If elected, the GOP will repeal the ACA, first concocting a few bills of their own to accomplish its most popular provisions, which they never would have done otherwise. Of course they will scream about the mandate (a.k.a. tax on the comfortable deadbeat who doesn’t want to pay for his health insurance but still expects to be treated in an emergency): getting rid of it will help drive up the cost of health insurance, and THAT they can blame on the Democrats. The real problem with the ACA is that it will take years for its full effects to appear, and it bugs to be worked out. And all that while the GOP can ignore its benefits (direct and indirect) and keep hammering the idea that freedom from fear (of medical bankruptcy or death by inches through untreated chronic disease) is not freedom but tyranny. The GOP with correctly crow that the ACA is not a panacea. Well, they can repeal it if they like, and won’t object in the least, as long as they replace it with something as good or better. I myself would prefer a simpler and more elegant solution.
If elected, the GOP will repeal the ACA, first concocting a few bills of their own to accomplish its most popular provisions, which they never would have done otherwise. Of course they will scream about the mandate (a.k.a. tax on the comfortable deadbeat who doesn’t want to pay for his health insurance but still expects to be treated in an emergency): getting rid of it will help drive up the cost of health insurance, and THAT they can blame on the Democrats. The real problem with the ACA is that it will take years for its full effects to appear, and it bugs to be worked out. And all that while the GOP can ignore its benefits (direct and indirect) and keep hammering the idea that freedom from fear (of medical bankruptcy or death by inches through untreated chronic disease) is not freedom but tyranny. The GOP with correctly crow that the ACA is not a panacea. Well, they can repeal it if they like, and won’t object in the least, as long as they replace it with something as good or better. I myself would prefer a simpler and more elegant solution.