Clinton Win Could Pressure GOP to Heal, Not Repeal, Obamacare

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I wonder if this has any possibility of happening? I know Hillary has a plan to fix some things in the ACA.

I have always been an advocate for Medicare for all or the public option but I can not see that happening until those 60 votes are in view in the senate. Then there is the House to deal with.



Clinton Win Could Pressure GOP to Heal, Not Repeal, Obamacare

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-23/clinton-win-could-pressure-gop-to-heal-not-repeal-obamacare?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics

Alex Wayne

August 23, 2016 — 4:00 AM CDT


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...................These Republicans suggest that a Hillary Clinton presidency could shift the debate over the Affordable Care Act just enough to work on improvements with someone who isn’t the law’s namesake.

And it’s not just politics: Last week’s decision by one of the nation’s largest insurers, Aetna Inc., to withdraw almost entirely from the program’s insurance exchanges is the latest warning sign that Washington may have to act to prevent the law from unraveling. Many of the areas most affected by a potential loss of coverage are represented by Republicans.

Representative Scott DesJarlais, a Tennessee Republican and a doctor who has strongly backed Donald Trump, said his party would "certainly" consider a Clinton plan to revise a law he says is in a death spiral.

"She would be able to to look at what has failed," he said in an interview. "Obviously, we wouldn’t be closed-minded. The bottom line is, how do we take care of people and make it affordable for them?"

Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican who runs the influential House Rules Committee, said he remains opposed to the health-care law, but he also conceded that it’s unlikely, for both political and financial reasons, that the law could be repealed outright.

Obama’s departure, he said in an interview, will be "an opportunity to see there are other ideas, not just that there’s a continual battleground."............

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1. I'm also hoping that this will happen.

She probably won't have long before the knives come out of every drawer but depending on how the Congressional races turn out I expect she'll have at least a couple of months to patch up the ACA and roll out new programs.