more fu**king fascism....
definitely NOT what the federal government is there to do
Government, get the hell out of my life and stay the hell out of my life.
Seems like the Republicans were against the individual mandate before they were for it.
If people cannot be denied coverage due to a preexisting condition then the government has to force people to buy insurance. As simple as that.
I do not comply nor will I comply
It may not be the case, but it sure seems like the Senate Rs are lost, just clueless about everything wrt the 0bamacare insurance scam repeal.
First, _something_ must get passed or we get no meaningful tax reform [what the dems are hoping for]
Second, they will have to pass 2-3 bills to get rid of it - this is just the first step.
If we get nothing on 0bamacare repeal and nothing on tax reform, the incumbents will suffer in 2018.
WTF?!
Sorry, the unelected Senate parliamentarian should not and does not have the final say on what qualifies under reconciliation.
No, no, no ,no, nooooo.
More Obamacare, please........./s
The Liberal Media will immediately brand this the “death gap” and the first time someone dies while waiting out the six months we’ll NEVER hear the end of it.
THIS....is not acceptable.
A penalty for going uninsured means that merely being alive violates the law.
Any bill that passes that doesn’t have an opt-out for people who are not interested in the latest flavor of pharmacological Fascism is DOA.
Oh gourd damn it.
Hope the House tears it right back out in reconciliation.
From what I read, it IS slightly better than Obamacare still. Probably will still get signed. May even lower premiums and make insurance affordable.
But you jackasses were supposed to REMOVE the mandate!
Mother pheasant plucking GOP establishment.
They’re accepting the democrat’s premise that the government has a role in the insurance market. (A role beyond protecting consumers from fraud or enforcing contracts).
I remembered this joke when I thought about it:
Man: Would you sleep with me for $million
Woman: Yes
Man: How about $10
Woman: What kind of a woman do you think I am
Man: We’ve established that, now we’re negotiating a price
Many Rs want to establish that Obamacare is the proper role of government. And working out the specific costs/payment mechanisms (costs for next year - long term costs will not be contained if history is an example. and they are actively hiding costs and avoiding responsibility)
If these morons are confused, they should go and read Section 1 of the Constitution again. (and again and again until they get it).
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Uniparty likes this and likes obamacare.
Dear Senate,
CAN YOU ASSHOLES KINDLY REMOVE YOURSELVES FROM LIFE!?
KTHXBYE!