Posted on 03/28/2017 11:18:28 AM PDT by drewh
White House restarts talks with Freedom Caucus to repeal Obamacare, NYT reports
What a hoot...
Ryancare is pulled from a vote at the last minute.
All weekend long the press and even FReepers are saying and lamenting about Trump now reaching out to Democrats. Oh the humanities. (nevermind just waiting to see if it’s true)
Then Trump reaches out to the Freedom Caucus, and folks actually make negative comments about that too. For what? We don’t even know what their communications were or will be.
Honestly folks, do some of us even realize how utterly absurd we are?
> love the idea of Newt in the West Wing, I’ve been advocating that since the beginning...
That explains a LOT.
I think this is true and was probably what DJT had in mind all along. Ryan had his chance and he blew it! Now the President and the FC can come up with a bill worthy of our support. Trump’s tweets were all about bringing the FC back to the table.
If true, WINNING!!
Perhaps he was speaking for Trump.
I hope so.
Remember all that talk that’s its done, over, settled (science), blah, blah...as if starting to talk again was not going to happen.
You sound like a Democrat who doesn’t understand free market economies.
You sound like someone who has no argument and has to resort to simple insults.
Since when do force and government monopolies constitute free markets?
Since when do property rights simply expire?
Yeah, that is a GREAT way to reward research and development...
Very well said. Are those your words? I applaud.
Good idea, but that’s not my list. That’s the seven-step plan that the Trump campaign came up with in March 2016.
Oh, great.
Willing to kiss new drugs goodbye, are you?
> Put up a bill for a complete repeal. Let it get voted down. This will put everyone on record.
This would require Ryan’s cooperation, and he is protecting a whole lot of people who don’t want their real position on the record.
And put Lyin Ryan and Kevin Barely in the closet with each other. Leave them and the insurance companies and K street out of the process.
This is “winning”.
Maybe so ... but if something as removed from human existence as mortgage interest can be deducted from our income taxes, then surely medical costs can be deducted as well.
In case they didn't hear that, do you mind repeating that, maybe a little louder?
The back lash against the conservatives Ryan and the president expected never materialized but this stupid bills 81% disapproval did. Conservatives were right on in killing it!!!
Suggestions?
Here’s the issue. We haven’t had free market healthcare since the late 1800s. Are we ready to say ER can reject patients that can’t pay? If we are then we can do the free market and everyone can/will save a lot. Get the FDA out of business and downscale nearly all federal oversight (if not all). Gov’t get completely out of insurance regulation too. They are both in bed with each other.
Until then we will have some form of gov’t healthcare.
But they both distort the market. Health insurance especially. They add not only a “fourth party” for insurance payments, but a third party on incidental and routine healthcare incentives. By encouraging people to fit every last healthcare expense under the tax exemption, they take a lot of price discovery and market incentives from the smallest of health expenditures. In sum, they jack up costs and remove cost-containing free market price mechanisms.
Mortgage deductions are a bad idea, too—but not as destructive.
This is the bill they should vote on...simple....
With a simple two-page document, an Alabama congressman has filed a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare....U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, introduced the bill....
...”The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”....
“This Act may be cited as the ‘Obamacare Repeal Act,’” the bill states....and the bill uses just one sentence to do it.
“Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted,” the bill states.
And that’s it - one sentence.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/03/rep_mo_brooks_files_bill_to_re.html
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