Healthcare

Let's not forget! The only reason Republicans are talking about health insurance is because passage of the Affordable Care Act has forced them to concede that the USA needs to make sure that the populace ahs access to healthcare.  President Obama made that happen.  Whatever comes next, Obama changed the debate to how to provide health insurance, not if there should be health insurance available to most everyerone.
The big question si what the Republicans want to do.  The more I hear (particularly through Ryan, along with his alternative to Planned Parenthood) sounds like block grants for "community health clinics".  Clinics which may or may not exist or be located conveniently or be staffed with qualified doctors and professionals.  Not to mention the potential lack of choice for the healthcare consumer.
Yesterday, Trump proclaimed his soon to be revealed plan - coverage  for everyone!  And the only detail that he mentioned was having drug companies negotiate with the government over prices through Medicare and Medicaid.
Great, let Trump and the Republicans fight over their plans.  They break Obamacare, they own it.
Overall, the democratic Party will make big gains in 2018, if we can hold out.  The Republicans will pay for their radical and rude strategies.  Time for the democrats to fight like Republicans.
BTW, contrary to precedent and decency, when Senator Booker and Congressman Lewis testified against sessions, they were made to wait until the end of all the others who testified.  That meant that they were forced to spend the day waiting - when they could have gotten some real work done - if they were scheduled earlier on, which ahs been the normal practice in Congress.  Politics is going to have to be nasty for the foreseeable future.