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Trump Prepares Executive Orders To Begin Obamacare Repeal On "Day One"
ZeroHedge ^ | January 4, 2017

Posted on 01/04/2017 9:03:22 AM PST by Zakeet

With the Senate already having launched the process of repealing Obamacare when, as reported yesterday, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi released a 2017 budget resolution setting up the process to partially repeal Obamacare early in Donald Trump’s administration, on Wednesday vice president-elect Mike Pence met with Republican congressional leaders to plot the strategy of how to repeal Obama's signature healthcare law.

Speaking to House republicans, Pence said Trump plans to take executive actions to start unwinding ObamaCare on day one: "Our first order of business will be to repeal and replace ObamaCare," Pence told reporters, adding the process would begin "day one."

"The speaker of the house used the word ‘stable,’ and we will do that," Pence said at a news conference after a private meeting Wednesday with House Republicans. There’s a "broad range of idea on how to do this," he said, without giving details of what a replacement might look like.

The VP-elect added that “it will be an orderly transition to something better...using executive authority to ensure it’s an orderly transition. We’re working now on a series of executive orders that will enable that orderly transition to take place even as Congress appropriately debates alternatives to and replacements for ObamaCare.”

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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday that Trump considers Inauguration Day as "Day One" of his presidency: "He is prepared and ready to go. As he's said before, he wants to enact real change on day one. That will mean within hours of being sworn in," Spicer said. "He put his team on notice that he expects nothing less than everyone getting right to work for the American people."

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; executiveorders; healthcare; obamacare; repealandreplace; trump; trumpagenda; trumptransition
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To: Zakeet

I’m actually happy to say...

“this is news?” :)


41 posted on 01/04/2017 10:21:38 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Zakeet

1/20/2017 - The end of an ERRØR!


42 posted on 01/04/2017 10:31:16 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: DoodleDawg
Repeal and don't replace is what I have been advocating all along.

You want single payer? Because that's EXACTLY how you get single payer.

43 posted on 01/04/2017 10:38:20 AM PST by dware (I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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To: dware
You want single payer? Because that's EXACTLY how you get single payer.

We didn't have it before Obamacare. Why would we have it after?

44 posted on 01/04/2017 10:40:17 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Zakeet

How many healthcare insurance companies are there on average per state? Anyone know? Eight or 10 or a little more? Trump will give the American healthcare consumer 400 to 500 or more insurance companies to buy from in a year’s time instead of 8 to 10 ... companies in a typical US state. Much healthy competition among the US health companies.

We all should know what’s going to happen to the price of insurance.


45 posted on 01/04/2017 10:53:30 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: DoodleDawg
Once it's repealed then since the Republicans are promising a replacement then they own that. Be careful of what you wish for.

That's EXACTLY what we wish for.

What in Gods name do you wish for?

46 posted on 01/04/2017 11:05:58 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Zakeet

I am VERY impressed with both TRUMP and PENCE!!!!!
They’re off to a RUNNING START and Prepping before hand! SMART!!!


47 posted on 01/04/2017 11:24:04 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes and publicly direct DOJ to drop the heinous lawsuit against the little sisters of the poor (which Jeff Sessions will do regardless)


48 posted on 01/04/2017 11:28:07 AM PST by mwl8787 ( Anntx)
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To: Zakeet
Why not just drop the mandate? Better policies will emerge. Anyone who decides not to have coverage should (1) probably have to sign something saying they agree that they won't be covered except for first aid unless they pay for services up front and (2) anyone who signs up later for catastrophic illnesses should have to wait two years (or so) after signing up before the coverage happens.

Unless people across the economic spectrum are held accountable for their healthcare decisions, the costs will continue to skyrocket.

49 posted on 01/04/2017 11:44:45 AM PST by grania
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To: DesertRhino; pepsi_junkie; TomGuy; Navy Patriot; TTFX

For DesertRhino, are you sure the law allows Presidential exemptions, or, since Obama has illegally amended so many laws so many times, do you just assume such a provision exists?


50 posted on 01/04/2017 11:49:10 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
... are you sure the law allows Presidential exemptions,...

Any law, authored and passed by DemoRats and/or Gopee, is a TRICK, not a law, designed to immunize the elite and make ordinary Americans criminals.

Reference Ayn Rand for the real purpose of "Law", and read my tagline.

Of course President Trump can do or undo anything the National Negro did, IT'S THE LAW!, and it's precedent.

51 posted on 01/04/2017 12:02:05 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: DoodleDawg

If you understood the system - how it works, how it’s regulated, etc., you would know that simply repealing obunghole care - especially in an overnight fashion, will push us right into single payer. Right now, every single plan out there is setup for obungholecare. Repeal it before giving the carriers time to rework their plans, get them approved, etc., and the carriers will be bankrupt inside 3-6 months. Hello single payer. Before you advocate any given solution to this debacle, be sure you know how the system works.


52 posted on 01/04/2017 12:11:17 PM PST by dware (I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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To: Balding_Eagle
What in Gods name do you wish for?

Repeal. Period. End of story. That's what I wish for.

53 posted on 01/04/2017 12:59:35 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Zakeet

Fortunately, President Trump has a long list of appropriate waivers from Obamacare requirements: the ones that Obama already approved for those with insider connections or large donations to the DNC. President Trump should grant the same waivers to all American citizens and to all American companies, so we can be equal under the law. President Trump should specifically cite the precedent for each waiver, just to rub liberal noses in their own corruption.


54 posted on 01/04/2017 1:27:02 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Zakeet

Trump is the only politician that is keeping his promises he made during the campaign.

I don’t recall any other politicians keeping their promises or even doing much of anything really. And if there is an odd exception that is the exception not the rule when it comes to to ALL corrupt politicians

For example what did ole W Bush promise us? And then he turns around and tries to shove amnesty for illegals down our throats . is that what he thought we wanted? give me a break.

God Bless Trump and the USA!

Is this really happening ? Am I in a wonderful dream? Omg Thank God for Mr. Trump! MAGA!


55 posted on 01/04/2017 2:12:00 PM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: Zakeet

Repeal the illicit statute


56 posted on 01/04/2017 2:21:03 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Zakeet

Executive orders do not repeal statute

There is no reason ACA repeal can not immediately occur. The current enrollment period ends Jan 31, 2017. The next enrollment period is scheduled to begin Nov 1, 2017 and end Jan 31, 2018. Cancel it. There will be no further enrollment periods after Jan 31, 2017, current enrollments expire on their anniversary date. Bam. Done.


57 posted on 01/04/2017 2:30:35 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: dware

RINO


58 posted on 01/04/2017 2:42:37 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76
RINO

Slow down there, turbo. You have NO CLUE what you're talking about.

59 posted on 01/04/2017 3:02:36 PM PST by dware (I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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To: dware

“Can’t” is for losers.


60 posted on 01/04/2017 3:18:11 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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