Posted on 03/16/2017 9:53:15 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Paul Ryan got what he wanted from the House Budget Committee — but also got a warning shot across the bow as well. The American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed on a narrow vote, but not before Republican conservatives offered some resistance to it.
The final vote may have been a managed outcome. Kasie Hunt explains that they expected more debate today in the committee and had counted four Republicans on the panel as against the AHCA or leaning toward a no. Four Republican defections would have resulted in a tie, but a plea from the chair may have made the difference:
The Budget Committee vote was 19 to 17, with three conservative Republicans – Representatives David Brat, Gary Palmer and Mark Sanford – joining the panel’s Democrats in voting against it. The committee brought together provisions approved last week by two other panels into a single bill, helping pave the way for a later vote on the House floor.
Before the vote, Republican Representative Diane Black, who heads the committee, called the legislation “the conservative healthcare vision that we have been talking about for years.” To Republicans who are wavering, she said, “don’t cut off the discussion” by voting no. “Stay in this effort,” she said.
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Bogus headline. Ryancare is not a repaeal of obamacare.
“Representatives David Brat, Gary Palmer and Mark Sanford”
Well, at least 3 out of 22 Republicans were willing to go on record as wanting more limited government.
I am proud to be represented by Dave Brat.
Good for Mark Sanders and Gary Palmer as well.
Ryancare is a rearranging of Obamacare, not a repeal.
The committee:
Diane Black, Tennessee, Chair
Tom Price, Georgia
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Tom Cole, Oklahoma
Tom McClintock, California
Todd Rokita, Indiana
Rob Woodall, Georgia
Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Steve Womack, Arkansas
Dave Brat, Virginia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
Gary Palmer, Alabama
Bruce Westerman, Arkansas
Jim Renacci, Ohio
Bill Johnson, Ohio
Jason Lewis, Minnesota
Jack Bergman, Michigan
John Faso, New York
Lloyd Smucker, Pennsylvania
Matt Gaetz, Florida
Jodey Arrington, Texas
Drew Ferguson, Georgia
Heard this description on the radio the other day, and think it should stick:
Repeal & replace? It's more like 'Renege and rename...'
And if you put that much effort into dressing up the democrat’s pig, does that mean you guys are going steady?
I read every page of the Obamacare Lite bill. I like the idea that it revokes taxes. Restoring the deductibility of medical expenses would be a better alternative than paying the local bank to take care of your money until you need it. However, for me the most insidious part of Obamacare remains that it destroys personal freedoms.
Obamacare began with his stimulus bill creating the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Health Information Technology Research Centers. Passage of HR 3962 and Senate legislation exploded this micro-management of citizen lives by adding 100 new boards, commissions, and programs. For example, a new Medicare Commission, exempt from judicial review, will unilaterally write rules about utilization and pricing of medical devices and drugs often needed by surgeons. The Independent Payment Advisory Board will make decisions about allowable level of Medicare funding for therapies.
The result of all these bureaucracies is rationing healthcare, which is popularly called “Death Panels”. Rationing means government not reducing, but refusing to pay costs. Bureaucrats now have tools to control chronically ill, elderly, and disabled people. I believe both the Republicans and Democrats love the idea that in perpetuity voters must go to them hat in hand for accommodations to these rules.
The above analysis convinces me that this mess is so harmful in this and so many ways, that the only cure is complete repeal coupled with simultaneous passage of bills not more than five pages long and written in the Arial font with 12 pitch. These bills would salvage the few legitimate thoughts existing and address the host of ways in which government intrusion into delivery of health care/insurance prevents citizens, instead of bureaucrats, from controlling decisions.
There is no alternative to total repeal of Obamacare. This administrative law and associated rules attack our Bill of Rights by confiscating speech and religious freedoms, personal life without access to courts and trial, and Ninth Amendment personal freedoms guaranteed, but not enumerated by our Constitution.”
The “Costs” of Medical Care http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2009/11/03/the-costs-of-medical-care-n1088569
ObamaCare ‘death panel’ faces growing opposition from Democrats http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/316045-obamacare-cost-cutting-board-faces-growing-opposition-from-democrats
Why We Must Ration Health Care http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
RAW DATA: GOP List of New ‘Bureaucracies’ in House Health Care Bill http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/02/raw-data-gop-list-new-bureaucracies-house-health-care/
Text HR 3200 for GOP List of ‘Bureaucracies’ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3200rh/pdf/BILLS-111hr3200rh.pdf
Health Care Bill H.R. 3590 Thomas(library of congress) Signed By Obama http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf
Republicans release more complex Obamacare chart http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003844/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/28/republicans-release-new-more-complex-obamacare-cha/
It’s likely DOA on the House floor. In the Senate Cruz, Lee and Paul will kill it off.
I completely agree. It is all that federal infrastructure and agencies and most importantly the power that control of health care decision and records gives them that they are trying to preserve in RINOcare.
Replace has ALWAYS been in Trump’s message. Repeal was plain ole Republican rhetoric. And they always touted they would come up with something...
They won’t be just putting lipstick on the Democrat’s pig, they will be strapping it on so tightly that when it fails it will be their fault.
That, my FRiend, is banner material.
The problem is that the “pre-Obamacare” health care system has been destroyed and there’s no way to put it back together again fast enough to go cold turkey on simply repeal without (temporary) replacement.
I think the best thing is to accept this but keep their feet to the fire on doing what the bill actually claims to do, that is, staging out Obamacare within the next three years and then “replacing” it with structural changes in the health payment and health care delivery system.
Woodall is my rep. A good little leadership pawn.
Cantorize him in 2018. Start looking for a candidate now.
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