President Trump pulled ALL the wool from the eyes of his Deplorables.
They've had roughly SIX years to craft an alternative.
They just whined about "0bamacare", and effed off the whole time, instead.
They got nothing, and we all know it.
Lowry is right that Trump won without the preachy know-it-all R Party, so now, what does he do with the b@$+@#&$?
Ryan is set upon icing Trump, from giving him any leadership credit, but for the cold eyed perfunctory murmurings just to keep the peace.
This healthcare thing doesn’t yet sound anything like what Trump had in mind.
Maybe Phase 92 will bring it.
what a headline.
Pence, the whips and the legislative teams are working the House. Multiple meetings are happening with the Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study committee and individual members. Ideas are being run by the CBO. Trump is also personally involved. Things are in high gear behind the scenes and lots of horsetrading is going on to get the phase 1 bill through, including possibly concurrently amending it as it hits the floor.
Cruz and Meadows write of the "historic opportunity" Republicans finally have to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, but take issue with the GOP's first real swing — the American Health Care Act.
The Congressmen say that the first principle — lower insurance premiums — is also the most important.
"Nothing matters more," wrote Cruz and Meadows. "The current House bill would not achieve this, because it doesn't repeal all of Obamacare's insurance mandates. Of the few it addresses, the bill delays their repeal. We must abolish Obamacare's mandates immediately."
To further drive down costs, Cruz and Meadows call for the insurance mandates to be repealed, expanded health savings accounts, and "a true 50-state marketplace."
"Republicans have pledged for six years to repeal ObamaCare and return choice to America's health-care system. The time to act is now upon us. If Republicans join together with united purpose and tackle these areas of concern, we will have finally delivered on our promise," Cruz and Meadows conclude. ... "
Hey Ryno, take your piece of garbage bill and put it somewhere!
For a brief period in the mid 90s “house republicans” sounded good to me. WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN.
This is another National Review faker backing Ryan and his decision to move Obamacare 2.0 further to the *left* to get a handful of Democrat votes to offset the actual conservative holdouts in Congress.
The socialists in the republican party must go.
‘there’s no significant [Trump] wing in Congress.’
That’s because Trump works for us, and the Uniparty works for themselves and their Globalist/corporate enablers.
National Review peddles the gaslighting that "conservatism" means mass third-world immigration including from the Islamic world and open-borders trade agreements where our industry is free to relocate to other countries and sell back into the US.
Their anonymous big donors pay for this spin.
It's a semantic game. By defining "conservatism" in a way that stands for raping the USA, they try to influence politicians who want to be known as "conservatives" to favor letting the raping continue.