truthdogg
Here’s what’s next for the Affordable Care Act.
Trump and Graham both showed us their cards today, and clearly conveyed that ACA destruction now moves from Paul Ryan to Tom Price.
If the bill is dead, as it appears to be, the internal sabotage of the ACA will ramp up very quickly. This has already been going on at a state level since its implementation, but the GOP put Price at HHS specifically because of his hatred for the law. It will now be strategically underfunded and poorly administrated as a matter of course.
The intent will be to sabotage its new popularity by sabotaging its function.
By all reasonable measures this shouldn’t work. Voters should see through this charade. People have been learning that they like having health insurance that’s reliable and the law’s popularity is up, but confirmation bias is a powerful thing. Conservatives know that all they need to in order to shore up their activist base is to demonstrate government failure. We’ve seen this play before, and it works in the US, just like it would work anywhere that voter turnout is low enough for an activist base to influence an election.
Because Ryan didn’t give in to the Freedom Caucus’s demands to destroy health insurance for almost everyone, he’ll now be painted as a reasonable moderate by a media clamoring to interview a sane-looking person from the right. The Republican Party will immediately attack him for that stance, as they shift to their old standby “it would’ve worked if only it was more conservative” argument, to spin the deliberate destruction.
We hear this argument after every GOP-initiated disaster or GOP loss. It is as predictable as the setting sun.
Call it “explode” or call it “collapse,” this familiar strategy of deliberately bad government starts today.
bugcthulhu
well there you go they’re running on spite now
ikaricrossinglines
This tactic has been happening for some time here in the UK, with our government literally trying to starve our healthcare to death in the hopes of convincing the public that private care companies are a better shot.
We know better and despite our constant grumbling, the people of Britain love and support our NHS almost unilaterally. The battle goes on and often NHS workers are supported and respected in other ways too. Discounts in certain stores for example, the kind that are also given to armed forces members or firefighters. The work of our healthcare service is still at this time, seen as morally imperative. It is a sentiment that I think Drumpf wants to crush before it begins.
My advice would be to remind people that it is THEIR healthcare, not the Governments, and that the current administration is damaging THEIR livelihood, not “saving money” or whatever spurious guise they will use for their excuses.
sception
The ‘deliberately bad governance’ in order to justify privatization is a tactic of right wing politicians everywhere.
