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Report: Bannon Privately Pans Ryan Bill — ‘Written by the Insurance Industry’
New York Magazine;Breithbart ^ | March 24, 2017 | Gabriel Sherman

Posted on 03/24/2017 6:56:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27

Gabriel Sherman writes that White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon (or, for those concerned with SEO, Steve Bannon) has privately expressed concern that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) betrays the populist voters who put Donald Trump in the White House.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahca; bannon; business; elections; government; healthcare; healthcareinsurers; ryancarebill; suckercare; trumpcare; trumpryan
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Publicly, Bannon has been working to help the bill pass. But privately he’s talked it down in recent days. According to a source close to the White House, Bannon said that he’s unhappy with the Ryan bill because it “doesn’t drive down costs” and was “written by the insurance industry.” While the bill strips away many of Obamacare’s provisions, it does not go as far as Bannon would wish to “deconstruct the administrative state” in the realm of health care. Furthermore, Bannon has been distancing himself from the bill to insulate himself from political fallout of it failing. He’s told people that Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn — a West Wing rival — has run point on it. (Bannon did not respond to a request for comment.)
1 posted on 03/24/2017 6:56:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27
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To: HarleyLady27; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; DoughtyOne; ...

Ping...

President Trump supported Paul Ryan and Ryan stabbed us in the back...I hope this bill does not pass...


2 posted on 03/24/2017 6:57:51 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

According to a source close to the White House,


3 posted on 03/24/2017 6:59:30 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: HarleyLady27

How does anyone know this? Is the WH still being electronically snooped upon?

Why would Bannon lead Trump down the wrong path?


4 posted on 03/24/2017 7:00:01 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Moonman62

It is always either this, saying “unnamed source.....anonymity....blah, blah” or it is naming some effing reporter, pundit - whoever from whatever paper, channel or rock they’ve crawled out from.

Never just ‘names’ of administration officials who are ‘on the record.’


5 posted on 03/24/2017 7:02:09 AM PDT by Gaffer (Moderate Muslims are the tall grass in which Jihadi Terrorists Hide Undisturbed)
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To: HarleyLady27

Like I said yesterday. Ryan and his special interests groups have been writing garbage like this all along over catered meals. If you understand nobody in congress writes any bill you will understand the corrupt products of legislation.


6 posted on 03/24/2017 7:03:13 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Moonman62

That does it for me. Scrap the Insurance Industry driven Ryan bill.

Team Bannon


7 posted on 03/24/2017 7:03:33 AM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: dforest

ANY bill that repeals O-care isn’t “ wrong path.” But as Bannon knows is only just a start.

Even the Constitution was amended over 25 times, 10 times before it was ratified.


8 posted on 03/24/2017 7:03:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Moonman62

Ryan is the definition of unfit for office. He needs to be fired as speaker today.


9 posted on 03/24/2017 7:05:29 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Moonman62

Ryan is the definition of unfit for office. He needs to be fired as speaker today.


10 posted on 03/24/2017 7:05:30 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: HarleyLady27
the Ryan bill because it “doesn’t drive down costs” and was “written by the insurance industry.”

Why does ryan hold tax cuts hostage, and how long should he be allowed to get away with it?
he shouldn't.
11 posted on 03/24/2017 7:06:23 AM PDT by novemberslady
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They could have saved themselves a lot of work and anguish if they had just let Ann Coulter write the bill for them.

Ann Coulter: How to Provide Universal Health Care Using This One Easy Trick

The first sentence of Congress’ Obamacare repeal should read: “There shall be a free market in health insurance.”

Right there, I’ve solved the health insurance crisis for 90 percent of Americans. Unfortunately, no one can imagine what a free market in health care looks like because we haven’t had one for nearly a century.


12 posted on 03/24/2017 7:08:07 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the muslims.)
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To: dforest

I don’t believe anyone led President Trump down any path, President Trump let Ryan do what Ryan did, and knew what would happen, well it happened, that’s why yesterday President Trump said, if it doesn’t pass, it stays at Obamacare and he is moving on...

He wanted to show the American People that Ryan wasn’t for America, he is for his Koch Brothers and other handlers, this bill has NO way of passing and President Trump knows it...

He let Ryan do what Ryan does best, he went along with it to show what Ryan is, this is the collar that Ryan will wear and Ryan will lose his speaker ship...what is exactly should happen...


13 posted on 03/24/2017 7:08:20 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

I heard Trump say that doing nothing was also an option. Doing nothing means it completely crashes and burns all by itself.


14 posted on 03/24/2017 7:10:16 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet)
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To: HarleyLady27

Author seems like a real self-serving snake:

In his September 19, 2016, “Agendas” column for the New York Observer conservative journalist Evan Gahr accused Sherman of a conflict of interest for writing about Fox News while negotiating with a job with chief competitor MSNBC and also not reporting purging allegations against MSNBC president Phil Griffin


15 posted on 03/24/2017 7:10:25 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: HarleyLady27

More and more it seems to me that letting RyanCare go down in flames is the best outcome here. If it passes and costs continue to skyrocket—and they will because the bill does little to drive costs down—it will be all Trump’s fault. The result will be electoral disaster in 2018 and 2020.


16 posted on 03/24/2017 7:10:43 AM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: HarleyLady27

The entire healthcare industry is pretty much a Federally funded boondoggle, a franchise, for the insurance companies. In turn, these companies have some connection to large pensions and pools of bond-type investments. The amounts of money involved are simply gargantuan. They are not going to give up the position they have in this easily if at all. This, the position the HC insurance industry occupies, is certainly among the top 5 elements in the whole US economy. As long as it is so, there’s enormous impetus for this segment of the economy to stay where it is. That pretty much means that there shall be no particularly noticeable cost reductions in healthcare insurance. This, the industry figures, the idea that they can pay a hospital bill @ 10% of what is billed, is a fantastic arbitrage position that yields billions for the ins cos. Any inkling that they will give this up is naive.


17 posted on 03/24/2017 7:11:59 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Has anyone found out who inserted the part in the law about Vets being forced into the VA system?

I would like to know what was responsible for that!


18 posted on 03/24/2017 7:12:47 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: HarleyLady27

I think he’s right... just like they’ve been writing much of ‘health care’ in our country for years. Real reform would required tearing up 99% of the laws on heath care and taking out a clean white sheet of paper and starting over.

The medical care system is a scam... from doctors, to hospitals to insurance companies.


19 posted on 03/24/2017 7:13:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (FOXNews: STOP hiring blond bimbos - you have enough...)
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To: Dogbert41

This RyanCare bill needs to be voted down...it has information that allows the government to interfere with gun rights, it raises the costs in the long run...

I have sat back and watched, I have read what has been available...and Ryan wrote this for the sake of government NOT the people of America...

Let it die, and let Obamacare die, then let President Trump go back in and make the bill that he promised us, the reason we voted for him, he hasn’t let us down yet, I don’t think he is going to start now...


20 posted on 03/24/2017 7:14:06 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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