Posted on 07/28/2017 6:00:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a Republican-backed effort to single out where Democrats lie on a contentious policy debate, an amendment to create a single-payer health care system failed with no affirmative votes in the Senate Thursday,
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mon.), failed with zero yes votes. Four Democrats and one Independent voted against it, and the remainder of Democrats voted as “present,” to avoid taking a stance on the legislation.
Independent Maine Senator Angus King, who voted against the bill, said he did not want to participate in what he thought was a “set up.”
“The bill had way too many complications, so I didn't think it was a good bill, so I voted no. My job now is to try to keep the Affordable Care Act going, that's my focus,” King told reporters.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told reporters prior to the vote that he supported the idea of single-payer, but argued that the lack of debate on issues like health care is preventing the Senate from doing its job.
“That's why they should have actually brought these things before our committee and have that kind of debate in the committees that count,” Leahy said. “All the Senate has to do is do its job, and if we ever get back to doing our job maybe we'll have that debate.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) warned his Democratic colleagues that Daines's amendment was a “political game” during a heated speech before the vote on the Senate floor leading up to the vote.
“Senator Daines doesn't support this bill,” said Sanders who called the bill a “sham.” “He just wants to get Democrats on the record.”
The Senate will move forward with a vote-a-rama process this afternoon, where senators can introduce an unlimited number of amendments related to the health care debate, a process that is expected to go into the wee hours the night.
Democrats and Republicans alike are still uncertain what the health care legislation they will be voting on tonight, or early tomorrow, will look like.
Did the Democrat Senate do its job when debating Obamacare? I don’t recall a single Republican stating they were invited to participate in any meeting when the Democrats were steamrolling Obamacare.
And in particular, what was John McCain doing when the Democrats were debating Obamacare?
“Independent Maine Senator Angus King, who voted against the bill, said he did not want to participate in what he thought was a “set up.” “The bill had way too many complications, so I didn’t think it was a good bill, so I voted no. My job now is to try to keep the Affordable Care Act going, that’s my focus,” King told reporters.”
I find this guy every bit as detestable as Collins, if not more so.
Even the Rats know the public isn’t quite ready just yet for Single-Payer......it’s still a few years away, but if nothing gets done, it will become reality.
This is what they do in DC. They play absurd parlor games like this to outmaneuver each other on issues they know have no practical meaning. Perfect case in point is the Republicans voting to repeal Obamacare as long as the vote didn’t mean anything.
Single payer is the goal of the globalist. Europe is doing it, Canada, everybody is. Because they want all the countries in the world to do it, and become as one. One world government. Then, the genocides can begin in earnest.
Yep.
I’m actually FOR single payer....
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As long as that single payer is Jeff Bezos, or one of the other leftist globalist nanny state multi-multi billionaires.
Actually, they did. They rammed through Obamacare on Christmas Eve on the American people with no Vaseline. Democrats used every parliamentary and from the @ss Constitutional phantom rule and ordered Democrats like Bart Stupak to sacrifice their pro-life views for the greater good of the Stalinist party.
Contrast this with the absolutely ball-less McConnell who would make a caboose on a rail-line look like Tom Brady.
If Democrats do not want to be on the record as supporting "single payer," is that not evidence that they know it's a bad deal?
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