Posted on 01/08/2017 9:50:24 AM PST by windhover
According to A.P story run on Yahoo News, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee will oppose repealing Obamacare until an entirely new bill for health care is passed by the GOP in the Senate.
He is back now, working his betrayal of those who would fulfill their pre-election promises to repeal Obamacare. Corker wises to draw out the process in committee, and kill it with " death by a thousand cuts.
Enough of this kind of Bull ----. Let everyone on this Forum activate every network they have to land on this man with everything we have, especially, but not limited to Tennessee. Let all those of us who supported Trump to deal with this sort crap, support him NOW in every state.
It is past time to land with both feet on any spineless Republican sell out who would betray the consensus to put aside " Business as usual " and take apart this, and other aberrations of Obama that are destroying our Country.
This is our first best chance to show these "Quislings" that we are not about to let them get away with it again!
Please send this message by phone, e-mail, snail mail, and personal contact any way we can to Sen.Bob Corker of Tennessee and your own GOP senator where ever you live.
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
Corker is not only corrupt, crooked and deceitful, but he is also STUPID!
Mr. Corker, tear that (dry)wall down!
Move out of the way of Donald Trumps forward thinking ideas.
A little pipsqueak rino punk.
They’ve got him by the short hairies—like most elected pols in DC.
The Senator should tell us exactly what kind of federal healthcare program the Founders intended when they established the constitution and delegated enumerated powers to the federal and state governments.
All the folks in here from Tennessee need to get together and go after this traitor.
All the folks in here from Tennessee need to get together and go after this traitor.
“According to A.P story run on Yahoo News, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee will oppose repealing Obamacare until an entirely new bill for health care is passed by the GOP in the Senate.”
At least please include a link to the story
K Street and the Chamber of Crony Capitalists love socialized medicine becasue it gets health care off their books. Corker and his ilk represents them. Until Corker types fear Main Street this won’t change. He needs to be Rostenkowski’d, IMO.
The same fool who facilitated the Iran deal
Those who demand that 0’care be “replaced” are just declaring that they are socialists at heart because what they are really asking for is some sort of government involvement in health care. Obviously what it needs to be replaced with is the free market; remove the decades-old constraints that make it unaffordable to see your doctor and let that transaction become once again a private affair.
Obamacare was held to be a tax by the Supreme Court making it Constitutional. So why is Corker opposed to cutting taxes?
The people of Tennessee know where this fool’s office is.
Time for them to get over there.
[All the folks in here from Tennessee need to get together and go after this traitor]
We ILLINOISANS rid ourselves of SEN. MARK KIRK. We added a DEM Senator, but to clean house, traitors within the party have to go first.
CORKER is up for reelection in 2018.
Corker’s not the only Senator opposed to Repeal-only, so is Rand Paul and others.
Obamacare took 6 years to dig its cancerous tentacles into the very roots of our medical system, and it cannot be cut out overnight.
The promise was to repeal AND replace, not just repeal. Repeal-only will instantly collapse our entire medical system. It will take careful planning to cut out the obamacare cancer, and it won’t happen overnight.
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Both the House and Senate are expected to vote next week to pave the way for repealing ObamaCare, despite deep divisions about how to replace the law.
Corker, who supports getting rid of ObamaCare, acknowledged there is a “tremendous desire by Republicans to just repeal immediately.”
He urged Democrats to come to the table to work on a replacement deal, including swapping out the employer and individual mandates with auto-enrollment and giving governors more flexibility on Medicaid.
“At some ways you can look at what’s happening and say this is risky businesses,” he said. “I know much of the repeal piece is about making a political point.”
Corker is the latest Senate Republican who has raised concerns about the party’s strategy to move forward on a repeal without a replacement.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been leading the push in the Senate to move a replacement plan along with a repeal vote. He met with members of the House Freedom Caucus to pitch them on his plan, as well as concerns about the GOP budget resolution.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also told MSNBC that moving a repeal without a replacement would “not be the right path,” while moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has signaled she also has reservations.
Republicans have a 52-seat majority in the Senate. They need 50 votes — expected to have to be all Republicans — to pass both the resolution including the rules for ObamaCare repeal and the separate repeal bill.
Sen. Bob Corker says Republicans need to be wary of a potential “box canyon” if they repeal Obamacare without a replacement in the queue.
The Tennessee Republican said Friday morning that he wants his colleagues to pay more attention to the fiscal issues with the effort to repeal Obamacare.
“The repeal process is going to repeal all revenue but keep in place the subsidies for three years,” Corker said. “You’re basically taking $116 billion and throwing it into a mud puddle … by continuing subsidies without revenue.”
Speaking at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, Corker outlined the potential “box canyon” that Republicans could find themselves in if they repeal all of the taxes imposed by the Affordable Care Act on the front end.
If there’s a need to further extend the existing subsidies for lower- income health care recipients beyond the three-year bridge under discussion or if the replacement plan features refundable tax credits down the road, “that means Republicans would have to vote for a tax increase.”
Corker said to the reporters in attendance that the result could be an extension of current policy driven as much by inertia as by anything else.
But he did add that he recognized the “tremendous desire by Republicans to just repeal immediately,” but he favors the position espoused by President-elect Donald Trump.
Corker pointed to comments by Trump that said repeal and replace should be moved simultaneously and that “he continues to offer caution.” Corker did say that he has heard from some Democrats that they would not be prepared to work on on replacing the 2010 health care law until and unless the Republicans succeed in moving the repeal bill.
The Senate is currently debating a budget resolution that Republicans need to advance in order to get the reconciliation instructions needed to pass a repeal of the law with a simple-majority vote, although several GOP senators have already expressed concern about the “repeal and delay” strategy.
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