just sent to Cassidy, Kennedy, and Higgins

[DanaC]

The republicans and the insurance industry lobbyists made it impossible to get the Obamacare plan as initially conceived through - there is every possibility that the unwatered down plan might actually have delivered a good result. But they chiseled away much of what was truly novel because they were ideologically opposed to anything that smacked of socialism or in any way curbed the freemarket elements of healthcare and the end result was a deeply flawed system - republicans were then the loudest voices against the system for being flawed.

The same thing happens with conservatives here. They defund a public service to the point that it is operationally crippled and then say: look at that mess, it is operationally crippled, we should bring in freemarket business leaders to make it work properly.