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Rand Paul: ‘Easily 35 No Votes’ Against Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0, ‘I Would Predict They Pull Bill"
Breitbart ^ | 03/21/17 | MATTHEW BOYLE

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:

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare; paulryan; randpaul; ryancare; trump
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To: Big Horn

I know. And the biggest complaint about the Ryan bill is that it isn’t going to reduce those premiums at all.


82 posted on 03/21/2017 5:59:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Owen

“What is it you don’t understand about 60 votes.”

I thought that Obamacare, as it exists now, was created through reconciliation without the required 60 votes (because Kennedy died, leaving the Dems 59 votes).

Is there some reason Republicans can not repeal it the same way?


83 posted on 03/21/2017 5:59:50 PM PDT by unlearner (So much winning !!! It's Trumptastic!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Exactly, kill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act flat out, create a blank slate, blame democrats for a disastrous plan that grown-ups need to fix.

After that prepare for political battle by promoting the benefits of a free market, innovative, and competitive atmosphere in every aspect/cost effective/tort reform/out-of-pocket expenses for small procedures, insurance for complex procedures/insurance to pay for unforeseen conditions.

Every American should take responsibility for themselves along with their family. Yes, I don't care if I am deemed heartless, been called worse.
84 posted on 03/21/2017 6:05:32 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Passed with 56 but who is counting. Not sure why some people think repealing this would take 60. Replacing “it” at the same time just brings contention within the Party.


85 posted on 03/21/2017 6:07:55 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Enlightened1

If this bill did pass, it would be the end of the Republican Party. There will simply be no reason for it to exist.


86 posted on 03/21/2017 6:10:48 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: unlearner

The HOUSE passed the previously passed Senate bill, and using the reconciliation process adjusted some of the numbers on taxes and subsidies.

The bill was legally passed as statute.


87 posted on 03/21/2017 6:14:09 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: mewzilla

>>>Ryan’s bill doesn’t allow for sale of insurance across state lines, for one thing.

Help me understand how this works. I live in Alabama. If an insurer in say Nevada has a cheaper plan, but all of the in network doctors amd hospitals are in Nevada, how does this help me?


88 posted on 03/21/2017 6:15:57 PM PDT by oincobx
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To: rollo tomasi

When OCare is repealed and the free market approach is established States can set up what saftey nets their populations want to support.

The Gv’t will still be on the hook for Medicare. That is where Trump’s deal making and privatization plans could really pay off in getting more for less $. Medicaid should be spun off to the States. That would introduce some fiscal discipline into the system & save a great deal of $ of bureaucratic overhead. The closer the payment is to the user the more the incentive to use the system wisely and to get value for $.


89 posted on 03/21/2017 6:16:09 PM PDT by JayGalt
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To: Owen

I don’t know why we don’t bill other countries for giving health care to their citizens.


90 posted on 03/21/2017 6:17:48 PM PDT by Aria (2017: Stay strong POTUS - the left lost control of trillions & will do anything to regain power.)
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To: unlearner

“I thought that Obamacare, as it exists now, was created through reconciliation without the required 60 votes”

That is misinformation. You should start distrusting the source that informed you of that.

The bill passed the Senate 60-39, and the House decided to pass the Senate bill and use their reconciliation process to adjust the taxes and subsidies.

Otherwise it would not be law. And it is.

Look it up on Wiki.


91 posted on 03/21/2017 6:18:02 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Helicondelta

Interesting, thanks for the link.

I am curious about the Paul-type people who are complaining about the regulatory framework staying in place. Doesn’t that leave us open for the next Obama to just make this into whatever he wants it to be with simple majority votes?


92 posted on 03/21/2017 6:20:26 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Arm_Bears
Could it be that House Republicans didn't mean it in any of those previous bills?

I would say there's a 100% chance of that. Obamacare helped them win elections--a lot of elections. Why give that up?

93 posted on 03/21/2017 6:21:32 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: unlearner

It was done by getting other bills through with 60 and replacing relevant budgetary text, approved by the Parliamentarian.

You have to go back and read the exact sequence and method. Mostly the problem was Kennedy died and a GOP guy won that seat. That left them with 59. They then contorted the bills they had passed into budgetary issues so that the Parliamentarian would accept it.

Ryan would love to remove all text about individual mandate. He can, but it would die in the Senate because it won’t have 60. What he CAN do is reduce the fine to 0. And he has.


94 posted on 03/21/2017 6:22:46 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Mariner

Did the rats have 60 seats back then? I seem to remember that not even one republican voted for it in either chamber.


95 posted on 03/21/2017 6:23:23 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink is dangerous ...)
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To: Owen

He has just passed the fine to the insurance companies to collect if you try and get insurance after your insurance lapses for 2 months or more, rather than the IRS and its a bigger fine.


96 posted on 03/21/2017 6:24:44 PM PDT by JayGalt
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To: Enlightened1
Good for Senator Paul - not a fan but he is growing on me. I'm sorry president Trump we didn't work as hard as we did to get you elected for this turd of a bill.

Amend the bill get the crap out and good stuff in then let Chuckie Schumer cry and cause chaos and destroy the Senate Democrats.

God this so frickn dumb - this is not what I voted for

97 posted on 03/21/2017 6:26:43 PM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: Enlightened1; All

let’s roll patriots. let’s hammer them on the phones.

Kill the bill!


98 posted on 03/21/2017 6:32:08 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Enlightened1

When did REPEAL OBAMACARE become “repeal and REPLACE”? I’m SICK of hearing this “repeal and replace” CRAP! Sean Hannity is one of the worst, repeatedly parroting that nonsense on his radio show, and now, even Rush is saying that like it’s what the American people want! We DON’T!

The individual mandate is STILL IN PLACE in this new abomination legislation! STOP IT! Repeal it! DON’T REPLACE IT!


99 posted on 03/21/2017 6:36:16 PM PDT by WXRGina (Repeal and DON'T replace!)
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To: WXRGina

The individual mandate is STILL IN PLACE in this new abomination legislation! STOP IT! Repeal it! DON’T REPLACE IT!


Right you are!!! They’ve (not) cleverly disguised it, but it is there.

As is the Cadillac tax :(


100 posted on 03/21/2017 6:38:43 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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