Trump should never have pressured them in this direction, and should have proposed a clean repeal and free market solution.
Sigh.
Ryan wanted it to fail, and he wanted to blame the conservatives and embarrass Trump at the same time..................
waking up...smelling re-election ahead...good!
Now negotiate a deal. We know it’s going to be completely different after the Senate gets done with it anyway, but let’s get the process started.
Purists: hold onto your angst, there will be plent more for you to piss and moan about when the Senate bill is ready.
GMTA...I checked in all day to see if anyone posted this article.
Finally did it myself just a short while ago:
Freedom Caucus’s reasonable demand on Obamacare repeal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3539875/posts
Translation: Uncle. Trump wins. We will deal. We don’t want him doing a deal with the Dem’s. Please give us at least a crumb so we can save face.
Straight out of Art of the Deal.
“This comes after weeks of intense negotiation with leadership and the White House on the best way to overhaul Obamacare. “
This mindset of overhaul is the problem. REPEAL.
Sounds good. Negotiate this crap out in the open and up front.
That would break their promise to their voters.
This is dead on arrival in the House and Senate. Taking away protections for people with pre-exisiting conditions “community rating” is not going to get the House to 216 and is certainly dead on arrival in the Senate where GOP can’t lose more than 2 votes.
Those are the facts.
I also predict that some of the same people who have been praising the Freedom Caucus for making a principled stand will soon be calling them sellouts for not staying strong...
Makes me upset that so many Republicans were willing to go along with Ryan Care in the first place.
Community Rating is an Obama admin regulation which requires health insurance providers to offer health insurance policies within a given territory at THE SAME price to all persons without medical underwriting, regardless of their health status.
With this, you might as well NOT have an insurance business.
This is excellent news.
This is how enduring deals are made.
For the purists here, there was never, ever going to be a pure repeal vote. That was always just lies and political posturing by Republicans.
It would fail by 400 votes in the House of 435.
There will always be the question of how to cover the indigent and those with chronic conditions that make them uninsurable. The answer will presumably be some combination of Medicaid, high-risk pools, and means-tested premium support. The details matter, but I'm not terribly hung up on one formula over another. The key thing is to separate the welfare function from the insurance function so that markets can work for the great majority of the American people who are able to participate in the market system.
I will go with Meadows. but Trump has lost our trust. I want free market and this deal is communism but what Meadows does, I will be ok with. But conservatives are not the little dog with trump.- they are the BIG DOG. And let the big dag eat or watch your arm for massive bleeding.
Gawd.
What ever happened to REPEAL!?
Why does this have to happen in public? Why can’t they just go into a room, beat each other up for a few hours, and come out with a joint proposal?
All the whining around the “failure to pass” and it seems the negotiating is still under way.
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.