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They've been bitching about Obamacare for 7 years. They have the house, senate, the SCOTUS, and the presidency. They didn't need it but they would have even gotten left-wing support on a reasonable plan. They had universal support to do it. It was a "mandate".
And they couldn't do it.
7 years and their 2 ground-breaking ideas were removing the pre-existing conditions clause and removing caps on fees for old people.
Nothing removing state line insurance boundaries, no drug patent reform, no removing anti-generic drug producing laws, no allowing people to purchase medications from overseas, no getting individuals in the same larger pools as employer plans, none of anything that everyone on both sides of the aisle could have gotten behind.
Whaaaaaaaaat? I've never seen so much failure in politics. And I've seen some doozies! The Iraq War, Monica Lewinsky, I've seen some shit. And this trumps it all.
And they couldn't do it.
7 years and their 2 ground-breaking ideas were removing the pre-existing conditions clause and removing caps on fees for old people.
Nothing removing state line insurance boundaries, no drug patent reform, no removing anti-generic drug producing laws, no allowing people to purchase medications from overseas, no getting individuals in the same larger pools as employer plans, none of anything that everyone on both sides of the aisle could have gotten behind.
Whaaaaaaaaat? I've never seen so much failure in politics. And I've seen some doozies! The Iraq War, Monica Lewinsky, I've seen some shit. And this trumps it all.