Even Conservatives Hate Trumpcare

Jonathan Chait: “The Republican Party in its modern incarnation is incapable of writing a decent health-care bill, if we define ‘decent’ to mean both some level of technical competence as well as morally decent. That inability has been clear to the party’s outside critics for many years. Republicans have fervently denied this, and probably believed their own denials. As a result they locked themselves into a course of action that forced them to propose a bill on a deadline. They seem to have realized the impossibility of the task midway through, but, unable to retreat on their commitment, they instead rushed out a plan that is shambolic and cruel.”

“The best indication of the quality of the plan is that it has drawn almost universal scorn from the health-care-policy community. It’s predictable that experts on the left would dislike Trumpcare. But the right seems barely any more favorable. Conservatives like Peter Suderman, Philip Klein, Bob Laszewski, and Avik Roy, who have spent years savaging Obamacare, are united in their disdain for its replacement.”

The Hill: “Outside conservative groups on Tuesday blasted House Republicans’ newly unveiled health care proposal, saying it doesn’t live up to the GOP’s promise of fully repealing Obamacare.”

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