It only takes one sentence:
“The Affordable Health Care Act is repealed in its entirety.”
Mo Brooks was sponsoring a bill that looked very similar to this, and the House GOPe weasel leadership did nothing with it.
All right. Settle down.
1) This The Hill.com. Ultra left wing news source. It took the House several months and at least one failed vote to get something, anything to the Senate. No reason to think the Senate can’t require time, too.
2) Repeal and do not replace will not win even 20 votes in the Senate. blah blah it already did that when Obama was president blah blah. No it didn’t. If you go back and read the legislation passed, media interpreted as “kills Obamacare”, it essentially said what Ryan has in the bill that got out of the House. And it passed because it was not going to be signed.
3) There is only one criteria for the new bill. It must cut premiums. It doesn’t need to be ideologically conservative. It doesn’t need to be red meat for Texas GOPers. It has to cut premiums. PERIOD. No matter what else it does, right wing or left wing, if it doesn’t cut premiums it will lose votes in the 2018 election.
4) Before you offer up . . . Bullshit, conservatism works EVERY TIME it’s tried. You RINO assholes are destroying blah blah blah . . . before you offer that up — Go look up Sharron Angle and how conservatism was tried and smashed by no less evil a person than Harry Reid.
5) Premiums must be lower. Pretty much nothing else matters.