Eugene Robinson: GOP Health Bill ‘Not Going To Go over Well’ with GOP Center

‘This looks and feels like something that was patched together to look and feel like a compromise’

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ROBINSON: "This looks and feels like something that was patched together to look and feel like a compromise, but not really to be one that seems to me is going to satisfy anybody and is certainly not going to get any Democratic votes, and the big deal breaker that’s still in there in terms of the Freedom Caucus and some moderates, is that it’s still going to slash Medicaid. That was a problem with the moderates. They can’t really go along with that and indeed Medicaid, as you know, is like by far the biggest funder of nursing home care in this country, not just for really poor people but for middle class people toward the end of their lives. This is not going to go over well with the sort of center of the Republican Party, and it’s just a non-starter with Democrats or with the Senate."

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