When one strips away the partisan rhetoric and posturing, the practical impact of Friday's GOP failure to repeal Obamacare has a specific monetary impact: approximately $1 trillion.
Following President Trump's clarifying tweet yesterday that "Obamacare will explode" on its own...
ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that, even without the 'repeal', the Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of Obamacare.
Via Global Macro Monitor,
OK, comrades, let’s check our partisanship at the door and deal with some real analysis on the health care bill that just went down in flames. Here are a few of our thoughts on why the Trump/Ryan healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare went down and some economics behind it...
1) Most important, the bill had no support throughout the country. The latest poll released Thursday afternoon showed that only 17 percent of the country supported the plan.
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Illinois voters are voting with their feet. Not only are people scrambling to get out of Cook County, but the entire state is suffering.
Illinois Policy Institute writer Michael Lucci explains in this guest post on Cook County Migration.
Cook County has Largest Population Loss of Any County in U.S.
Saudi Arabia has become the least appropriate winner of a medal since Barack Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize, after the CIA awarded the Saudi Crown Prince the “George Tenet Medal” for his country’s supposed [...]