A review of the Senate's Obamacare repeal legislation suggests that this isn't a repeal at all.  What it amounts to is a new and improved version of Obamacare with a little more realism on funding, a little more freedom for insurers, a lot of tinkering with mandates and subsidies, and full acceptance of the idea that health care is a federal responsibility. The thing itself is nearly 200 pages of turgid govspeak, but even a cursory review of hits found by an internet search for its key provisions should leave you wondering what McConnell and his colleagues were smoking – or, more reasonably, just how far the GOPe is willing to go to dump Trump. The reason this thing is a political disaster in the making is simple: if something like 18 Democrats vote for this thing while five or six Republicans don't, President Trump won't be able to count on Paul Ryan to stop it in the House – but letting it become law would alienate many of those...(Read Full Post)