Republicans Announce They Won’t Destroy Healthcare Until After 2020 Election

It only lasted about a week, but the Republicans’ latest attempts to dismantle the already-fragile American healthcare system have come to an end…for now. Donald Trump now says that Republicans will wait until after the 2020 Presidential (and Congressional) elections before they begin taking apart the Affordable Care Act. This was a calculated move by the Republicans, and Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s behind this sudden shift by the Party.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So we actually have a little bit of good news today and that good news is they're Republicans have finally agreed that they're not going to completely dismantle health care for the United States until after the 2020 presidential election. So we've got, you know, what, a year and a half to continue with Obamacare before Republican's come along and just completely destroy it and kick tens of millions of people off their current insurance and basically prohibit people with preexisting conditions from ever being able to afford coverage. Again, that is what the Republicans are telling us. Mitch McConnell came out yesterday. It said, look, I've talked to the president. I told him, we can't do this right now. It will have to wait till after the 2020 election. Donald Trump actually listened to McConnell and he said, we're gonna wait. We're gonna put it off until after 2020 when I win back. The White House.

Republicans get a bigger majority in the Senate and Republicans win back the House of Representatives. And then literally just a few hours later, Donald Trump tweeted out the following. He said, Republicans are developing it really great healthcare plan for with far lower premiums and deductibles than Obamacare and other words that will be far less expensive and much more usable than Obamacare vote will be taken right after the election when Republicans hold the Senate and win back the house. So according to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump from earlier in the day, they're not even worried about healthcare right now. They're not doing anything with it. They're not coming up with a plan. That was the deal. And then Trump on Twitter a few hours later says, no, we're working on planning right now. We're going to have it in place. We're going to be ready to go. We're going to pass it as soon as the 2020 elections are over with and everything is great and Republicans rule everything again, not going to happen.

Okay?

What's happening here right now is one, Donald Trump is too stupid to know when to keep his mouth shut, but two, the reason that Republicans want to kick the can even further down the road is because they know they don't have any ideas in spite of railing against the Democrats on the issue of healthcare for a decade now, Republicans have still been unable to come up with a single viable plan that the American public would like their last Obamacare alternative that they tried to use for their repeal and replace had a 12% approval rating among the public 12%

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