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GOP Focus On Futile Obamacare Bailout Instead Of MAGA Is A Great Way To Lose Midterms

Republicans should have spent the past months developing Obamacare alternatives, not engaging in a pointless effort to bail it out.

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No one has ever accused Congress of working too hard, but the futile effort to bail out Obamacare subsidies is one area the legislative branch could learn to work smarter, not harder.

For not the first time, some Republicans spent months working on a plan to bail out Obamacare, only to have it end in predictable failure. It brings to mind the old saying about the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

The Hyde Amendment Is a Binary Choice

Go back to the fall of 2017, after the collapse of Obamacare “repeal-and-replace” legislation. At that time, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander and Democrat Sen. Patty Murray, then the chairman and ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, respectively, crafted legislation to “stabilize” (i.e., bail out) the insurance Exchanges.........

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