Problem FOUR: Mike Lee knows this as well as anyone, he was one who said in the beginning of Bami Care that this was a 'TAX BILL' not a Health Care Bill...stupid liar!!!
Posted on 06/25/2017 3:26:12 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
As stated by MIchaelTArchangel on another thread:
This Congress needs three health care financing bills.
Bill 1 would repeal ObamaCare in its entirety.
Bill 2 would state that the Congress has no Constitutional authority to be in the health care business.
Bill 3 would state that Congress does have the Constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce and will allow insurance companies to engage in interstate commerce.
We didn't vote for Obamacare light. Call your congress critters and tell them what you're thinking. There's now a push to get this done by July 4.
Start over by just repealing Obamacare. Step one.
Related thread: Four Republican senators say they cannot support healthcare bill
The goal of the communists: Socialized medicine and gun control. The BRCA is Obamacare Light, designed to fail to they can eventually 'give up' and pass single payer.
We say no!
RINO’s are committed to polishing the Obamacare turd which is what the democrats are demanding.
Problem FOUR: Mike Lee knows this as well as anyone, he was one who said in the beginning of Bami Care that this was a 'TAX BILL' not a Health Care Bill...stupid liar!!!
I seem to remember being promised that ObamaCare would be repealed. That bill is already written and has been seen in both houses. Any replacement will take time and only validate the Democrat’s requirement for Gov’t involvement in all things for all people. . Vote the repeal now.
> As stated by MIchaelTArchangel on another thread:
I agree with MichaelTArchangel! Do it!
Step one: Vote to repeal Obamacare effective January 1st.
Step two: Start over. And rewrite a plan that’s good for the citizens and doctors...but not the so good for Big Pharm, Big govt or the ambulance chasing lawyers.
Mike Lee should pen a plan if he doesn’t like that one. I’m sick of absolutist critics who never offer solutions.
The Republican party is trash.
I don’t know what it will take for people to accept the truth. Mississippi wasn’t enough? This bill isn’t enough?
They’re T-R-A-S-H.
Will someone please tell this octogenarian exactly why they cannot just repeal the AFA in its entirety? It seems to me that everything would then return to what it was before Obama. Then they could make the necessary (if any) tweaks.
140%? AHHAHAHAHAH. Let’s start with the first day raise - my insurance went from $275 per month to $420 per month, my wife’s went from $172 per month to $370 per month. Our deductible went from $2,000 per policy to $5,000 per policy (or $10,000 per family) + the lovely donut hole liability of another $2,700. Meaning if we had any significant need for the insurance, such as being in an accident, for more than double than what we were paying, we have an additional $8,700 in liability.
Yet supposedly during the course of Obamacare rates only went up 140%?
(By the way, same policy, today, is $680 per month for myself, and $540 per month for my wife with $12,700 in deductibles.) That’s a 300% raise in costs, which isn’t even a fair comparison due to the massively higher deductible cost. Contemplate spending more per month in health insurance cost than you pay per month for your home - senator, I’m glad you got your eyes on the prize and you’re focused on repealing the monstrosity, but stop underselling how massive a cost increase occurred.
The Republican scheme relies upon actions by a future Congress.
If they wanted they could repeal ACA with a simple majority. The problem is they don’t want to.
I don’t think it’s that easy....bureaucracies have been put in place in past 8 years that prevent just a “repeal.”
Agree.
The Senate and House have had 7 years. 7 YEARs to come up with
a plan. Where is Lee’s plan?
I hope DJT stands to the side and lets this squabble play out. If it fails, let Lee and the other powered wigs be responsible for the GOP barnfire in Nov. 2018.
I just don't get why they can't start with repeal. I've read a few explanations as to why they can't, but I think it's mainly political.
I agree. Lee and Cruz should write, and I mean they write it, not Obama carryover staffers. . write their own plan with all the salient points we've talked about, insurance across state lines, HSAs, etc.
Mike Lee...same Mike Lee who tried DESPERATELY to pull stupid tricks, for the nomination, at the RNC Convention??? That Mike Lee??
Writing on The Blaze...owned by Never Trumper, complete loon, Beck???? That Blaze????
Not just no, but HECK no.
They passed repeal during the Obama tenure knowing he would veto it. Why don't they do it now? I'm with you, I just don't get it. They can repeal it and no matter what anyone screams about, people will get care while the other plan, a more conservative plan, is passed.
I also don't like this rush aspect - 'the pass it by July 4th' pressure. After seven years, they didn't have a conservative bill ready to pass, after repeal, right out of the gate. It's all so corrupt.
The reality is there are so many Obama holdovers plus D.C. voted 97% for Hillary. So all the Obama people plus long term dems are writing these bills.
Your example is exactly why we have to have HSAs and insurance across state lines in any bill that's proposed.
Thank you, Art, for posting this. Mike Lee is 100% correct and I applaud him for being among the handful of Republican senators who oppose the ObummerCare Lite bill that, if enacted, will forever be called TrumpCare. I would not want my name attached to this turkey of a bill.
Stay strong, Lee, Cruz, Paul, and Johnson. Repeal, enable across state lines sales of insurance, and then leave it to the states.
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