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Originally Posted by Riverman
I think the GOP bet is that people won't make the connection between finding out their "insurance" is worthless and the Republican Party. Sadly, I don't think they are wrong. Many will just blame "insurance companies." And a sizeable chunk of deplorables will blame libs somehow (Obamacare so terrible we can't even fix it or something)
This is exactly what I expect to happen. I think they're going to force insurance companies to sell to people with pre-existing conditions, with little to no requirements on pricing or what's covered. Thus they can say, "We preserved important protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Everyone in America has access to health insurance, which is a beautiful thing and a huge improvement over job-killing death-panel ISIS-loving Obamacare."
They'll lift regulations on what must be included in all plans, which will bring premiums down. So they'll brag on that, too. When people start figuring out that they don't actually have coverage for a lot of different illnesses/emergencies/whatever, they'll blame Obamacare and say they couldn't fix it all at once because that commie, traitor, Kenyan, Muslim, ISIS-founding Nancy Pelosi loving liberal worst POTUS of all time Barack Hussein Obama didn't care about hard working Americans.
If that doesn't work, they'll publicly take shots at the insurance industry while taking their money and giving them secret handshakes in the smoky backrooms.
When all else fails, they'll wring their hands over making sure that lazy unemployed people don't get any undeserved benefits and say that's why they can't really fix it. The lazy unemployed white Trumpers will intuitively understand that this doesn't really apply to them, and keeping pulling the lever for the good old GOP.