Posted on 05/05/2017 1:02:25 PM PDT by fella
Full text of HR-1628 Health Act 2017 for those who really want to know what's in it.
1. Is the US out of personal health care control?
2. Are the stinking, lying, EXEMPT still EXEMPT?
Neither the individual mandate nor the employer mandate have been repealed. The penalty amounts have been set to zero, yet the mandate and the structure remain.
Why does the mandate remain?
0bemba is smiling and the dims are ROFL at the STUPID repubs. There is STILL socialized medicine in the USA.
Senate says they are not even going to vote on this House bill; they are going to write their own.
Maybe, duelling legislative chambers will come up with a better result in the near future.
Wow you guys read all of that that quick? I’ve only gotten through about 10 pages of that mental contortion.
The Bill is being handled as reconciliation which requires only 51 votes. To remove the two mandates would violate the Byrd rule against extraneous matters, not a budget item.
By setting the penalty at zero it has the same effect but can withstand the expected Dem attempt to remove it.
Many Senate rules, terms and procedures make little sense but must be followed exactly to keep this from a 60 vote requirement.
This is like a horse race, folks like a pretty horse but give me an ugly one that can run.
Each house makes their rules.
There is no requirement that reconciliation be used. There is no requirement for the “Byrd rule”.
They’re not playing to win, but dragging it out for years.
... as they, their families, their staff, and THEIR families
remain EXEMPT.
“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen.”
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
I thought the Constitution reserved the writing of all taxing and spending matters to the house.
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