Posted on 03/22/2017 6:41:19 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON — A small but potentially pivotal group of House conservatives were largely unmoved Wednesday by appeals from Vice President Mike Pence and House Republican leaders to support a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving it unclear whether President Trump and the Republican Congress could fulfill one of their central campaign promises.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan has expressed confidence that the House will pass the bill, scheduled for a vote on the House floor on Thursday. But on the eve of the crucial vote, party leaders appeared to be short of a majority and were working into the night to whip their members into line.
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This story is behind the times. Looks like things are starting to break with more negotiations according to the other threads.
The Freedom Party will take this down if there is not free market health care if I understand correctly.
Put the politicians under the same plan and you will see the abuses go away the next day.
The Freedom Caucus members have two non-negotiable demands:
1. Eliminate the individual mandate in Obamacare.
2. Eliminate Obamacare's "minimum coverage" requirements and let people shop for a variety different insurance plans that don't cover every stupid procedure.
The proponents of Ryancare keep telling us about not having the votes in the Senate for repeal, they don’t even have the votes in the House for rearrange.
LOL!
NYTimes ‘news’ isn’t even close.
Ryan just finished a meeting with RINOs telling them to support the changes the conservatives wanted- OR ELSE!
They may be working on #2. But I think #1 has always been a molehill made into a mountain. If a person doesn’t buy, they pay a 30% premium penalty from whoever is going to write them a policy while they’re laying out flat on a gurney in the ER. I haven’t seen anything that says they have to keep that gurney policy for a set period? (But a potential problem with that is, just like HR tend to consider job hoppers high-risk, ins companies might charge high-risk rates for policy hoppers so that 30% could be pretty steep)
Right. The whole point is that the mindset has to change ... and they need to entice young/healthy people to buy insurance by making it more affordable, not by making it a ridiculous boondoggle.
As usual the NY Times is lying. They tried to present this as a direct conflict with a “group” of house conservatives that they do not identify in whole and only identify a few that say they would be more interested in a tougher bill than what the house is proposing.
This is going to take time to repair, as it was in the making for probably 70 years, and there will be numerous drafts and deals as that’s the way congress works. So as the lib media is twisting the truth, so goes the wind.
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