#1: I am not the first person to point out that McCain had almost a $100,000 health care bill paid for by the government so he could come back to Washington and vote against giving other people health care.
#2: As a field representative for California state senator Jerry Smith in the early 80s, I learned that when a major piece of legislation passed in CA, the following year the legislature adopted a “clean-up” bill. That was to take care of unanticipated consequences of the legislation, and it was considered routine.
Obviously the Affordable Care Act has some flaws. Democratic legislators and President Obama knew that. Unfortunately, the Republicans were not interested in fixing the legislation. Their whole emphasis from day one was to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
#3: We should let the Republicans pass their repeal. It is cruel, since millions of people will lose their health insurance, and people will die. I am not kidding: people will die. Perhaps that is what it takes to bring home the message that votes have consequences; that voting for Trump has consequences.
The other thing to consider is that the Trump administration has already taken steps to undermine the Affordable Care Act. That way he can point to the failure of the Act and say “I told you so.” This is a deliberate strategy, detailed recently in the New York Times. So my feeling, heartless as it is, is go ahead. Repeal it. Take responsibility for the misery you are about to cause.
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