Posted on 07/17/2017 7:59:21 PM PDT by springwater13
This is breaking on McConnel's twitter feed. Statement to abandon repeal/replace for a straight repeal with a 2 year delay to replace.
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Stupid. Just stupid
Fox just reported 60 votes are needed for full repeal unless he changes the rules for a 51 vote majority.
I dream of a day when Republicans control the Senate and can do things like that.
The good news is that there is more support for a straight repeal than for any specific replacement. Then the replacement can be scored against doing nothing, rather than against the unsustainable plan we are (hopefully) getting rid of in a separate bill. Best of all, if the Democrats oppose all replacements, we end up with nothing, which is my top choice. Then the democrats share the “blame” for a straight repeal.
I hope not, I want the repeal to be immediate, as Obamacare made all our previous policies illegal. The carriers better get their personnel busy, finding all those archived policy provisions, so they can offer them up again.
Those will be different from state to state...That's why the only "replace" thing I care about is "interstate competition".
The Republican party since 2010 has been calling for a full repeal. As matter of fact they even voted for it. So why are they delaying now. The fact they have tried to WEASEL out of it shows their true colors.
I didn’t vote for Ryancare 2.0 as the replacement of Obamacare. I’m happy to see it shot down.
TOTAL REPEAL NOW, and not a 2 year B.S. delay. End it in October when the new fiscal year begins.
All it requires is 51 votes.
Fox somehow thinks because 60 votes originally voted for it, then that must mean 60 votes to repeal it. Total B.S.
The GOP under Ryan’s and McConnell’s tutalege do not have the balls to repeal Obama care. They both are in the Insurance Lobby tank.
Get rid of them both. They tried and failed. Put a couple of real politicians in charge of the GOP Congressional agenda.
Open up the state Insurance monopolies and get the free market to prevail.
The bad news is that there was plenty of support for repeal when they knew such a vote was merely symbolic because Obama would never sign it. That's not the case now, so I can think of at least six senators who will have cold feet now.
Best of all, if the Democrats oppose all replacements, we end up with nothing, which is my top choice. Then the democrats share the “blame” for a straight repeal.
While I have been repeal and not replace all along make no mistake about it, the GOP owns health-care now and they will take the heat for no replacement. They need to make sure that the short term pain of no replacement is quickly offset by long term improvements in quality and access.
1. Repeal Obamacare completely
2. Don’t replace it at all
3. Largest tax rate cut in history,
4. Reaganesque landslide
2. Don’t replace it at all
3. Largest tax rate cut in history,
4. Reaganesque landslide
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This is exactly what should be done. And the Republicans should put up a bill to this effect just before the mid-terms. Dare the Democrats to filibuster. The bill would pass and the Dems would get slaughtered in the mid-terms.
How many cats does it take to pull a plow?
Amen and agree 100%!
2 hours in a stitch room cost my insurance 17,000 last year. Why?
"Free healthcare"
They are compelled to treat all comers in the ER...for "free". Then, in order to pay themselves back by charging your insurance $17,000.
It's called "cost shifting" and the practice needs to be banned.
Just like PJ O'Rourke said...."If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it's free."
Then who is?
And just repealing everything will make that happen faster.
The old system is gone. We can’t “Just go back”, the insurance structure was destroyed.
Most large companies WANT single payer. It will lower their overhead.
Agreed!
That depends on whether or not a staffer is on hand to do it. Sometimes they have to call them and wait. Useless idiots.
At least it looks like we have a shot at a real repeal bill. There's that.
WE don't have a majority in either house. The Republicans do. And they are mostly uniparty swamp dwelling statist elites who look down their noses on us when they even bother to give us a thought...except for a month or two every two or six years.
Yeah...I'm a pessimist too.
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