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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Health Care: Spending a year with people actually thinking about what to change that could get through Congress might be a good thing. An actually functional HC act would be a good thing. And I've felt forever that 2018 and the "Ford Pinto" tax kicking in would be the point that makes clear the ACA was a really evil deal. Once 50% of America sees its HC significantly lowered there might be critical mass to fix some shit.
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We have one party that's fully willing to fix some shit. And one that is still posturing only.
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And the failure to push through some half-baked hate act, despite the "it is all in our control" gives me a little bit of hope that we will ultimately be able to get through this*?
*this being the next years, not just HC
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The dark thought of the morning is that an incapacititated legislative branch may actually facilitate authoritarian creep. Let's hope not.