Posted on 08/02/2017 1:16:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump’s threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies, maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore up insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act.
Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the influential chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that his panel would begin work in early September on legislation to “stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market” for 2018. He publicly urged Mr. Trump to continue making payments to health insurance companies to reimburse them for reducing the out-of-pocket medical expenses of low-income people.
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This is the Republican Party leadership.
And they told us to fear Trump.
If you want to leave a message, call your Republican senator or Congresscritter. Here is Republican Party phone number in DC:
202-863-8500
Why?!??!
We’ve been doing that for years.
They dont give a ####.
Open primaries, tons of money for primaries, 6 conservatives splitting the primary vote, they’re safe.
But we have to keep voting R!!
Because.
We need the R majority for the SC picks, I guess. Can’t think of another reason.
Is the senator desiring all wages to congresscritters and their staff equal that of the low wage People? Why of course not! The senator smells of bull. The senator is wanting his subsidy of 70%+
Traitors and liars who pose as conservatives when running campaigns. Obviously, need to be rid of them
Identify and punt these scumbags
Oh my. Trump seems to have put himself into another Win-Win situation.
Believe I told you this before the last one and I hold this truth to be self evident.
If the only way to get rid of the socialist turkey known as ObummerCare is to let it crash and burn, then so be it. No more taxpayer bailouts for this monstrosity.
It’s going to be cool watching them try to find the money in the budget.
Debt ceiling will have to be raised, and oh yes, they will have to vote on a budget this fall.
LOL
Find the money? LOL. They had no problem running up $20 trillion in debt, they’ll just keep piling it on. Collapse of our economy is the only “turning point” coming.
In other words they are looking to drive up debt and keep high taxes to keep this dreadful unpopular plan on life support
Hoping their constituents see through the blather because each one of these Senators is a problem that only their constituents can deal with
We can’t support these people anymore. The chips could fall badly, but I’m out on the GOP. Given the opportunity of a lifetime to save the Nation, they’ve abdicated. I’m out.
These are idiots who believe that the government is somehow immune to the same laws of economics that control every citizen in the country.
A citizen cannot charge all of their credit cards to the limit and take out loan after loan to fund a lifestyle of living beyond their means. At some point, the debt crushes them. Unfortunately, it is very easy for them to go bankrupt and get everyone else to pay for their debt. The federal government is much larger, so it takes longer for the debt to crush it--and when the federal government goes bankrupt, who will end up paying the debt? The taxpayers, the same people who have been pushing for the government to spend within its means the whole time.
Why subsidize the health insurance companies at all? I'm paying $5,600 a year for health insurance for my son, and on top of that, I have to pay for his doctor visits because the insurance doesn't actually cover anything (I meant it to be catastrophic--so it will cover only after a 6,000 deductible). Where is all the money I'm paying for non-insurance going?
If they want to “stabilize and strengthen the individual health insurance market” they would stop interfering.
> Identify and punt these scumbags
Easy, look for the “R”.
Lamar Alexander, another advocate for the Venezuela makeover for the US.
The Trump Budget BETRAYED BY CONGRESS
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2017/08/02/the-trump-budget-n2363013?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
I think it boils down to that, yes. And Republicans are less activist in terms of their legislation, less ambitious. Republicans are more genteel, more "good ol' boys' club" than the Democrats are. Their lack of legislative ambition is really the only "conservative" thing about them.
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