbeard]

Trump never got around to releasing his amazing healthcare plan?

I'm shocked! /s

...nor Boehner, nor Ryan, nor any other figure in the GOP. Trump was just the latest in a long line of liars promising a nonexistence replacement since 2010.

I agree with the OP.
But Obamacare wasn't much of a "cure" for what ails us really.
Until we stop allowing multinational corporations to dictate our policies to us there won't be a real "cure".
With Obamacare at least I can buy insurance now without spending $5K per month, but since basically nothing is covered until I reach a threshold that is thousands of dollars at the least, the policy is still pretty much useless except in the case of catastrophic illness. I still pay for everything out of pocket. The bottom line is *still* the profitability of insurance companies.
Whats the point?
We need a public option.
And thats not happening anytime soon.

The ACA was about a lot more than just insurance, it touched a broad swath of the health care system. And the positive impacts are all over the place to see.

Can the financial support be better scaled to incomes to help people better afford health plans, particularly more generous plans with lower out-of-pocket costs? Yes! That's a core tenet of the Biden package of improvements, and it will very likely be in the American Rescue Plan.

And while a public option would be a positive step forward, particularly in markets that have few or no competitors, it's not a panacea. It'll face largely the same rules and incentives that commercial plans face so far (which not only generally did not profit in the first few years of the marketplaces, but actually subsidized people through the losses they took). Washington state is testing out it's first public option flavor this year and the premiums aren't dazzlingly different than non-public option premiums: they range from about -7% to +15% relative to competitors.