How Bad Can It Get? Wait and See.

The Republicans have introduced a bill to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. The new bill's title is a lie: "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." The non-partisan CBO has provided the (required) analysis of the bill. The Republican's push to repeal the AHCA shows at least two things. First they are not serious about reducing the deficit, given that repeal would add billions to the budget shortfall. Second, they don't care a whit about ordinary Americans, 32 million of which would be left uninsured under repeal as compared to the AHCA. Republican leadership has exempted the bill from their requirement that all legislation that increases the deficit be offset by cuts elsewhere. Apparently lying has become a reflex for Congressional Republicans.