Posted on 03/31/2017 1:45:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
[Full title] MEADOWS: The Obamacare mandates, there are 12 of them. Mark Meadows says Freedom Caucus will go along with AHCA if it kills community rating and EHB regulations
In the debate over repealing and replacing Obamacare, Republican leadership complains that conservatives have been moving the goal post. And Mark Meadows says they're right.
"Well we have," the Freedom Caucus chairman admits with a sigh during a sit-down interview with the Washington Examiner. "We've moved it much closer. All they have to do is kick a little chip shot through the goal posts...."
This comes after weeks of intense negotiation with leadership and the White House on the best way to overhaul Obamacare. But Meadows says his group of three dozen conservatives aren't asking for one thing before demanding another. Instead, he insists that the Freedom Caucus is conceding.
The group has abandoned their demand for a clean repeal. They're not asking Speaker Ryan to clear the slate and start over. Just eliminating the Obamacare mandates for coverage of Essential Health Benefits and the price controls known as "Community Rating," Meadows said "would bring the vast majority of the Freedom Caucus to a yes."
Before it went down in flames, the American Health Care Act only eliminated two of Obamacare's 12 mandates, specifically the individual and employer mandates. If Ryan can kick two more mandates, then he can get the win.
That can't be that hard Meadows said, considering Republicans campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare completely. "In the end," he said, "the request is pretty simple, just two more of the 12 Obamacare mandates."
I can’t figure out who these posters are—paid by the GOPe?
Paid by the GOPe, probably some CIA and FBI too.
All the whining around the “failure to pass” and it seems the negotiating is still under way.
Who is trying to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, or SS?
And what are you doing on a conservative site?
Yeah, you’re probably right.
Tel the Speaker to bring up the Obama Care Repeal that passed and was sent to President Obama’s desk. Rip this damned law out root and branch! Right Mr. senate Majority Leader? Stick to your guns Freedom Caucus! We are in this for the country.
And that article doesn’t show what you claim at all. The HFC went way to the Obamacare side of things to get a deal and then the moderates squawked, keeping Trump from following through. The question now is whether they get it done, but it is still a horrendous Obamacare 2.1, at best.
You are so dumb it's incredible. So after I proved you were a dumbass by showing a mainstream article you claimed was "disinformation" about HFC's deceptions about their positions, then you have the nerve to say "what are you doing on a conservative website?" Fool, get off this website, you are too uninformed to be here.
“That’s why conservatives don’t win elections, because they want to do dumbass s*** like getting rid of medicare or social security while the cheap plastic crap from China still floods in. “
The High Priests of Conservative Orthodoxy still have a great deal of influence over about 10% of the population. And they fill their flock with nonsense about how one glorious day Adam Smith is going to drop down from the clouds and convince everyone the Free Market will save them.
Alas, that ship has sailed. And it has the other 90% aboard.
We live in a Social Welfare state. And we have lived in one since about 1936. Absent armed revolution we will continue to live in one.
You’re the one without a clue—whining nonsensically about Medicare. I take it you’d like, what, a House full of Paul Ryans and a Senate full of Susan Collinses.
You’re the one without a clue—whining nonsensically about Medicare. I take it you’d like, what, a House full of Paul Ryans and a Senate full of Susan Collinses.
You are retarded. The first few paragraphs actually say "we agree in principle to repeal and REPLACE." That is exactly what I said. Now read the thread you are posting in, dimwit. What does it say? "We are moving back from our position of full repeal." And all this colored in, "we're actually conceding closer to the white house this whole time!"
So what's the truth?
The fact that you are not honest is proved since you are focusing on my one comment on many conservatives wanting to get rid of medicare (which is true), lamenting why conservatives don't win elections (all true), but ignoring 99% else of what I said.
You post in bad faith just like how the HFC negotiates!
for later
I believe you just used one of the ol Orthodox rhetorical tricks: If you like “x” you also probably support “y”.
Funny thing is, you think you scored a point with it.
Have you ever called somebody a “Putinista” because they don’t care about Ukraine?
I am afraid Trump trusted Ryan.
Still no repeal.
Next president and Congress will bring Obamacare back to life.
It can’t be killed by patching and executive orders.
When the mandates and regulations come back under the next president, you’ll be passing and moaning yourself.
Depends on whether they lie about their support for this too.
No, Trump attacked the HFC because they lied and negotiated in bad faith.
HFC walked into the meeting with Trump, held the bible high. After they left, they put the bible bible and started lying! HFC has a problem with the truth and Trump had a problem with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgr4dQXpqKI
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