Bloomberg’s McArdle: There’s No Bipartisan or Partisan Consensus on Health Care

MCARDLE: "There is no bipartisan consensus on what to do. And, in fact, there’s no partisan consensus on what to do. I — you know, listening to Republicans talk about what they’re — they’re going to do with this bill is a little bit like listening to George R.R. Martin talk about what he’s going to do when the next “Game of Thrones” novel is going to be published. You’re like, you guys, just admit you’re not going to — you’re never going to finish it and just let us grieve, right? And I think that, you know, this is — we’ve been — we’ve been following this for months. Now we saw a similar process with Obamacare, right? It was dead. It was alive. It was like the zombie, un-zombie bill of the century. But the difference is that Republicans — Democrats knew what they wanted to do with health care, right? I mean they have lots of — obviously within the caucus — disagreement about exactly what’s due. They wanted the government to provide a universal guarantee of coverage. Everyone in the caucus, to a first (INAUDIBLE), wanted that goal —"