Today's health care bill vote carries repercussions for GOP: Tuesday I wrote about some of the reasons why the House GOP health care bill should not pass. Today is the big vote and so we pose different questions: Will it pass and what are the repercussions of i...
MGB:_The ACA needs bipartisan adjustments and the premise that the entire Republican caucus must agree to a bill for it to pass is insanity. If they created a bill that at least half the Democrats could support, then they would not need the Freedom Caucus. Of course, to do that the minor tax cuts to the top 2% of families would have to stand or be replaced by a more general value added tax. The latter could happen as part of comprehensive tax reform, but the prior will not because it would be seen as throwing GOP donors under the bus. This bill may succeed, if so this is all choreography, but without Democratic support, the Conference Report has no chance. Failure may kill the issue, but the leadership might want that anyway. It is truly interesting to see whether the Freedom Caucus will grow up, support the bill and move it to the Senate, knowing that it will come back looking very different.
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