Krauthammer: GOP Defeat Is ‘Philosophically’ a Win for ObamaCare

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KRAUTHAMMER: "You could look at this as the big picture or smaller. The big picture, I think, is that it is a victory for philosophically for Obama. It is now seven years since the act was put into place. The country has changed. There is now the generalized expectation that there is an entitlement to universal healthcare. That was always around to some extent. But I think if you listen to the terms of the debate, the main argument is who is going to lose, how many are going to lose, which implies that nobody ought to lose, everybody ought to have healthcare. And I think philosophically what did the Republicans have to offer? The ObamaCare bill said universal healthcare. The bill that Ryan was offering was, how could you, other than we made a promise we want to keep it, what was the essence of it? There wasn’t. And secondly, there was the technical issue. Which is that Ryan crafted a bill to fit the technical requirements of what was called reconciliation in the Senate, which is why he could not include in the bill the things that would have satisfied the conservatives, tort reform, stripping out the requirements for what has to be in every bill. The coverage mandate. That kind of thing big healthcare across state lines. He should have put that, I mean in retrospect, and perhaps in the future, you put all of that in a house bill, you pass it, you send it to the Senate, and then let the Democrats kill it with a filibuster. If that’s where the country is, let it be that way and then the Republicans at least will not have a political black eye."