EDITORIAL: Now that Cassidy’s healthcare bill is dead, it’s on the Democrats to make the next move
The last-ditch effort for repeal was one led in large part by a relatively junior senator,
It became a tangle, not because of bad intentions from Cassidy or co-authors like the respected
Taking away, or simply seeming to endanger, the coverage gains under Obamacare is clearly a nonstarter politically. That couldn't get the
If Cassidycare did not make it -- and it didn't even come to a vote -- what comes next?
That's where
Acting on Napoleon's dictum, don't interfere with the enemy destroying himself, they committed in a bloc to oppose the Republican repeal bills. That had the political result they desired, as only a few
And in fairness,
Alexander, and Cassidy, earlier demonstrated their willingness to work outside party lines on the mental health issues in health care. Why not make that a model for a fix to problems with Obamacare?
It won't be the comprehensive "repeal and replace" that folks like Cassidy campaigned for. But for anything at all to pass the
The embrace of some form of national health insurance or "Medicare for all" by some
For political reasons, maybe, Obamacare amended still may not be palatable to
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