Posted on 05/05/2017 4:17:49 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
The day before the House approved a partial ObamaCare repeal and replace bill, Aetna announced that it was pulling out of ObamaCare in Virginia. A clear sign that ObamaCare's implosion continues.
But on the House floor Democrats were childishly taunting Republicans who voted for the American Health Care Act by chanting "Na Na Na Na, Hey-ey, Goodbye" — meaning, presumably, that the GOP has signed its own death warrant.
Who is being irresponsible here?
With a vote of 217 to 213, the House voted for a partial repeal of ObamaCare, and a replacement plan that keeps many of its insurance market regulations in place, changes the way subsidies are calculated, and over the long term proposes urgently needed reforms Medicaid.
Yet the bill is being called "horrific," a "moral disgrace," which will "rob millions of their care." That's how journalists described it.
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Childish but then they are Rats. Childish is a compliment.
Just another example proving Liberalism IS a mental disease.
The thieves in the House, both sides of the aisle, did NOT vote to repeal or replace ObamaCare. They merely tweeked it a little.
We tried the soap box, we tried the ballot box.
Put thier portfolios on the table for the American people to see, We will all see that the rats and the piubs are heavily invested in obamacare thats why they care
Republicans should do a better job of convincing the public that taking action wasn’t an option. Because obamacare was completely collapsing.
Klassy libs in action. Again.
It's amazingly bad. The 'pubs won the HOR, Senate, Presidency because "repeal Obamacare" was so important to voters. Now, they can't even list what the problems are, and what they're doing to solve each one. Someone calling CSPAN said that they didn't touch getting the cost of pharmaceuticals in control. They seem to have saved the insurance companies and big med/pharm.
I'm glad they passed something. Maybe getting the US Senate is the only way to get them to not be undermining Trump and conservatives. Now they have some skin in the game.
Like Nazis taunting the Nuremburg judges for hanging their leaders.
The republicans have,a lot of skin in the game now. It’s like they took over the Titanic.
They should have repealed Obamacare and let the free markets (sales across state lines, limits on pre-existing, etc.) take over most of it.
Can’t believe they pulled that cr**. That’s what we’re dealing with. What a blot on our country.
“They should have repealed Obamacare and let the free markets (sales across state lines, limits on pre-existing, etc.) take over most of it.”
I agree. But to do that, Trump needed to meet with all the insurance company CEO’s very early and get pledges from then that they will return to the market. Because that didn’t happen, the trend will continue.
Aren’t these the same people that were confident in Plastic Face’s prediction that since America loved Obamacare they would punish Republicans for trying to get rid of it so the Democrats would run on Obamacare? They did and they lost BIG in 2014 and BIG again in 2016. Any questions?
Someone calling CSPAN said that they didn’t touch getting the cost of pharmaceuticals in control.
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This is off topic, but I wish the government would crack down on these horrible drug ads on TV (Fox News runs them constantly). If it was up to these !@(*#@’s every American would be hooked on some kind of drug for SOMETHING. If they can ban cigarette ads, they can ban THIS crap.
The only way to control healthcare costs is to assure that nobody can afford to pay for it.
Surprise...Democrats.......You are going to lose both those “special elections” being held in Georgia and Montana congressional seats to Republicans, one in May and the other in June!!! And...I have news for you...you fools are going get politically devastated in the Mid-Term elections of 2018!!!
It’s called self-inflicted political wounds, committed by Democrats across the board!!! You have no leaders, you have no agenda, other then to destroy the great Republic of the American nation, and, the voters know it!!!
The GOP has tied the albatross of Obamacare firmly around their own necks.
Scrip drugs weren’t advertised to the public until the mid ‘80s. Lawyers couldn’t advertise until the late ‘70s. Overlooked reasons for skyrocketing health care costs.
Nice of them to say goodbye, they won’t be missed. Kind of odd you would do that when you have the lowest numbers since 1920.
You are talking about the Repubs? The ones who make the French look like Navy Seals.
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