http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/health-care-trump-repeal-1.4210334"Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. "We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans."
I'm sorry, but how the FUCK is it Democrats' fault that a bill aimed at dismantling the previous (Democratic) President's signature accomplishment in favour of a system that would almost certainly have worse outcomes and was actually just a massive tax cut for the rich disguised as heath-care reform failed?
Dems have their own ideas: they already passed the ACA (which, as I will point out again, is a Republican idea in origin), many would vote to add a public option, and John Conyers' House bill to create a single-payer system has over half the Democratic caucus as co-sponsors, and Sanders will, unlike when he last attempted it, likely get quite a few Democratic Senators as co-sponsors for his own single-payer bill in the Senate that he has vowed to introduce.
The Dems are not lacking ideas for health-care reform, and already implemented one of them. Admittedly, that bill was a bandaid over a severed artery (hey, like other bills like Dodd-Frank!), but it was better than nothing. They'd come to the table to talk about things like public options (like they tried to do in Nevada before the Republican Governor vetoed it) or single-payer systems (like they tried to do in Vermont before medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies threatened to jack up their prices), but not to talk about bills that will strip millions of people of health insurance and lead to more deaths from lack of access to basic preventative care and more medical bankruptcies, the number-one cause of personal bankruptcy in the US and something virtually unknown in other modern nations.
"The core of this bill is unworkable," Schumer said in a statement. He said Republicans "should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the markets and improves our health-care system."
Of course, a public option, or a single-payer system, would do those things...
