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Not only is repeal dead, some Congressional Republicans have started working with Dems to 'save' ObamaCare

By Robert Laurie ——--August 3, 2017

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Make no mistake. If it's left to function as it was designed to function, ObamaCare WILL implode. It's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when." There's no 'fix' that will stop this, either. There are a few things that can be done to help the law limp along - at an increased expense to taxpayers - but there's no permanent remedy. You can't repair something that was built, purposely, to fail. It's working exactly as intended. That's why repealing it was so important. This chaos ends one of two ways: elimination of the law, or single payer.
Dan already discussed the fact that the Senate has all but given up on the effort to get rid of Obama's signature trainwreck. He refers to this as "inaction." I disagree. Well before the 2016 election I was of the opinion that Republicans were lying to us. I believe a great many, if not a majority, of them have always wanted ObamaCare to remain in place. If I'm right, what you're seeing now isn't "inaction." It's an affirmative measure designed to save a law the people hate, but politicians love - because it immeasurably expands the scope of the federal government. ...And today we have some evidence that this is precisely the case. According to the New York Times, several GOPers have begun the process of working with Democrats - to prolong the misery created by the Affordable Care Act.
Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump’s threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies, maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore up insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the influential chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that his panel would begin work in early September on legislation to “stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market” for 2018. He publicly urged Mr. Trump to continue making payments to health insurance companies to reimburse them for reducing the out-of-pocket medical expenses of low-income people.
In the House, two Republicans, Representatives Tom Reed of New York and Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, teamed with Democrats to promote incremental health legislation that would also fund the cost-sharing subsidies. The moves were a remarkable response to the president’s repeated threats to send health insurance markets into a tailspin. They offered tangible indications of cooperation between the parties after Republican efforts to scrap the Affordable Care Act collapsed in the Senate last week, all but ending the seven-year Republican quest to overturn President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.
The New York Times acknowledges that many states are once again facing massive insurance rate hikes. They cite California, which has announced a 12.5% average increase for next year. However, without the cost-sharing payments mentioned above, the increase would be at least double that.
In California, the state agency that runs the insurance marketplace announced on Tuesday that rates would increase by 12.5 percent on average next year. That is slightly lower than the rate increases Californians saw this year. But Peter V. Lee, the executive director of the agency, Covered California, said the average increase would be twice as high for popular “silver” plans if the Trump administration blocked the cost-sharing payments. “This policy allowed health plans to stay in the market when they might have left otherwise,” Mr. Lee said of the potential additional increase, which he called a “surcharge.”

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In other words, Republicans are now working with Democrats to circumvent the President, bail out insurance companies, further subsidize Obama's disaster, spend more of YOUR money on a failing system that's doomed to collapse, and are actually trying to rescue a law they spent 8 years promising to repeal. Yesterday, I discussed GOP Representative Ken Buck's claim that the "Republican Party is dead." Today I wonder why we're being asked to care. If the Republican Party is going to exist only to prove itself a vile collection of betrayers, why should anyone support it? Why vote for a Republican in 2018? If the last decade has now been proven to be 10 years of hollow posturing and false principles, why would any of these people expect us to donate or turn up at the polls?
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