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Originally Posted by Guest
I was just listening to Fox News Sunday. The topic was the Freedom Caucus and how THEY defeated TrumpfCare.
The Freedom Caucus demanded that the Pre-Existing Conditions requirement be REMOVED so premiums would be less (or so they could be paid off by insurance companies).
How would that provision go over with all Villagers?
The extreme Republicans are trying to screw you over again.
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I have found that Fox spends very little time on the actual content of the bill, and of corse on this forum, nobody discussing the actual content of the bill...just find an excuse for Trump....
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Trump's public comments about the healthcare bill gave individual Republicans in Congress two pieces of information that reduced their incentive to compromise with him about the bill's contents:
Trump doesn't really care what the bill does, exactly, so long as he can sign it and say that it "repeals and replaces" Obamacare.
Trump really, really wants to sign some bill quickly so he can get past this healthcare chore and move on to fun topics like trade and taxes.
You don't walk into a negotiation and tell your counterparty that you're desperate to make a deal fast and on any terms. But Trump did just that, which is why Freedom Caucus members knew the White House was bluffing when it claimed the bill was closed and wouldn't be amended further.
Trump invited the Freedom Caucus to squeeze him dry. Weak! Bad!
Trump eventually seemed to realize this error, claiming if no bill passed by Friday, he wouldn't participate in future efforts to repeal Obamacare.
But that threat was implausible because of his prior admissions. He should have read his own book:
The AHCA failed because Trump is bad at making deals - Business Insider