Considering the GOP is now in control and getting rid of Obamacare was very much promised I'm not shocked that it's still here. Anybody think we'll actually end up with something that doesn't cost more money? I remember Bush expanding the drug benefit with no effort to save money. I see the mandatory part being done away with but that will be expensive.
Newt Gingrich was on several programs last night saying the CBO was way off (i.e., half of the actual price tag of Obamacare, downplayed by the CBO at the time it was rammed down America's throat against the will of 53% of the American public in March 2010). That price tag more than doubled beyond what the CBO projected. So why should we trust them now, when they partisanly attack Ryan's plan, while ignoring the economic benefit and business expansion when employers are no longer forced to employ people at part time hours to avoid paying crippling expenses for full-time employees under Obamacare.
And that the CBO was equally dishonest when Gingrich negotiated a balanced budget agreement in 1995.
That said, I don't like the current plan. It's half-measures. I want Republicans to pass the same plan they voted on 14 months ago (what they won the election by promising!) re-privatizing the healthcare system, and perhaps having the federal government pay the medical expenses for the most catastrophically ill, to prevent those costs from raising the rates for everyone else purchasing health insurance.
The simple reason the Senate has been keeping its health-care plan secret For republicans that complained about how Obamacare was put together, the GOP has topped it.