The important thing on Thursday was for Republicans to pass a bill. After all, Paul Ryan had the beer ordered, Donald Trump was tapping his foot in the Rose Garden, and lots of Republican legislators had already read and practiced their speeches about “leadership.” Which is a lot more than can be said about their familiarity with the bill they were voting on.
Wolf Blitzer: “Did you read the health care bill?”
Republican Rep. Chris Collins: "I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not.”
Collins isn’t alone in casting a blind vote for a bill that few had read and even fewer understood.
In many ways, Republicans appear to be operating in the dark about the AHCA. There have been very few hearings. The full bill text was only unveiled hours before the vote. The Congressional Budget Office didn't have time to finish its study of the legislation. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday it is "literally impossible" to judge the impact of the bill. For his part, Trump, in interviews and conversations with associates, has seemed to care little about what the legislation says.
What it says doesn’t matter. What it does can’t be measured. How then are Republicans convinced that their bill is worthy of a Bud Light? The answer is: They don’t care.
Because somehow passing a bad bill they didn’t believe in is supposed to better than not passing that bill.
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