“WE are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” With those words the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted that Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump—proud author of “The Art of the Deal”—have failed their first big test as a governing party.
For seven years Republicans have run against Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling it socialism, a government power-grab and accusing the law of instituting “death panels” that could deny older Americans care by bureaucratic fiat. When Barack Obama was still in the White House and wielded the veto pen of a president, House Republicans voted more than 50 times to repeal the ACA, knowing that these were empty show votes.
On taking power in January Republicans announced that their first priority was a law repealing as much of the ACA as possible, using fast-track rules that apply to certain sorts of budget bills, with some replacement elements to follow in two further stages. The repeal bill was rushed through committees and readied for a vote, though it was far from clear that it had the numbers to pass. In a signature move from Mr Trump’s business...Continue reading
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