Posted on 03/21/2017 4:52:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday afternoon that he expects House Speaker Paul Ryan will be forced to pull the American Health Care Act (AHCA) before a scheduled Thursday vote because Ryan will not get the votes to pass the legislation. The AHCA has been dubbed “Obamacare Lite” by Paul — a leading conservative critic of the plan — and by other conservatives as “RyanCare,” “RINO-Care,” and “Obamacare 2.0,” since the bill does not actually fully repeal Obamacare and keeps many of the main structures that the now-former President Barack Obama installed in the healthcare system. It has come under intense scrutiny from both sides of the Republican Party — moderates and conservatives are lining up against the bill — and Ryan, despite publicly projecting confidence, cannot find the necessary 216 votes to pass the legislation.
Paul, one of the leading senators out of more than a dozen Republicans in the upper chamber criticizing the bill there, told Breitbart News in this exclusive interview he believes there are at least 35 House Republicans ready to vote against the bill in its current form. And he predicted that, unless some major changes come to the legislation between now and the scheduled vote on Thursday, Ryan will need to withdraw the bill and Republicans will have to start from scratch with a new bill and a new strategy on Obamacare.
Paul said in the in-person interview at his U.S. Senate office in the Russell Senate Office Building:
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Don’t get fooled by the smoke and mirrors. The mandate has a different name but there is still a G’vt prescribed penalty for going without insurance, paid to the insurance company when you apply after a 2 month or more period without insurance. There are new entitlements and new drags on the economy.
It seems most opposition (whether valid or not) is dedicated to keeping politicians in office. They do NOT want a solution, they want to claim the issue and keep up a perpetual fight. (ala 1984 always at war with X)
Todays news showed the freedom caucus was answering to their campaign donors NOT THE VOTERS. I expect the senate is the same.
“upper chamber”?
it is not upper, it is equal to the house.
Did you perhaps respond to the wrong post?
and you know what would be great?
If any replacement plan replaced the Congress’s current “special” plan for themselves. Let them live by the same plan as us “little” people.
>>Anytime an Establishment Republican pats you on the back, he/she is merely feeling for a soft place to stick the knife. Always remember that, and you won’t get snookered.
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Yes, this is because that is their role, assigned by their Uniparty masters. It’s long past time to begin to sort them not by Dem-Rep, but by who these people really are: Globals-Nationals.
The post, or another one, referenced 2009 and what the R Congressmen and Senators said. Trump did say repeal and replace, but he never discussed in any detail what the “replace” would be. The R’s, on the other hand, talked about selling insurance across state lines, making policies portable, and a few other things in more recent years as the “replace”. As written, the AHA is a disaster. I hope Trump is working to fix it.
>>>However, phone calls are free as are lectronic communication...imagine if the insurance company in Nevada negotiated a reimbursement for a procedure in Delaware, where you traveled and broke your arm.
So if I wake up sick some morning, I call my in insurer Nevada. The insurer calls my doctor and negotiates a price for the visit. Then the insurer calls me back to tell me to go ahead. I then call my doctor to make an appointment. Meanwhile, the doctor’s office is having similar negotiations with multiple insurers. That doesn’t sound very cost effective for the doctors or insurers and not very convenient for users.
I give up. You are right. The math works, let’s keep obamacare.
I didn’t say that. Folks just keep posting that selling across state lines is the key to cost control. I’m just trying to figure out how that would happen. I just don’t see many people opting fot the pain as you described.
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