Trump couldn’t kill Obamacare but will he sabotage it?

The repeal of Obamacare failed because of the holdouts in the Republican Party’s Freedom Caucus – and now we’re finding out why the president gave up trying to win them over.

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According to an article in Politico, among the things the Freedom Caucus wanted to do was let the insurance companies go back to excluding anybody with a pre-existing condition – as a way to lower premiums for everybody else.

But the president wouldn’t do it. He made a promise. And he’s going to keep it.

So now what? Well, publicly he has toyed with the idea of letting Obamacare collapse on its own and blaming the Democrats. But the problem with that line – is that he’s rigged the game.

On inauguration day, he signed an order directing agencies to “minimize” the “burdens” of Obamacare. And the IRS took him at his word.

Originally, the IRS was going to play hardball – and flat-out reject the tax returns of uninsured people who didn’t either pay the tax penalty or claim a hardship exemption.

But thanks to the president’s order, the IRS now says returns will still be accepted, even with that part left blank.

That means a lot of healthy people won’t buy insurance — which begins the death spiral.

So the president has a choice. He can be the guy who brings together the moderates on both sides to fix it, or he can be the guy who sneaks into your garage, cuts your brake line, then assumes you’ll blame the car … as it spirals off the cliff.

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