Well, the Republicans have finally done it. They have all but killed the Affordable Care Act. It wasn’t the repeal they had spent the last 16 years trying to get, but it made it unaffordable for millions of Americans. And after 16 years, they still don’t have a viable alternative to the ACA.
The Republicans’ failure is so epic that Rep Jim McGovern brought and went through all the receipts documenting their failure, and that too was epic:
But the truth is, they’ve always said they’d have a plan, but they’ve never had a plan. Let me just go through a list of things here.
In February of 2016, then presidential candidate Donald Trump said, We’re going to replace Obamacare with something so much better. Nothing followed. On February 27th of 2017, the president said, We have a really terrific, I believe, health care plan coming out. Never did. May 10th, 2018, Donald Trump said, But wait till you see the plans that we have coming out literally over the next four weeks. We have a great health care plan coming out. Nothing happened. At a press gaggle near Air Force One in May of 2019, he said, We’re coming up with a great health care plan. We’re going to have a fantastic health care plan. It’s coming out in the next four weeks. Nothing ever materialized. June 16, 2019, the president said, We’re going to produce a phenomenal health care plan, and we already have the concept of a plan, and it will be so much better at health care. Yeah, well, we’ll be announcing it in about two months, maybe less. Nothing happened.
