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Kevin McCarthy tells Trump new health care push makes no sense

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Kevin McCarthy tells Trump new health care push makes no sense

Yeah. Maybe McCarthy isn't as dumb as he looks. The GOP got absolutely creamed on health care in 2018, and that's when they were pretending to support pre-existing condition protections.

Reflecting widespread concerns within his party, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has told President Trump he disagrees with the Trump administration's attempt to get the entire Affordable Care Act thrown out in court.

McCarthy told Trump over the phone that the decision made no sense — especially after Democrats killed Republicans in the midterms in part over the issue of pre-existing conditions, according to two sources familiar with their recent conversation. As Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur points out — health care was the top issue for 2018 midterm voters, and voters who cared most about health care favored Democrats over Republicans by more than 50 percentage points.

The big picture: McCarthy is far from alone in his view. Multiple GOP sources — from the most conservative to the most moderate wing of the party — have told Axios that they can't fathom why the president would want to re-litigate an issue that has been a clear loser for Republicans.
  • A senior House Republican aide texted: "Members feel like [the Mueller report announcement] was great and Trump stepped all over that message with the Obamacare lawsuit announcement."
  • They’re also exasperated about Trump’s substance-free declaration that Republicans will become "The Party of Healthcare.” Republicans aren’t united on health care, and they have been unable to advance a replacement for the ACA.
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Taking away people's health care is bad, bad politics. Nice work, Trump.
 
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I agree Republicans are not united on HealthCare and that's a problem it doesn't mean that Trump should ignore the current health care situation. Too costly and often not usuable when you have it because of high deductable cost. I'm happy to hear Trump is trying to address the current healthcare system with hopes of getting rid of what we have and providing something better.
 
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I agree Republicans are not united on HealthCare and that's a problem it doesn't mean that Trump should ignore the current health care situation. Too costly and often not usuable when you have it because of high deductable cost. I'm happy to hear Trump is trying to address the current healthcare system with hopes of getting rid of what we have and providing something better.
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Trump isn't trying to address anything, other than the poor and sick having access to health insurance. Which only Trump and the GOP define as a problem to be solved.
 
To be perfectly honest, I think Kevin McCarthy is a "low wattage bulb" in the proverbial candelabra. Truly, I cannot think of one accomplishment of his that either laid a foundation to later bear or at the time bore copious and particularly "juicy fruit." AFAIK, the only thing that man has done but run his mouth, rile people and create confusion. The man is just very mired in the moment, a "bush beater;" he's not a strategic thinker.


To the extent we're here discussing the Trump Admin's move to ply in federal court the case to abolish the ACA, it's purely a political gambit designed to maneuver the healthcare debate into a Morton's Fork position. It's not a bad gambit for McConnell delayed "O's" judicial appointments, hastened Trump's, giving him the opportunity to pack the federal court system, and the obvious endgame is the Senate, once the ACA is struck down by the courts (if it is so struck) offering an insurance-industry friendly health insurance bill they frame as a solution and blame Dems for not passing it.

Mind you, the Dems can preempt that strategy by proffering their own "ACA Replacement," thereby claiming the initiative in the endgame. They can compliment that by delaying the judicial process, using swarms of motions and continuances, until January 2020, thereby playing their own counter-gambit. That approach gives Dems the ability to retain health insurance and leaves the GOP hanging since it has no coherent or viable ACA replacement and they have a decade-long demonstrable record of not being able to formulate and enact one, even when they controlled the House, Senate and WH.
 
I'd be genuinely curious to hear from an anti-ACA Republican who's actually affected by Trump's decision.
 
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