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ObamaCare was always a trap

Obamacare repeal narrowly passes House 217-213



Second time’s the charm. Paul Ryan finally managed to get the “repeal” of ObamaCare through the House. Repeal is mostly a word though. It’s a partial repeal and replacement. Which is what the agenda was ever since the last round of elections. The real show though will be in the Senate. And, for better or worse, the Senate leadership seems more capable than Ryan.

ObamaCare was always a trap

ObamaCare was always a trap. Once it had set in, it would have taken plenty of political courage to actually repeal it. Everything else is splitting the difference. ObamaCare was unsustainable, apart from whatever the Republicans did. Repeal though was a judo move that shifted the blame to Republicans. Suddenly ObamaCare, a wonderful program, became TrumpCare. This probably is far from the end of the road. Republicans want to get this done well before midterm elections because they know that anything they do will be unpopular. That’s the whole point of interfering in a vital market. You create winners and losers. But undoing it also creates winners and losers. And so there’s a tug of war between trying to repeal well and repeal fast. And fast is winning for reasons of political pragmatism. And maybe that is the only way. This article first appeared at FrontPageMag.

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Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.


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