GOP Rushes Forward With Its Health Care Bill They don’t know what it will actually do, but that’s not stopping them.

By Jonathan Cohn , Jeffrey Young Huffingtonpost

House Republicans on Wednesday plowed ahead with their effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, brushing aside new criticism of what their proposed legislation would do ― and ignoring protests over the hurried process they are using to enact it.Two House committees ― Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means ― spent the day debating complementary portions of the American Health Care Act, the long-awaited bill to repeal and “replace” the 2010 health care law.The proceedings themselves moved at a typically sluggish pace, as lawmakers re-litigated the Affordable Care Act, traded barbs about the GOP bill, and squabbled about procedure. But approval in each committee seems virtually certain ― it’s just a matter of when. Afterward, legislation would go to the House Budget Committee and then finally to the House as a whole.House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said he hopes to wrap up the process before the April recess, which would mean the bill would go from introduction to passage in just a few weeks.
The rapid pace of action, with committee markup less than two days after GOP leaders first allowed the public to see the bill, comes amid growing discontent over the legislation. Democrats uniformly oppose Affordable Care Act repeal and the proposed GOP “replacement.” But Republican leaders face bigger problems in the forms of a conservative revolt against their plan, as well as public opposition from the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, AARP and other organizations.more