Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://theresurgent.com/president-trump-exposes-planned-parenthood/

Swampcare: The Great Betrayal
By Erick Erickson |

Since 2010, Republicans have repeatedly promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which is now universally referred to as Obamacare. Last week, Republicans finally unveiled their alternative to Obamacare and it is best described as swampcare. Far from repealing Obamacare or replacing Obamacare, it only tweaks the Affordable Care Act and does nothing to drain the swamp.
Obamacare has never been popular. It has never polled above fifty percent. Democrats have invented a host of reasons why it polls so terribly including that people just do not realize Obamacare is the Affordable Care Act. It is simply not popular. More people were hurt by Obamacare than helped. It created a massive new and costly entitlement and expanded the least efficient, least effective existing entitlement program — Medicaid.

For all of its flaws, and the flaws outweigh the benefits, the Democrats included mechanisms to keep government spending on Obamacare from exploding in the first several years of the legislation’s enactment. Many of those provisions are the massively unpopular parts of the legislation. They include employer mandates on providing insurance, individual mandates forcing people to buy insurance, and taxes on generous healthcare plans.

In enacting their swampcare alternative, Republicans will scuttle all the things people have hated about Obamacare, but they will not restructure the legislation to save money. The Republicans’ plan will wind up costing taxpayers even more. On top of that, they are not really even getting rid of the individual mandate. Under swampcare, instead of paying the government a fine for failing to get insurance, people will pay insurance companies a penalty if they cancel insurance then get new insurance later. The constitutionality of that provision alone is dubious

Read it all.

This from Dana Mathewson

Bottom line: either ObamaCare goes down to ignominious defeat -- or the Trump Administration, along with what's left of the Republican party, does.

Fay Voshell replies:

Pretty much.

If the infrastructure of O care remains intact while Republicans tinker with the edges, then O is victorious. His legacy remains intact, as the foundations remain untouched. The Democrats win. Government universal healthcare wins. Control of our lives by government wins. Big government wins.

And so on and so forth.

Sigh..

Dana Mathewson answers:

And it appears to me (I may be mistaken, but I don't think so) that it's all because too many of the elephants in Washington don't want to work with Trump.

Tim replies:

I wonder if this isn't the point; Ryan and the Establishment hate Trump badly enough that they would put a poison pill legislation in play just to hurt him. They have to know America doesn't want this.

And a word for Jack Kemp:

s (and the rules - and the RINOs) hold us hostage, saying Swampcare is the most possible of first steps. He's read the entire bill online and sees savings for the middle class. I really can't judge this bill against something we want but can't get now, but in the last seven years the GOP was run by RINOs - and they still haven't left. I hope that Trump has some end run around Obamacare, such as making parts of it not required to buy by citizens which would mean a de facto defunding and death of Obamacare. This whole thing is a convoluted mess worthy of a Rocky and Bullwinkle parody of Congressional thought and (in)action.

And again from Mr. Birdnow:

Hmm. I'm not surprised; ERickson probably has trouble taking Trump's side. Oh, and that "rules hold us hostage" thing? Didn''t stop Harry Reid, why should it stop us? I don't know when the Republicans are going to learn to play hardball, but they had better do so soon. And it's past time they punished the Democrats for the "nuclear Option".

Here they have the Democrats nearly finished and they are going to let them walk away from this.

And Fay replies:

Ever since FDR (if not before) the Left has sent the agenda for big government while conservatives have reacted to the Left rather than setting the agenda even when they had the opportunity to do so.

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