Posted on 05/04/2017 9:48:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
What is it he is getting exactly?
He exchanged a terrible budget for a terrible healthcare bill?
The saga of the Taj Mahal is making more and more sense.
What’s actually in the latest House GOP health care bill?
The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, a development that could bring Republicans one step closer to fulfilling one of President Trump’s campaign promises and achieving a policy goal they’ve sought for years.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, projected confidence Wednesday after GOP leaders announced Thursday’s vote. “It’ll pass,” he said. “It’s a good bill.”
But what’s in it?
The plan is largely similar to the bill crafted by GOP leaders earlier this year that was pulled from the House floor in March due to insufficient support. Lawmakers have made a few crucial changes, however, that have won support from some members who didn’t back the earlier legislation.
Here’s a brief rundown of what’s in the House GOP health care bill, and how it could affect you.
more....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-the-latest-house-gop-health-care-bill/
I don’t know who I trust less, Nancy Pelosi or Paul Ryan. They both turn my stomach.
Sometimes it’s just as well to go ahead and realize that a lost cause is truly lost...otherwise you just become an oddity, like those Japanese who kept on fighting from caves on islands many years after the war ended.
Market-based health care is gone forever. We all suffer, except our lovely establishment of course, but there will never again be a free market there, it was killed by many, many cuts.
We will, after all these throes, have single payer, government run healthcare in pretty short order. It’s inevitable and very near. It may not be “right” but it’s done now and it won’t change until such time as the country itself no longer exists.
Quit letting the left define your language. It is not HEALTHCARE. It is health insurance. There is a huge difference.
The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, a development that could bring Republicans one step closer to fulfilling one of President Trump's campaign promises and achieving a policy goal they've sought for years.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, projected confidence Wednesday after GOP leaders announced Thursday's vote. "It'll pass," he said. "It's a good bill."
But what's in it?
The plan is largely similar to the bill crafted by GOP leaders earlier this year that was pulled from the House floor in March due to insufficient support. Lawmakers have made a few crucial changes, however, that have won support from some members who didn't back the earlier legislation.
Here's a brief rundown of what's in the House GOP health care bill, and how it could affect you.
Click the link for more details on the above bullet points.
Quit letting the left define your language. It is not HEALTHCARE. It is health insurance. There is a huge difference.
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Sorry. Thanks for correcting me and yes, the left have blurred the lines so much that even I didn’t realize I was doing it! But, in my defense, Health insurance and Healthcare have been such huge winners in Obamacare that it is hard sometimes to think of them as independent of each other.
How will this affect the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) for current and retired federal and postal workers?
It’s not just you. All over tv its healthcare healthcare healthcare. The left’s language has now permeated everywhere. It’s just one of the things that bugs me. lol
Question...
Up now is the “exemption for congress from health bill”.
At the moment, 233 Republicans are voting yes, and 188 RATS are voting no.
Does a “yes” vote mean they ARE exempting themselves, or NOT exempting themselves?
Well as tough as this one seems the Senate will be many times tougher. It will be a small step.
I see recent polls show a 50-50 % split on getting rid of the personal mandate.( it's phrased as keeping premiums lower which is it's purpose, not forcing us to buy something we cant use)
Typically its the opposite but this is what repeal politics do.
And ironically the personal mandate is a joke.
Removing it means nothing.
No one has to pay that.
But with 50-50 Republicans will get little credit for getting rid of it.
This seems to be the case with everything the GOP does. It's pathetic. Political parties have destroyed this nation. The irony is that there is really only a "uni-party" or ruling class.
Wow! Last time I remember that happening was when Clinton beat his impeachment rap.
Good PR.
Ping for later reading.
I think that was an Obama promise .... not sure it's law.
I just put on Cspan live and heard it was approved 427-0...
Wait, that was an amendment to exempt the House from the Healthcare Bill.
“The whole reason the GOP didn’t pass an outright repeal is because of the vulnerability which it exposed them to... “
Ohhh..That must be why Trump lost in a landslide. After all, he was making repeated explicit promises to repeal and replace.
I never once heard “tweak and make marginal improvements”.
Repeal and utter cold turkey _deregulation_ would have caused an explosion of cheap, high quality healthcare we cannot imagine today. It would have happened with lightning speed. Did you miss the deregulation of the Airline industry? Before deregulation air travel was expensive and massively inefficient. Monopolies were granted in certain markets. People didn’t use air travel much. But after deregulation, Prices and availability and choices exploded like -never- before. Now everyone in America piles into planes, to everywhere, at prices only dreamed of before.
Or maybe you missed the break up of the Bell company phone industry. Remember paying for long distance? Now long distance isn’t even counted. You can pick up a cheap phone at cricket with unlimited talk and data for 55 bucks a month.
None of this would have happened if we hadn’t had a breakup of Bell/ATT and of the airline industry.
If the GOP would have listened to the national referendum on healthcare last November and simply repealed it, a similar explosion and falling prices would happen in healthcare.
But supply and demand is really scary I guess.
They’re voting now on the big one.
American Health Care Act
They’re are 18 GOP No’s so far.
216!
That was a bill to NOT exempt the Congress from the Healthcare bill.
LOL! It is hard to follow what they do...
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