Posted on 07/25/2017 8:18:31 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Tuesdays Senate vote on health care will be a turning point in the GOP's long and difficult effort to fulfill their campaign promise to undo Obamacare, but the final outcome appears likely to end up as a skinny repeal that disposes of just a few components of the Affordable Care Act.
The first key vote will take place at some point this afternoon to open debate on the health care measure. If that motion to proceed passes, the Senate will then move on to debate and vote on a variety of approaches to the bill, beginning with a vote on the 2015 version of the repeal of Obamacare, according to two Senate sources. That vote is expected to fail.
After that, the Senate will move on to a vote on the current replacement bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, with the addition of an amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that allows the sale of catastrophic plans and an amendment by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, that would add $100 billion in additional spending on Medicaid.
But the BCRA amendment is likely to need 60 votes because neither the Cruz nor the Portman amendment have been scored by the Congressional Budget Office, meaning its likely to fail because it would need Democratic votes.
The plan after those two votes, according to sources, is for senators to proceed to votes on a series of amendments to create what leadership has called a skinny repeal with the goal of eliminating Obamacare's individual mandate penalty, employer mandate penalty and the tax on medical devices.
The Senate would then go to conference with the House of Representatives where they would work out a final bill. Both chambers would then have to vote on the reconciled bill.
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Been saying all along the Republican's will NEVER repeal Obamacare.
LYING COWARDS!
They're fat-shaming!
In a way they are cowards and that way is they are afraid to reveal who they actually are.
The mistake that we are making is assuming that their enemy is the Democrats.
We are the enemy of the GOP. Their allies are the Democrats.
The primary function of the GOP is to swallow the conservative agenda and ensure that it goes nowhere.
Their secondary function is to create the illusion that our votes matter, when they generally do not.
I say “generally”, because this time around our votes did matter, and they are pissed.
THEY HAD TO PASS IT TO SEE WHAT WAS IN IT!!
Trumpcare is shaping up to be no different.
Correct! And now republicans are afraid of pissing off the people who are now getting FREE healthcare who are never going to vote for republicans anyway!
Time for our new president to eliminate every single regulation written to work with obamacare. That in itself would completely kill this beast.
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