Posted on 04/03/2017 6:56:49 PM PDT by springwater13
The White House is expected to release the text of a new deal on Tuesday that would give states the power to opt out of certain Obamacare insurance mandates, in a major attempt to revive Obamacare repeal as early as this week.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the Freedom Caucus, told reporters after meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and White House officials that he expects the text of the new compromise on Tuesday.
The compromise would allow states to opt out of forcing insurers to cover 10 essential health benefits in plans, including maternity care and hospitalization. The states could also opt out of forcing insurers to comply with a community rating mandate, which today requires them to offer the same rate to an entire geographic area, and bars them from charging sicker people much more.
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54 40 or fight...
54 40 or fight...
This sounds like the Susan Collins bill in the Senate. Blue states get to keep their Obamacare and Red states get the full repeal.
Not ideal but a lot better than nothing! People that don’t like Obamacare can move to a red state.
what u said.
Thank God i live in the most anti obama state
Fine. As long as it originates from the White House, and not from Paul Ryan.
Let’s take a look...
Absolutely ZERO omama care or we whip you again!! FREE MERKET ONLY!!
My trust in the President has remained unshaken.
The problem is that those of us in red States are going to have to pay for people using Obamacare in blue States.
What about the subsidies? Block grant to medicade and let the blue states who want o care pay for it.
This is a very good step ... and it has Senator Rand Paul’s fingerprints all over it.
Defund it or repeal it, why is that so hard? Yes, I will get the usual diatribes about the law, esoteric intricacies of congressional protocol, and interminable other reasons why we cannot do it, when it truth, no one in congress has the testicular fortitude to do it. Just repeal it, or defund it.
What state is the most anti Obama?
One of the keys to getting rid of Obamacare is to do it fairly early, so the pain of change is overcome before the next election. 2018 is already looking bad for the Democrats in the Senate, and the Republicans have a strong lead in the House.
Do the reforms now, and give some time for the benefits to start showing.
I think that would be Oklahoma.
This is not a tax and spend bill, therefore it cannot go via reconciliation, therefore it needs 60 votes in the Senate, therefore this is a collossal waste of time.
Go to hell, Meadows, you useless p.o.s.
Well you can make a states rights case.. really it the fed stepping back and letting the states do what they want
...My trust in the President has remained unshaken...
This President doesn’t accept defeat. What a change.
Probably Oklahoma, Idaho or Wyoming.
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