Trumpcare Megathread: It's dead (for now)

[Holmes]

It's so sad that so many people are lying about the negative implications of the bill in order to push their partisan agenda. Over 20 million losing their health insurance, and they don't care. And for what? What are they gaining? It's sad.

[Holmes]

I know it sounds ridiculous but politics is big for me. I truly wanted to see some decent conservative policy implementation and now it looks like nothing will get done before the dems take the house, and that makes trump a lameduck for 2 years until he loses reelection.

Probably.

[Holmes]

Vox has an interesting article on shifting American attitudes on the government and health care.  Using data from Gallup and Pew polls, they found a huge swing in just the last four years.  On the question of  whether it's the federal government's responsibility to ensure that all Americans have health coverage, the results were:

2013: 42/56 (-14)
2014: 47/50 (-3)
2015: 51/47 (+4)
2016: 51/46 (+5)
2017: 60/39 (+21)

That's a net change of +16 in the last year, and an astonishing +35 over four years.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/16/16158918/voxcare-poll-government-run-health-care

People who disapprove of ObamaCare from the left will switch back to saying they disapprove of it after Republicans stop trying to repeal it.

The numbers are for whether it's the government's responsibility that everyone has health care, not Obamacare's approvals.