There is much to write about, and I hope I can be succinct.
1st, the skinny repeal plan will probably be my health insurance nightmare for 7 months if it passes. Why, because if you remove the requirement that everybody get health insurance, you have what NY had before Obamacare. Insurance companies must cover anybody who applies for health insurance. And if people wait until they are sick to sign up for health insurance, insurance companies get screwed. So they raise premiums to cover that risk. I was paying $1500 a month for health insurance in 2012 for 1 person. Now I pay roughly $700 a month on an equivalent basis including deductibles. So if the Senate passes the Skinny Repeal, they will be raising the costs for everybody in the individual market by probably at least 100%. But we cannot be sure because all the GOP Senate Leadership wants is to pass something so they can negotiate with the House, and who knows what will happen in that process. The House bill maintained an incentive for the uninsured to not be uninsured. I am stunned by the lack of normal process in both the House and the Senate as they attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare and effects 18% of the economy.
2nd Ross Douthat is responsible for the Wow. He lays out a comprehensive logic for the impeachment of President Trump, all revolving around his "management" of Attorney General Sessions. "If it were any other President suddenly behaving this erratically and irrationally, we'd be talking about mental incapacity, speculating about strokes, considering 25th Amendment remedies" You have to read the column.
Link to Douthat column
I'll stop there.
This weeks's most outrageous Trump act: Politicizing the Boy Scouts as purveyor of Trump Values.
P.S. 7/28 Charles Krauthammer also wants to impeach Trump (almost, he'd go there if the House started a process)
Link to Krauthammer column
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