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Trump Must Learn – Paul Ryan Does Not Want to Make America Great Again

Friday, March 24, 2017 7:01

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It is hard to know if the apparent demise of the Paul Ryan RINOCare bill that fails to repeal ObamaCare and does little but tweak the existing law around the edges truly has Trump’s support, or if Trump’s support of this failure of a bill is a plot to replace Ryan with a speaker that is on board with Making America Great Again.

This bill fails to repeal Obamacare and does not meet that campaign promise. Nor does it actually do anything to stop or even slow down the rapidly rising cost of Health Care. Mainly because it only addresses the symptom – the high and rising cost of insurance, and not the disease – the high and rising cost of health care itself.

Health Insurance is not health care. That is an important statement. Under Obamacare, being able to afford health insurance – a dubious claim in itself – does not mean you can afford health care. With deductibles and out of pocket expenses, the insurance doesn’t pay a dime until you have spent $5,000 or more out of your own pocket. And then you have to add in the cost of the monthly premiums.

Not only does RINOCare fail to change that, it also will cause costs to continue to rise. For several years.

And recent efforts to appease enough Republicans to get the votes to pass this lipstick augmented pig have only served to lessen the deficit reductions touted with the bill. Which is proof that Ryan and company are sweetening the deal for the liberal Republican vote and failing to appease the Freedom Caucus who are the only ones with the right ideas on the health care issue.

Passing this bill would be a disaster for the Republican Party. And it won’t be the Freedom Caucus that suffers at the polls. It will be the RINO’s who will lose the support from the grassroots. Costs will continue to rise, millions will lose their insurance, the deficit will continue to grow and the press and even many on the right will rightly cast blame at Trump and Paul Ryan.

Donald Trump has demanded a vote. All indications are that this bill will fail. Most Speakers would have pulled the bill rather than vote on it.

I am hoping that Trump demands Ryan step down as soon as this bill fails and asks for a Speaker to replace him that understands that full repeal means full repeal. And that it is not the federal government’s place to provide health insurance or health care for the country.

Of course Obamacare was designed to inflict irreparable damage to the insurance business and nudge the country into government provided single payer health care, so it’s tentacles must be unwound carefully and precisely. And it will take laws and government action to reverse the damage Obamacare inflicted. But the final goal should be to return health care and health insurance to the free market. Not perpetual government involvement.

At this point we must defeat this Obamacare band-aid that the big government Ryan devised in his office, reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid seven years ago.

I am incensed, but not surprised, that the stupid party has failed to have a plan ready. For seven long years they have raised billions of dollars from us promising to repeal Obamacare. And when we gave them the House, they failed to defund it as promised. And when we gave them the Senate because they said they couldn’t do anything with just the House, they again failed to address the problem. So we gave them the entire government. And they are on the precipice of failure with absolute power.

We should have known when the “Repeal” battle-cry became “repeal and replace” that we were about to get screwed. We never asked them to replace one government health plan with another. We wanted Obamacare gone. Not a simple substitution.

And as we listen to the Republicans whining that there is only so much they can do because of Senate rules – a Déjà vu reminding us all that they feigned impotence every step of the way – they now have the power to change the rules and make everything in the Senate a simple majority. God knows Harry Reid already blazed a path down the nuclear highway. Reid has already irrevocably diminished the Founder’s vision of a House close to the people complete with knee jerk legislation and the deliberative body called the Senate that would slow down or stop emotional laws that were bad for the nation. When Reid went “nuclear” with cabinet picks and federal judges, all pretense of the Senate as the vaunted deliberative body the Founder’s created is gone. (And we see the results of this decision with the asinine rulings from liberal activist Federal Judges Obama and Reid put on the bench every time a Trump Executive Order goes to court.)

The only things the Senate has left of it’s once deliberative nature is the approval of Supreme Court justices and budgetary votes.

And with the promise from the Democrat’s mental midget brain trust Chuck Schumer to filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch, coupled with the Republican’s promise to “go nuclear” to kill the filibuster, why do Republicans even pretend that Obamacare can’t be repealed because of Senate rules? The Senate is but a shell of it’s former self relegated to nothing more than the knee jerk legislation that the Founder’s wanted to keep in check. So why even pretend that it is something more? Whatever is left of 60 vote thresholds and 2/3 majority requirements when the Democrats take over the Senate will be deleted from the rules post haste. Only Constitutional restraints like Impeachment will retain the high bar to make sure there is at least some speed bump in the road to keep emotions in check.

It only takes a simple majority to change the rules. And the way things are going with this Obamacare repeal, the Republicans are running out of time as the holder of all the power.

Go back to the drawing board. Do this right. Ram it through and accept the inevitable reality that the Senate Rules are forever changed. And give us something that will actually take government out of health care and lower prices. You already know the path. Tort reform. Patient involvement. Knowing the prices in advance. Defensive medicine is killing us. Literally. The ideas are already well known.

Now approve Gorsuch. It only takes a simple majority because you make the rules. Get busy appointing the 50 or 60 Federal judges Obama left vacant. We need them. Especially in the 9th Circuit.

And kill Obamacare. Or the only thing being replaced will be you.

Below is a reminder of how Ryan really feels about Trump.