Senate Republicans are hurling themselves toward passing an incredibly unpopular set of health care reforms that even they don’t understand, haven’t seen and likely won’t see until just before it hits the floor. It’s the biggest open secret about the secret Senate health care bill. The Affordable Care Act is an assertion of the opposite, that society has a collective responsibility for, and derives a mutual benefit from, promoting access to health care and providing the mechanism and the money to do so. The law hasn’t done everything it set out to do, and didn’t even attempt to achieve truly universal health care, but it still extended health coverage to about 20 million previously uninsured people and drove down to a historic low the share of the population without health coverage. There may be Republican senators who aren’t ready to commit in public to supporting the health care bill, citing the opacity of McConnell’s process.

Source: Huffington Post June 19, 2017 16:15 UTC