Why the AHCA Failed

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1. The answer is obvious, the current Republicans don't do policy, they only do SPITE

and they rushed to get a repeal done on the 7th anniversary of the ACA's passage. They are largely symbolic thinkers and the symbolism of this is unmistakable. Failing to achieve a vote on that day, withdrawal of this hastily cobbled together botch of a "health plan" should have been a foregone conclusion.

The fact that it was pushed as a budget blll was especially telling, it was a tax cut for rich donors and a slap in the face to our first black president, nothing more. They had no intention of providing anything but those two things.

Consider that they tried to kill the plan for seven full years and over multiple failed votes. During that seven years, none of them bothered to come up with an alternative plan, only to kill the one we got. Even the few Republicans who are actually concerned with policy were uninterested in health policy.

This author, like most conservative authors, is trying. However, he's missed the essential nature of this whole fiasco.