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Originally Posted by eyebooger
A couple of months ago I was like "at least there's no chance the Senate will pass anything like the house bill".
ahahaha I'm so stupid. I don't even know how to account for it. Like the things that supposedly make "moderate" Republicans OK with the bill (we'll eliminate medicaid expansion in 7 years instead of 3!) are completely nonsensical given the concerns they've expressed, you know, about hurting people that rely on the program. It's just pure nihilism. It's not even electorally driven nihilism, as far as I can tell. The bills are very unpopular.
Apparently the calculation is that the politics of defending not repealing obamacare is worse than the politics of passing an absolutely garbage piece of legislation. WAAF
Last edited by well named; 06-22-2017 at 01:23 PM.
Reason: "medicaid expansion" instead of "medicaid"