Well, hell. Why not. The law that "is a malignant tumor that feeds and metastasizes on American liberty" (Rep. Steve King [R-IA]) and "is doing tremendous damage across America, and in Utah in particular" (Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]) now isn't really doing that much and really won't be a big deal at all to repeal, say some of these very same Republicans.
"It’s a relatively small number of people who really are involved here," Hatch told reporters earlier this month when he was being pressed for specifics about the GOP plan to repeal and maybe eventually replace Obamacare. […]
”We have an Obamacare emergency in a relatively small part of the insurance market, the individual -- people who buy insurance individually. That's about 6 percent of all of the insurance that is bought in the country, 4 percent ... is through the exchanges,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who is the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, told TPM last week. […]
Some Republicans, like Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), have said the limited number of people in the exchanges should actually make it easier to repeal and replace the law in relatively short order.
"It doesn't seem to me that it would really take that long to come up with a replacement and so that is the debate," said Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who said Alexander's own analysis had informed his. "Are we better off through reconciliation, ending it in three years and then working toward that? You know that is a long time. Momentum can get lost. Or are we better off on the front end right now just replacing it and being done with it?"
See? Hardly anybody will be affected at all when we rip their insurance away from him, just like four percent. Or more than 20 million if you want to put an actual number on it. And Corker and Alexander are clearly idiots, who have spent six years willfully not understanding the law, what it does, how it works, or how much it has changed the healthcare system in the U.S. Or the fact that repealing it will actually make more people uninsured than before the law—30 million will lose coverage because repeal will make the individual insurance market collapse.
They also remain willfully ignorant of the 52 million people whose coverage is endangered because they have what insurers would call "pre-existing conditions." Oh, we'll take care of them, say Republicans. Not having any clue of exactly how they'll make that happen because in the six fucking years that they've talked about repealing this law they've never tried to comprehend how the whole fucking thing works.
They're going to be in for a big surprise, Sens. Alexander and Corker, when the whole thing falls in on top of them and Democrats aren't there to pick up the pieces.