GOP Health Care Plans Have Been Awful So Far: That’s Why They Haven’t Gotten a Single Repeal & Replace Plan Through Congress and to the President’s Desk for His Signature or Veto

The GOP is on the verge of shelving their latest healthcare plan after failing to convince enough Senators on their side to support the current bill.

There’s several very good reasons why it has failed so far, and why it will continue to fail.  The plans have simply been awful.  They propose throwing out what’s already in place and throwing too many Americans out of the market and costing jobs, while offering less coverage.  That’s a recipe for disaster, and something that makes Democratic crossovers extremely unlikely.

From my point of view, the whole point of the healthcare problem is to lower premiums, lower deductibles for Americans to make it affordable and offer more choices to the American people, and to enroll more people to make it self-sustaining.  That means fixing what’s already in place.

The GOP leadership will need Democratic help to overcome those who want to get rid of everything.  I won’t support that position (complete repeal) until they come up with something better than what’s in place now.  I was in favor of it, but not with the plans that the GOP has been coming up with. 

I think that’s also why so many don’t like the GOP repeal and replace plans put forward so far.  President Trump did the right thing by getting rid of the mandate, and that’s the only thing that’s been done correctly to this date.