MGB:_The Freedom Caucus seems to think that if a health insurance market collapses in their state that this is a win. That depends on who the President is when it happens. Part of the bailiout in such a failure is more likely to be a single paer system with either the states or the federal government charging a payroll or value added tax to fund it.
Simply passing the House is not a worthy goal. The Freedom Caucus should have been thrown under the bus and negotiations should have occurrred with Leader Pelosi (except that Ryan is closet member). That would put replealing the surtaxes on non-wage income off the table and that repeal is the real goal of the bill. Unless you replace these taxes with a broader consumption tax and add a public opton (as part of tax reform), then reform should die, if not in the House than in the Senate.
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