Posted on 07/10/2017 2:35:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Vice President Pence on Monday said congressional Republicans should pass a repeal only bill if they cant come to a consensus on legislation to replace ObamaCare.
If they cant pass this carefully crafted repeal and replace bill do those two things simultaneously we ought to just repeal only, Pence said in an interview with Rush Limbaugh.
Pences comments echoed those made by President Trump, who last month suggested that he was open to repealing ObamaCare first and developing a replacement plan later.
However, White House legislative director Marc Short on Monday said, "we still believe that the bill before the Senate is the preferable path.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It’s the only logical solution. Have a phase out period of, say, 2 months.
Anything less,then we own Obamacare re-branded as Trumpcare.
Exactly
The exempt McConnell and Ryan. It is important to not forget that all of these uniparty hacks exempted themselves.
Actually, this entire story is wrong. If you read the transcript of what the VP said he first reviewed the argument that others have made to just repeal and then replace and then explained that it wouldn’t work because Obamacare is broken now and people can not wait for years to get the deductibles down to affordable levels. This story only quotes his discussion of the repeal only argument as if it was his belief and it wasn’t. Completely fake story that demonstrates the ruthlessness and dishonesty of these propagandists in the media.
Works for me
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