DCZards wrote:
Indu, I refuse to believe you're naive enough to believe that Obamacare is gone that easily. Most Americans like the essential elements of the law...and many of us will still be covered by it when we go to the doctor or hospital next week. The law is too deeply embedded in our healthcare system to just simply go away.
The Repubs will try to tweak/change Obamacare (we all want to see the law improved) and they will try to call it something else. But the core principles of Obamacre are here to stay. Thanks #44.
I think that the Rs will lose their majority if the repeal the ACA without a replacement. It is political suicide. They could just leave the current entitlement policies in place (letting the Ds in the senate block them) and continue putting the blame on the Ds.
That of course would be politically expedient but bad for the country. Entitlements are a third-rail issue - and both parties are willing to kick it down the road so as not having to deal with the issue (we can't afford them as they are currently constituted.
I currently don't see either party having the backbone to actually do what is right.
On the one hand the Ds put in to motion covering more folks with healthcare insurance. On the other hand, they made it so complex and onerous for the federal purses as to accelerate the time when entitlements would outstrip revenues. And they paint anyone who wants fiscal sanity as a baby or old person killer.
The Rs have routinely buried their heads on some of the most important issues that the ACA covered. They have routinely been willing to lower taxes to the point where deficits soar. When they do lower taxes they don't do it the right way - removing some of the deductions that are both unfair and bad for the deficit (and yes, Ds have their own sacred deductions).
So, to your answer - will things change? Objects at rest tend to stay at rest.
/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7841923/GettyImages_84374977.jpg)
