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Kingpoleon
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« on: October 16, 2017, 11:25:19 PM »

Personally, I still hope for Wyden-Bennett to pass on a bipartisan basis.
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Kingpoleon
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2017, 06:34:53 PM »

Personally, I still hope for Wyden-Bennett to pass on a bipartisan basis.

I'm pretty sure you're the only person that even cares about that bill anymore.

It might be worth asking why that is the case.  Wyden-Bennett had bipartisan support in the Senate in 2008, but once Obama and the Democrats started crafting the ACA it was never seen from again.  The blowback the Dems took from healthcare probably would have been smaller if they just owned it and added things like the Medicaid expansion and pre-existing conditions rule (and a public option if they didn't have to appease useless assholes like Joe Lieberman).

I think the main problem is that the HAA fixes many problems in the healthcare industry, which politicians can’t really afford. It would be too popular, too effective for either side to try to make it more in line with beliefs of their ideologues without backlash that would make the current backlash to repeal ACA seem like a grain of sand compared to a beach.
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