Posted on 04/26/2017 6:01:50 PM PDT by Innovative
Republicans took a serious step forward in their effort to replace ObamaCare on Wednesday when the conservative House Freedom Caucus endorsed revised legislation. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Wednesday that the amendment “helps us get to consensus” but did not say how close Republicans are to the majority vote necessary to pass legislation through the House.
The amendment managed to flip a number of prominent conservatives from no to yes, including Reps. Dave Brat (R-Va.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.), all Freedom Caucus members.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a former chairman of the Freedom Caucus and a strong opponent of the original bill, also announced his support.
“While I remain committed to replacing ObamaCare entirely, I can support this new version of the bill moving forward. It is our best chance to pass a bill through the House that will actually reduce the cost of health insurance for everyday Americans,” Jordan said in a statement.
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Of course, Congress is still exempt.
B@sr@rds.
Repeal ACA.
It is most excellent!
Now the battle can move to the Senate.
What good is the final health care legislation, if, even, Congress (and other federal jobs), still, wants to exempt themselves from it? MAKE THE FINAL LEGISLATION SOMETHING THAT, EVEN, CONGRESS WANTS TO BE A PART OF, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE CRAZY TO EXEMPT CONGRESS FROM IT=IT’S THAT GOOD! Anything less than this is, still, unacceptable and not good enough!
It can’t move to the Senate until the House votes on it. Supposedly, members of the Republican “Tuesday Group” (I.e., RINOs) aren’t on board. And I question whether the duplicitous snake-in-the-grass Paul Ryan & his RINO House leadership members can get past their sabotage stage.
It’s not repeal, but it is as good as we’re going to get for now.
So when’s the vote?
“It’s not repeal, but it is as good as we’re going to get for now.”
I agree with you. For now we are not going to do any better.
Nah, the Tuesday Group RINOs will come along (enough of them).
They’re counting on the Senate to turn it back into Obamacare+, and/or scared of Leadership.
It’s great to see them get their turn in the barrel for once- for the first time.
Presidential elections have consequences even for the Tuesday Group.
Republicans are losers.
Right now, I just want Trump to won.
He can get 100% of the pot, 80%, 60%...even 50.1%.
I just want him to win.
I despise the oposition. We need to bury the establishment. We’ve gotten away from that. Forgotten who the enemy is.
Gosh Durn Correct!......
And I gotta say aometime, so why not now, I don’t think Ryan’s all that bad.
A Speaker’s #1 job is to get his Members re-elected.
That’s why they elected him. If he fails at that, he fails- period.
He’s a RINO leader because RINOs are the majority in the caucus.
You got that right. Give up before the fight begins. That is the way you WIN
At some level I just want this to pass so the media cries. Ultimately, government shouldn’t be in charge of healthcare and they certainly have no right telling people what they must buy. Still, the tears are a nice added incentive.
“RINOs are the majority in the caucus.”
Very true, mrsmith, though technically they are not RINOs. The majority are indeed squishes, which makes them true Republicans, not Republicans in name only. And most of them claim to be conservative, but are not. They are true Republicans but are CINOs.
But the important point is that they are not of the opposition Party to the Democrat Party.
Which the Republican Party does, and has to, claim to be.
So I find the RINO appelation the most appropriate.
I don’t think members of The Tuesday Group even claim to be conservative, so CINO couldn’t technically be applied to most of them.
I’ll celebrate when they get Phase 3 passed.
Agreed — anything less than full repeal is a loss.
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