or 2020. If they pass the new bill, they own it and the destruction it will cause. If they gut ACA, then blame Dems, I doubt people will buy that, but I do think that's the only way they get out of a bloodbath. If jobs don't mysteriously appear (they won't) and the ability to purchase affordable insurance is down the tubes, the populace WILL turn on Repugs. So, to keep their jobs, they have to not pass their own bill as it will kill them. I love the dilemma they are facing. Continue to act like the total assholes they are and pass a law that's really a death sentence for some and then lose their jobs OR pass a bill that actually works without Repug fairy dust. I know they just won't do the later, it's too foreign to their drive to decimate the working class. I do hope the working class will stop watching Faux and pay attention to what's happening to them and who's causing all the problems, then get rid of said problems ASAP.

have covered their asses for the midterms.

The AHCA immediately eliminates the primary revenue sources, (Mandate, cut the taxes for the ultra rich and give tax breaks to the insurance companies) BUT they will not pull the plug on the coverages that exist until after the 2018 elections - they basically are going to deficit spend for two years to let people keep their existing coverages before they blow them up for their watered down coverages with a much smaller portion of subsidies through tax cuts that most of these folks don't take.

Nothing focuses Republican lawmakers like the threat of losing office. Suddenly, Heller is preaching a different sermon; one that says "please don't hate me!"