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You've got a better example in your back pocket if you ever need to use it: Obamacare was previously Romneycare which was originally a Heritage Foundation spec
by underlipton 2y ago
You've got a better example in your back pocket if you ever need to use it: Obamacare was previously Romneycare which was originally a Heritage Foundation spec bill. Republicans went on a decade-long campaign to dismantle a system that they wrote because a Democratic president implemented it.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThey didn't actually dismantle it though, and it seems unlikely that the bill that actually passed was an unmodified publication of the Heritage Foundation. This seems more like the Motte and Bailey disease in an election cycle. Both parties pass a bill that they both like 75% of, but then they need something to campaign on. So one party says "we're going to repeal the dastardly bill" and cites the parts of it they don't like. The other party says "they say they're going to repeal the vital bill, we have to stop them" and cites the parts of it that everybody likes. Then if the complaining party gets in they keep the parts everybody likes and maybe change some of the other parts. Never confuse what politicians say they're going to do with what they're actually going to do.
- underlipton 2y ago>They didn't actually dismantle it though They weakened it considerably, and also spent a lot of time and money that could have been spent on other problems trying to repeal it altogether. >it seems unlikely that the bill that actually passed was an unmodified publication of the Heritage Foundation. I feel like it would be rather trivial to determine if the initially-proposed ACA and the HF version were substantially different. You don't have to "seems unlikely" it; go and check.