What does GOP think will come after they sabotage (or repeal) Obamacare?

Comrade Trump, are you listening? Just after the election I wrote (Goodbye Obamacare? More like hello single payer!) to lay out my vision of where Republican dysfunction and ideology could ultimately lead. At the time I said: Trump himself has been at least a liberal and frankly more of a socialist when it comes to health care policy, at least based on his earlier writings. Once he learns that the ideas of the conservatives in Congress won’t produce universal coverage, he may well go back to improving –instead of replacing– Obamacare, moving to a Canadian style single payer system, or opening up Medicare for all, just like Bernie and much more radical than Hillary. The last six months of Republican flailing on healthcare makes it even more likely that socialism will ultimately come to the US healthcare system. Here’s why: Americans –and that includes Republicans– now expect insurance to be available without restriction or penalty to those with so-called pre-existing conditions. Everyone wants lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and Obamacare opponents are beating up on the ACA for failing to deliver. But nothing the GOP is doing is helping advance these goals. Most of GOP proposals actually undermine these objectives. Meanwhile, Trump and Congress are creating uncertainty about the exchanges and actively undermining them, e.g., by refusing to enforce the mandate, talking about exchanges failing, and using public money meant for promotion of Oba...
Source: Health Business Blog - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Policy and politics single payer Source Type: blogs