I’m not going to talk (directly) about the Affordable Care Act. I’m not going to discuss whether or not it’s “working”, or whether or not it’s helping or hurting people. I only came to say this:
Republicans don’t get it.
The ACA is not a set of 12 disjoint unrelated rules. The ACA was a compromise carefully built to get the approval of numerous parties with their own agendas. Like most compromises, nobody was completely happy, but everybody was happy enough.
You cannot take your favorite watch, complain that the springs inside are bothering you, have the springs removed, and then blame the jeweler because your favorite watch is broken.
And you cannot, five years later, pick and choose the pieces of the ACA that you want to keep and repeal the parts you don’t.
iraleen 