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The Republican Plan Is Even Worse Than Obamacare

There is no big political constituency for the GOP’s endgame. Democrats could offer a flawed bill as a first step toward doing more. Republicans don’t really have that option.

I suspect the Republican leadership shares my concerns, given how long they kept the thing in the kind of secret reading room usually used for sensitive intelligence briefings. They were not the first to classify our nation’s health care policy “Top Secret,” of course; that had hilarious echoes of the Obama administration’s decision not to tell states what the exchanges would look like, lest Republicans somehow find out, and make fun of them.

.. they’re resorting to all the same tricks: the secrecy, the opacity, the long implementation delays (the better to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office, and oh, yes, also, get them past the next election before voters meet their program).