okay… all indications are that Mitch and the Death Panels are going to rewrite the GOP Health Care build…

I am busy wracking my brain at trying to determine what they’ll keep and what may change because my best guess is that they’ll want to avoid the reconciliation tango in order to have something in his back pocket (because that’s just how Mitchy apparently rolls).

I fully expect them to eviscerate the ACA, but to do so in a revenue neutral kind of way because Mitch is just as insistent about removing Obama’s legacy as Trump is. The key question (in my mind) is how are they going to pull this off without screwing the numbers…

My best guess is that they’ll keep the numbers, but change the distribution of who gets re-imbursed so that it’s more business friendly (and natch, less consumer friendly) and still find a way to be just anti-woman enough to keep Collins and/or Murkowski from bolting. It’s in Mitch’s best interest to do something so his other tax cut shoe to drop, just how heinous this will be remains to be seen.

I’d expect them to also try and keep the Freedom yahoos happy by keeping the ideas that any illness is a pre-existing condition and to roll back things like the subsidies and the kicking kids off at 21 (if not 18) of their parent’s policies as an added bonus. Medicare expansion is dead and they may cripple Medicaid while they’re at it as a way to “balance” the numbers.