ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Bob Butler 54]

One more failure at repeal and replace.

It seems there are just barely enough Republicans who care that people have a path to decent health care that the repeal part isn't going to fly until a path at the decent health care is there?

The story is that Obama spent so much of his political capitol on health care that he didn't have enough left after to push any sort of legislative agenda.  Trump seems determined to repeat the pattern, pushing health care and refusing to move on.

Meanwhile the wild mix of private, government and corporate health care with the insurance companies taking their cut of the top isn't appealing compared to what other nations have achieved.

But it doesn't seem to be the progressives that face a problem.  The easily made promises to provide a better and cheaper health care were just impossible.  You get what you pay for.  The conservatives seem to remember the repeal promises, but a lot of their congressmen are trying hard to bypass the replace promises.  Just enough remember and care.