The only solution to the Obamacare disaster by Democrats is to throw more money at it. Healthcare costs have increased faster than core inflation for the last twenty years. And throwing more money at anything just drives up the rate of inflation. So the more money you throw at it the worse the problem becomes.
John McCain's misplaced patriotism (brain fart) ruined any chance of fixing our healthcare system and more money next year will not cure the problem. The increased taxes on healthcare providers is just pass through inflation. Medicaid expansion based on a subsidy provided to someone up to a percentage higher than the poverty level won't control costs as the level is based on core inflation not medical care inflation.
So without total repel this chronic disease known as Obamacare can't be fixed. Medicaid is Socialism lite. The mess is already $400 Billion over it's initial cost estimate in just seven years. Single payer is a joke even Bernie Sanders couldn't get in Vermont.
Trump is right. Let it implode. There's no way out of this mess until a 60 vote majority can fix the fundamental problems and that's never going to happen. Democrats own the failure. And Obamacare is what it will be remembered as. A total disaster just like McCain now.
If only the republicans would offer that great healthcare plan that would cover everybody, be cheaper, and not have any of the drawbacks that Obamacare has. I know they have a plan like that, because they have been promising it for 8 years. I wonder why they didn't vote on that plan instead of the piece of crap that just failed.
They offered up what could be done with reconciliation. You didn't understand what was meant with the 60 vote requirements. But without the first stage the rest couldn't be done.
Like I said, let it completely fail as medical care inflation is much higher than core inflation so there's no way to fix the clusterfuck. Just enjoy it. It can't succeed. And it will forever be called Obamacare. A complete failure.
It seems to me that the Dems/libs/progs have gotten exactly what they've been fighting for, a continuation of Obamacare. Since the Repubs failed to either repeal the ACA, or to pass something, anything else, we remain saddled with O-Care, and all that entails. Let it collapse. The Dems got what they wanted when the passed that abomination years ago, and now that any attempt to improve it have failed. Funny, everything the Dems claimed would happen if the Repubs managed to pass something else: higher costs, poorer care, fewer people covered, etc, has actually been happening every single year Obamacare has been in force.