02-12-2019, 05:16 PM
(02-12-2019, 01:32 PM)michaelsean Wrote: If I recall, the idea was floated about in the 90s, and was never attempted in Congress. I'm not sure how something Republicans never attempted to vote on is the bill they always wanted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/01/set-health-record-straight-republicans-helped-craft-obamacare-ross-baker-column/523952001/
It started with a plan drafted by the GOP in the 90s. Clinton (who got a fair amount of support from Big Pharma) wasn't supportive and it got pushed aside in the whole "Contract with America" fervor. Obama and Democrats dusted it off thinking it would get Republican support. It didn't. At least, not officially. Republicans were a part of it, they just didn't want that being on the surface. You can't take a direction of "socialism is bad and all Democrats are socialists" and then support socialized medicine. They'd have lost all credibility.
It's much like the wall. Many Democrats are in favor of it, but they drew a line of 'no wall, no way.' So they can't support it on the surface. Hence the 'let's debate in private.'
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