Posted on 01/17/2017 5:30:29 PM PST by springwater13
Two Republican senators are working on legislation that would let states decide whether they want to keep Obamacare or move to a different system.
Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Susan Collins of Maine both hinted on the Senate floor Tuesday about a bill that would preserve Obamacare, but only for states that choose to keep it. The move comes as the GOP-controlled Congress is pushing to repeal the law, but some Republican senators are concerned about repealing the law without an immediate replacement.
Cassidy said the bill would be essentially the same as a bill he introduced in the last Congress called the Patients Freedom Act. It lets states decide if they want to stay in Obamacare if it is working or leave.
"The state could go with the alternative, which we will lay out, the state could opt for nothing — no Medicaid expansion and no help for lower-income folks — or the state could opt to stay in Obamacare," Cassidy said.
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Nnooooooooooooo...in Oregon....aaaggghhhh...I swear we may move if they do this
No. Collins voted for cloture.
The fundamental problem is the Republicans need 60 votes to pass a replacement plan. They can probably get 10 dem votes if they promise the blue states not to mess with Obamacare.
The other options are: Repeal with reconciliation and not replace. That could lead to a big slaughter in 2018.
McConnell and the R’s could also grow some gonads and nuke the filibuster and pass a replacement plan with 51 votes, but that is not likely since R’s don’t have gonads.
Two socialist republicans
Why should the feds have any say at all? Providing or controlling healthcare or insurance is not an enumerated power for the federal government. It’s reserved to the states and the people by the constitution
Nuclear option!! THEY DID IT=— WE DEMAND IT. I want zero democrats votes!! ZERO!! No mercy!!
Please God, no! I live in California.
I have told these idiots what will work. Close the VA. Move vets to medicare day one!! They get their own doctor!!. Take the VA infrastructure and move the poor there .if you don’t want to buy insurance go there!! LONG WAIT. You paid for it.
BS.
If they want subsidized health care let the state subsidize it. Get FedGov out of health care.
No. My tax dollars should not fund this crap. No.
Prediction:
Exempt King Ryan (of RomneyCARE FOR ALL, forever)
and the Exempt Senate will fight Pres. Trump,
like the Democrats they are.
That is why the EXEMPT elected Ryan again,
to thwart the People.
Phew, glad I didn’t put money on this being McLame and Grahamnesty.
It is not okay to send my tax dollars to teh socialist states. It is not okay to compel a free American to buy a product he doesn’t want just because he lives in a People’s Republic. The answer to this proposal? No!
Pretty sure they do not need 60 votes.
Any replacement bill will be rolled into the omnibus budget where only a majority is needed.
Let the shit states adopt their own shit system. Obamacare at the federal level must be repealed.
Each member of our political class, of both parties, is irredeemably corrupt and depraved.
What a perfect train wreck of an idea.
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