CNBC host Joe Kernen raked Republicans, Trump and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett over the coals for never having an actual health care plan for America as the Trump administration is gathering steam to let the ACA subsides go away.
Kernen went back to before 2008 to bring Hassett up to speed.
KERNEN: I just want to go over, and maybe you can come up with what the Republican plan is.
So back before Obamacare, Republicans didn’t want to talk about healthcare.That left a huge opening for Obama, 2010, came up with this, what is really a mandate subsidy mess, I’m quoting Kimberly Strassel, which almost got repealed by a couple of physicians who led the way, Tom Price and Tom Coburn, but it didn’t.
She says that spurred a return to the dark ages, ever since 2017, where Republicans haven’t done anything to try and fix the problem. So these bump-ups that we’re going to see have nothing to do with the expiration of these COVID super subsidies.
It totally has to do because Obamacare is a flawed system that isn’t working. And yet, I guarantee you, watch your colleagues in some of the red states wimp out and decide that we’re going to pretend that we care, and we’re going to renew these subsidies.
HASSETT: Right.
Well, the bottom line is that we made some progress with the previous bill, and a lot of people share your opinion about Obamacare.
