The AHCA failed in the House? My explanation which I posted on Twitter as a mini tweetstorm.
AHCA has been pulled from the floor. Didn’t have the votes.
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Put past 48 hours into context: AHCA was a dumpster fire of a bill that made nobody happy. It lacked real reform sorely needed 1/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Repealing & replacing Obamacare has been our mantra for 7 years now, yet we couldn’t come up with a plan to actually do so?! 2/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Passing Obamacare repeal & replace should have been a layup or empty net goal to use hockey terms. Now, GOP looks like the Keystone Cops 3/ pic.twitter.com/kb4cg1iQMf
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Major questions abound about our ability to pass big bills in future. Smart Wall Street folks telling me they worry tax reform undoable 4/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Blame game will now start with each side (White House & House GOP) pointing the finger at the other. Reality is both sides at fault 5/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Trump wasn’t involved in crafting bill & even dismissed it in Feb, yet still married it. He reportedly didn’t even know its contents 6/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
House GOP had 7 years to write a sound & effective plan that all of GOP caucus could get behind. They didn’t & rushed dumpster fire AHCA 7/
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
Best thing to do now is burn AHCA & start fresh with all sides, even Dems (they’re not always wrong), at table working to fix Obamacare 8/8
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017
The AHCA failed and yes, we had seven years to plan for an alternative to Obamacare, or what is commonly referred to as “repeal and replace.” Yet, somehow we Republicans managed to not
Both President Trump and Speaker Ryan deserve blame for the failure of the AHCA.
even come up with a detailed plan, the AHCA, until this year. It was a dumpster fire of a bill and its plethora of negative traits was why the AHCA failed.
Furthermore, blame should go to House GOP leadership and President Trump, as they were both part of the problem when it came to the AHCA. However, despite being great rhetorical punching bags, Democrats should not receive blame. They are actually claiming that their organizing to get citizens to town halls to shout at lawmakers was why this bill failed. The bill failed because it was just an awful bill and not because of anything Democrats did. The AHCA failed not because of Democrats, as they were essentially irrelevant.
A few minutes after the tweetstorm posted above, I added this for a simpler explanation on how we Republicans blew it and a lighter take on why the AHCA failed.
Shorter what we just did with the AHCA pic.twitter.com/pKdvjbWD7m
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 24, 2017