Posted on 06/27/2017 11:04:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
Edited on 06/27/2017 11:37:17 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Sources tell the Associated Press that Senate Republican leaders have abruptly delayed the vote on their health care bill until after the July 4th recess.
That's the word Tuesday as the GOP faced five defections from its ranks just hours after the Congressional Budget Office said the bill would force 22 million off insurance rolls.
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Full Title: “Lacking votes, Senate GOP leaders abruptly delay vote on health care bill until after July 4th recess”
Repeal...not replace!
How can be delaying something that had no official vote date?
Trump needs to tell them “No recess for you. Now go to your rooms and think about what you did wrong.”
What they did wrong is come up with this turkey to begin with.
Sounds like a plan!! LOL
let’s just have a straight up or down vote on repeal in both the House and Senate and then primary out any who vote no.
“Trump needs to tell them “No recess for you. Now go to your rooms and think about what you did wrong.””
Both Trump’s Presidency and the GOP will be destroyed if this fake “repeal” bill becomes law.
GOPcare still leaves in place 99.9% of obamacare.
it does nothing to bring down cost of insurance or even more importantly, cost of health care itself, since both parties are totally bought out by drug and insurance companies, and healthcare and medication costs are still going to be through the roof.
it does nothing about competition, either in insurance or healthcare.
it does nothing to rein in obscene drug prices.
it does nothing about insurance across state borders.
it does nothing about insurance companies selling cheap catastrophic insurance, or any other policies they so desire, as long as legal and not fraudulent.
it does nothing about eliminating obamacare mandates that make insurance unaffordable.
RepublicanCare is a sick joke.
they’d be WAY better off to pass no bill at all and let kommiecare collapse in a year, and THEN they’d have a universal mandate to actually repeal and replace.
They'll be back.
Define what you mean by "repeal". (And please don't say "pull it out by the roots" ... that's not going to happen.)
Thanks.
Trump need to save this for the August recess--which is almost a month long.
The July 4th recess is only through the 7th.
You need to face the reality that the vast majority of the voting public—including the GOP voting public—would not support a straight repeal of Obamacare, and indeed such a vote would, on balance, tend to harm any GOP candidates who supported it.
Like it or not, the public doesn't want to do away with "pre-existing condition" provisions, for instance, which is what would happen with a straight repeal.
Don't forget that the reason that Obamacare—despite the fact that it was the totally wrong way to proceed—got any traction in the first place was because of the crappy conditions which prevailed with health care at the time.
Straight repeal of Obamacare would be the surest way for the GOP to lose the House in 2018 that I can think of. Candidates who supported it would be pummeled with the "cold-hearted conservative letting people die in the street" accusation—fair or not.
Maybe Trump can impose a travel ban on Senators.
As conservatives, we really should support the entire Constitution. If so, we would realize no president can do to Congress what you suggest. The Constitution gives each house of Congress sole authority to make their own rules and schedules. The legislative and executive really are separate but equal branches, and within the legislative each house is separate from the other. So all any president can do with respect to Congress is propose, suggest, recommend, and cajole.
Delay means they don’t have all the back door pork, payoffs, drugs, booze, hookers and little kids lined up yet.
This is true. Pure repeal now would leave all places that saw all insurance companies to pull out without insurance at all. Those people who lost policies under Ocare will rightly demand coverage.
This is the issue the Rs must solve.
No mandatory coverage, some pre-existing pool, and low-cist (but low benefit) general policies across state lines.
It's both political parties. Deep-pocket donors insist that profits remain high. Pols can't fix the mess unless pharmaceutical and other medical costs are brought under control. They can't do it with forced insurance that insures things that aren't risk. Insurance is risk management; forced insurance on events certain to occur is transfer of wealth.
Sad thing is, swampthings in both political parties don't care. One has to suspect they'd rather lose elections than do anything that stops the money coming in from deep-pocket donors.
They need time, to put together the various Louisiana Purchases and Cornhusker Kickbacks to get a deal...
Simple full repeal effective Dec 31, 2017.
Nothing less or the GOP is finished.
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