Whatever medical care system eventually precipitates out of the current confusion, it will inevitably be compared to Obamacare. As the health system in this country slowly deteriorates, it will no longer be possible for the GOP to blame Obama, Hillary, the Democrats, or the Liberals. Fairly or not, it will all be on them in the eyes of an increasingly sickly and impoverished public. It won't be too long before people are nostalgically waxing about Obamacare, as they already are in those states where the local governors didn't do everything they possibly could to obstruct it.

The Republican leadership, unlike their populist constituency, can afford health insurance--regardless of what they pay, it represents a smaller proportion of their income. But the typical Trump voter will soon find himself priced out of the insurance market altogether, if he isn't already, and the job-related health benefits Americans have relied on for generations will dwindle away to nothing as business goes global, automates, and relies more and more on temps and part timers. The role of unions in fighting for health care benefits on the job for the average working man is essentially a fond memory, gone with the wind along with the unions, jobs and working men themselves. But people will still remember...and they are gonna be pissed.

Meanwhile, medical costs will continue to rise, after all, Medicine (like firearms) is one of the few sectors of the economy still growing and becoming more profitable, no matter what happens. No policy which threatens that dynamic is likely to be very popular in a Republican Congress. The Right simply has no incentive to bring medical costs down, and they certainly have no intention on raising their taxes to subsidize the low-life 47 percenters, takers and looters they have such undisguised contempt for.

As the population continues to age, and slide further into poverty, the stress on Medicare and Medicaid will only increase, while the pressure on the GOP to go after these giveaway entitlement programs can only increase. I predict the next step will be to tax the young and middle class to pay for medicine for the old and poor. When in Rome...Divide and Conquer! There's nothing like a little class warfare to distract the masses. The next corporate tax cut will have to be financed somewhere, somehow!

As for myself, I've had a long and healthy life, and I'll probably not outlast the Medicare program anyway. And even if I do, I've still got the VA. Trump promised to take care of our wonderful veterans, no matter what, didn't he?