Lights on Spkr's Office & Whip's Office as Hse GOPers try to get the votes to pass health care bill
Vote for this bill!
If this is passed, Pres. Trump will have LOST his
base FOREVER.
NO TRUMPCARE.
They will get to a place where they can pass this. Then they will change more through the Secretary and they can codify it into law
Never vote for socialized insurance premiums !! NEVER . Repeal socialized health insurance NOW!!
This is Ryan / Fence creation of pure insurance company and. drug companies perks disguised as a phony solution.
it's worse than obamacare .
Illegals are allowed in thanks to traitor Ryan .
Stop It now .
Trump is being set up by the lobbyist fat cats and the evil Chamber .
The RINOs need to realize that conservatives have support in the White House now.
RINOs have always just ignored conservatives and it’s hard for them to accept the new circumstances!
Pass this now and repent at leisure, you’ll have plenty of it when banished from power.
It has to be replaced with something that actually REDUCES INSURANCE PREMIUMS ... not two years from now or at some unspecified date, but NOW (or no later than the 2018 renewal notices that come out later this year).
I seldom comment on any CNN story. Most blogs are a better source.
REPEAL 0BAMACARE!
(Later, we can talk.)
I know what you are trying to convey, but NOTHING ever gets changed for the BETTER in Washington
This is our ONE SHOT. Ain’t gonna be a next one.
#### this bill.
You say “since there is a republican majority”.
Well then why not just make a good bill after repealing it?
And why, with a republican congress, is healthcare for illegals still in the bill?
I am cautiously optimistic...It depends on what the deal with the Freedom Caucus includes.
Is that you, Paul Ryan?
Where it is tonight:
“Scott Wong;Verified account; @scottwongDC · 18m18 minutes ago
On Hannity, @RepMarkMeadows says: “The president and I came to an agreement in principle” on health. Now problem appears to be centrists [RINOs] “
The RINOs are now the ones blocking Trump’s bill!
As far as I can tell, this “RYNOcare” bill simply defunds Obamacare. It’s a fiscal mechanism, not a statutory repeal bill. As a reconciliation bill, it can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate and then signed. That’s why it does nothing else, and why the President is so anxious to get it passed.
Obamacare cannot operate without funding.
I am literally fixing to start praying this bill fails. And I’m also going to pray for Trump to get back on track with the healthcare the vast majority of Americans want. Everyone needs to contact their congressmen and tell them repeal completely, and go with the Rand Paul bill, or nothing.
The Republicans want to repeal and replace Obamacare in the worst way. And with Trumpcare they would be succeeding.
I have written about the complicated process by which this must be done, the committees, conferences, etc. But what is just as important, President Trump is doing right now, the “arm-twisting” and the haggling.
When a bill is first proposed, those individual congressmen and senators who have vested interests immediately cram it full of what they individually want. So it is burdened with pork, garbage, greed and all the other problems.
The committees are the first “screen”, to take out the worst of these chunks. Then the haggling commences with the House and Senate leadership, and in this case, President Trump, that takes out some, likely adds some more, and searches for the magic number of votes to get it to pass.
Importantly, just to pass the initial vote in the House and the Senate, so that it can go to the conference committee between the two. The members selected for the conference are hand picked by the leadership, and they go in prepared for *intense* haggling.
They must produce a bill that will again be passed by both the House and the Senate. So far more deletions than additions, since eliminating things with strong objections by blocs in the House and Senate have more pull than including the bells and whistles that some want.
The “whips” who are the vote counters and arrangers, are very busy people, because they have to offer alternatives to those blocs denied what they want. This is part of the infamous, yet *essential*, “IOU system”.
This means, “vote for this now, and you will be owed a vote in the future for what you want”; and its flip side, “vote against this now, and you will be punished for something you want in the future.”
This is how the whips keep party discipline, which you have to have to get your agenda through.
Ending on a pleasant note, President Trump is renowned for his haggling to produce the best results. If he fails to get a deal, he loses as much as everyone else, so he is motivated to haggle.