Posted on 02/15/2017 9:52:28 PM PST by Helicondelta
Capitol Hill conservatives rallied behind the bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) to replace the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, with a patient-centered federal policy at a Wednesday press conference at the Capitol.
Former South Carolina governor Rep. Mark Sanford (R.-S.C.) said he was proud to offer the House companion bill to the 180-page Obamacare replacement bill written by Paul.
For Paul the three top improvements in the bill are that it legalizes the sale of inexpensive insurance, expands the Health Savings Accounts which allow individuals to set aside money in tax-protected accounts for medical expenses, and allows Americans to band together in health insurance associations to create large pools of buyers for the purposes of driving down costs, he said.
The 11 million people buying insurance in the individual markets would be empowered with the opportunity to join one of these associations, he said.
Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.) told reporters that the HFC fully supports the Paul-Sanford bill along with immediate repeal
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Replacement isn’t conservative.
Repeal, and repeal alone is.
I love Rand PaUls enthusiasm... but would prefer to wait until we have another conservative on the SCOTUS.
Replacement is repeal....repeal and replace with market competition. Patients decide with their doctor, not government.
One of the members was on Lou Dobbs noting how interesting it is that some Republicans signed on to the repeal bills when they knew Obama would veto it, and now that they know it would be signed by the President, they are suddenly throwing up roadblocks.
Proving once again that GOPe are unamerican
Trump said he did not want Americans dying in the streets for lack of health care. He promised a replacement, so that is what you will get. In addition, no one has accused Trump of being a conservative, either.
I don't think Trump is going to break a promised that is on tape literally hundreds of times. You need to accept reality and move on because your wish just is not going to prevail on this one.
The alternative is keeping Obamacare, so if you don't mind, I will take Repeal and replace.
You are exactly right. Maybe what they are calling a "replacement" is really an attempt at extraction. No matter what anybody does, my prognosis is repeated bouts of delirium tremens followed by a terminal case of single-payer by design.
FTFY
Enough with “resolutions” and “good intentions”. This could all be in place in 48 hours time.
Just re-pass the repeal bill that was laid on the Former Occupant’s desk in 2015, and stop the squabbling. The replacement bill could then be passed in good conscience within two weeks after that.
Obamacare is collapsing of its own weight anyway, this would simply be a mercy killing.
“Thou shalt not kill” does not apply to bad legislation.
Fine. Embrace "a little less socialistic" if you wish.
I just wish people would quit pretending that there is a "conservative replacement" as the article title indicated, which was my only intended point.
That’s standard MO in DC - it’s easy to rack up as “conservative” or “liberal” an official record as any elected official wants to, without actually doing a damn thing to advance either cause.
Paid for how?
replace?
Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.
It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.
The Results of Legal Plunder
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
“The Law” - Frederic Bastiat
Maybe congress should do nothing and allow obamacare to collapse on its own, which is what it’s rapidly doing anyway.
Can we do it with out the 7 Trillion dollar price tag of the last GOP garbage legislation? Just don’t enforce the durn law, for starters. If obama can do it with illegal immigrants then Trump can do it with healthcare.. if he has the stones to do so.. A big if after the spooks took him down a notch in a matter of days.
What makes them think that any replacement that they enact won't collapse as well? It's going to have the same fatal flaw that Obamacare has: too many sick and old people signing up and not enough healthy ones.
Sounds good...however, I want the Government out of health care...
Doodle - Trump promised he would take care of everyone during his campaign. It is one of his main promises. I’m not debating whether it is right or wrong, conservative or not conservative. It is reality. Any replacement will give health care to the poor, per Trump. This is a Trump promise, not mine. And it will be paid for through bonds sold at debt auctions. That is where we are as a country. If we want the other things Trump brings, then this is the price we have to pay.
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