What are you talking about? Democrats and Republican women asked to be a part of working on the new bill. Bernie Sanders asked several times why they were building the bill without having hearings on it and allowing motions for amendments... the Republicans simply thought they had enough people that they could tell everyone else to **** off and they would pass whatever they came up with. That didn't happen and then they complained no one wanted to work with them... they caused their own fiasco.
We are not talking about a working healthcare plan in Obamacare. Obamacare has failed. People are going without treatment, people can't afford their own coverage. This is not made up, I see it in my own circle of family and friends. So one would think that at least ONE DEMOCRAT would want to fix that as soon as possible...wouldn't you?
Yep, and people went without treatment before the ACA became the law. Now, less people are crowded into ER's and placing a burden on local government budgets; less people are not stuck on COBRA, and those people with an existing health condition are able to be insured by the exchange.
The ONLY well-designed feature of ACA was the handling of Pre-Existing and pushing the Insurers back on that. You didn't need to tear up 90% of individual plans and forcibly throw folks into the pool to fix the 10 or 14% "uninsured". MOST of those folks don't need crappy subsidized insurance plans that will bankrupt them if they USE HealthCare. They need first $$$$ subsidies for the DEDUCTIBLES and expenses.. Which none of the "expansion" folks are getting.
You're cynically sticking these working poor with plans that don't pay a DIME until $3000 or $5000 deductibles are met. And THEN -- you're HIDING the actual costs of the expansion by making everyone else (like me) in the pool SUBSIDIZE the expansion with rapidly accelerating premiums.