“Their base has put faith in them to deliver a better, per-
haps more fiscally conservative, more efficient and
better priced healthcare system”
exchanges are starting to col-
lapse (though not at the rate
Republicans are suggesting)
and premiums are spiralling
out of control in places, but
none of the measures put for-
ward by the Republicans legiti-
mately address these con-
cerns.
After two failed attempts the
House Republicans managed
to pass a bill that the Congres-
sional Budget Office (CBO) has
predicted would take health in-
surance away from around 23
million people over the next
few years. The bill's passage
was a victory for Trump, having
struggled to cobble
Their base has put faith in
them to deliver a better, per-
haps more fiscally conserva-
tive, more efficient and better
priced healthcare system -
something they promised time
and again.
together a coherent coalition
of factions within the GOP be-
fore previous votes on the bill.
After the bill was pulled before
a vote on the second occasion
he told CNN "Lots of different
groups. Lots of factions and
there's been a long history of
liking and disliking within the
Republican Party long before I
got here".
It became one of the central
tenets of Trump's Presidential
campaign, promising the
"repeal and replace of
Obamacare" on 68 separate
occasions. It was meant to be
one of the central focuses of
his administration, to repeal
Obamacare and replace it with
"something much, much bet-
ter", Trump was adamant that
his bill would take care of eve-
rybody, lower premiums and
deductibles, and stop the col-
lapse of the health exchanges.
Aside from Trump, the bill is an
obvious victory for the so
called, "donor class" of Ameri-
cans. An analysis released by
the Joint Committee on Taxa-
tion predicted that the House
bill would cut taxes by $662 bil-
lion over the next decade, pri-
marily through repealing
Obamacare taxes on the
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