Kellyanne Conway has confirmed that the White House is willing to repeal the ACA without a replacement in place. I’m no economist, but I am a dyed in the wool capitalist, and this plan smells like a recipie for economic disaster.
And yet, this should not come as a surprise to anyone. Remember that fucking shit up is what Republicans believe they were elected to do.
White House aide Kellyanne Conway said Monday that Republicans could repeal Obamacare without also replacing it, which would violate Trump’s prior pledge to do both at once.
“Very hopeful, very confident that the President can have the bill on his desk this summer,” Conway told “Fox & Friends.”
“In terms of the procedure,” she added later, “it could either be repealed and replaced at same time, or you could do what happened in the 2015 Senate bill, where every Republican senator who was there except for one voted, and they voted to immediately do away with the penalties and taxes under Obamacare, they dealt with Medicaid as well.”
“The only thing that’s changed since their vote in 2015 to repeal Obamacare and now is that you have a Republican president willing to sign that into law,” Conway said. “And you have the failures of Obamacare that much more crisp and obvious in front of you.”
Until Friday, Trump had pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare at the same time — as opposed to simply repealing it and charging lawmakers with crafting a replacement in a separate bill.
