New Jersey Voters Did Pay Attention

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Congressman who rescued GOP health care plan loses re-election bid

It’s easy to forget, but the initial Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act died a fairly quick death in the spring of 2017. Many House Republicans balked at their own party’s plan; Donald Trump said he was moving on to tax reform; and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters, “Obamacare is the law of the land… We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
Then Tom MacArthur got to work.
As regular readers may recall, the New Jersey Republican took it upon himself to strike a deal with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who leads the far-right House Freedom Caucus, on a regressive plan that gutted protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Politico soon after described MacArthur as the lawmaker who “singlehandedly saved the Obamacare repeal effort.” When the Republican bill passed the House, it was MacArthur who spoke at the (premature) White House celebration.
The fun didn’t last. The Senate rejected the plan MacArthur helped negotiate; the president denounced the legislation as “mean”; MacArthur found it necessary to step down as chairman of the Tuesday Group for GOP moderates; and the backlash from people in New Jersey was intense.
In effect, the Republican congressman gambled his career on a radical health care plan that would’ve hurt a lot of people.

Fuck off, asshole.  Go die under a tree somewhere.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/...ection-bid

Congressman who rescued GOP health care plan loses re-election bid

It’s easy to forget, but the initial Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act died a fairly quick death in the spring of 2017. Many House Republicans balked at their own party’s plan; Donald Trump said he was moving on to tax reform; and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters, “Obamacare is the law of the land… We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
Then Tom MacArthur got to work.
As regular readers may recall, the New Jersey Republican took it upon himself to strike a deal with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who leads the far-right House Freedom Caucus, on a regressive plan that gutted protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Politico soon after described MacArthur as the lawmaker who “singlehandedly saved the Obamacare repeal effort.” When the Republican bill passed the House, it was MacArthur who spoke at the (premature) White House celebration.
The fun didn’t last. The Senate rejected the plan MacArthur helped negotiate; the president denounced the legislation as “mean”; MacArthur found it necessary to step down as chairman of the Tuesday Group for GOP moderates; and the backlash from people in New Jersey was intense.
In effect, the Republican congressman gambled his career on a radical health care plan that would’ve hurt a lot of people.

Fuck off, asshole.  Go die under a tree somewhere.

. . . after a long, hopeless struggle with a pre-existing condition for which you lack coverage.

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Fuck off, asshole.  Go die under a tree somewhere.

. . . after a long, hopeless struggle with a pre-existing condition for which you lack coverage.

...and surrounded by people who say it's your fault.