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Republicans said they wanted to repeal and replace Obamacare because the exchanges were “broken.” By that they meant deductibles and premiums were too high and insurers were pulling out, leaving fewer choices and less price containment via competition. The Senate bill makes those things worse - taken the minimum actuarial value of the plans from 70 to 58 percent (i.e., the insurer has to pick up less and you have to pick up more of the cost), phasing out subsidies at a lower income point (350 percent vs. 400 percent of the poverty line) and...
President Donald Trump’s apologists were convinced that the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the strikes on Syria and the mega-bomb dropped in Afghanistan signaled Trump had “grown.” He’s learning on the job! He’s coming back into the mainstream! As we’ve seen each and every time he showed signs of maturing, excitement over momentary improvement was vastly overblown. Consider this past week: - Trump was uninformed or lied about the whereabouts of the USS Vinson, falsely suggesting the “armada” was heading for North Korea. - While foreign...
Republican Senate and House leaders who have summarily decided on a “repeal and dawdle” plan for Obamacare don’t seem to understand what they are up against. They see House and Senate majorities, an incoming president who vowed to repeal all of Obamacare and a reconciliation process that allows them to gut Obamacare taxes and subsidies, essentially killing the program with 51 votes in the Senate. Do they understand it won’t be that easy? The first problem is Republicans in the House and Senate. Several Republicans have already voiced doubts...
Reports suggesting that the search for a third candidate has stalled, lacks money or faces insurmountable hurdles to qualifying for ballots in 50 states are inaccurate. Bill Kristol, editor of Weekly Standard and one of several Republicans driving the search, recently told this column: “Our research and groundwork show an independent bid is doable. I think someone credible will seize the moment within the next couple of weeks.” And yet the problem of finding an actual candidate has dogged the group. There is no doubt that Sen. Ben Sasse, R-N...
