Boehner Bashes GOP – Will Never Repeal & Replace Obamacare, “It’s Been Around Too Long”

Tuesday, July 25, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jul 25, 2017

Every entitlement typically creates a constituency that benefits from it and is forever dedicated to its defense… and the longer it exists, the more entrenched (and larger) those defenders become. Simply put, entitlements never get repealed.

That’s the message for former House speaker John Boehner, who as The Washington Post reports, told a business gathering last week that Republicans are “not going to repeal and replace Obamacare” because “the American people have gotten accustomed to it.”

Boehner told a private crowd in Las Vegas…

“Here we are, seven months into this year, and yet they’ve not passed this bill. Now, they’re never — they’re not going to repeal and replace Obamacare,”

“It’s been around too long. And the American people have gotten accustomed to it. Governors have gotten accustomed to this Medicaid expansion, and so trying to pull it back is really not going to work.”
Boehner said the Republicans’ best hope in the coming months is to peel away aspects of the law, such as some tax provisions and regulations, and to end health insurance mandates.

“When it’s all said and done, you’re not going to have an employer mandate anymore, you’re not going to have the individual mandate,” Boehner said.

“The Medicaid expansion will be there. The governors will have more control over their Medicaid populations and how to get them care, and a lot of Obamacare taxes will probably go.”

The Rest…HERE

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