Posted on 07/07/2017 8:17:41 AM PDT by yoe
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushes for a limited measure if the GOP's Obamacare repeal fails.
McConnell argued that a smaller bill would have to focus on helping private insurance markets.
The senator's comments indicate that Republicans may have to negotiate with Democrats over fixes for the health-care system.
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McConnell must be replaced as majority leader. If he gets his way the Republicans will lose in 2018.
From a leadership perspective, McConnell makes Neville Chamberlain look like Patton
That's what they've been trying to do.
Who is "they"? I don't hear Trump demanding it. I hear him calling an already crappy bill that preserves Obamacare "too mean". The Senate's work is not repeal & replace, either.
When Obama was in power, repeal & replace bills were all the rage. Now that the Republicans are in power, all true repeal & replace efforts are DOA in Congress.
All I hear is a bunch of moaning & excuses from people in power about how they still cannot get stuff done, despite now running the entire show.
Yes. As soon as he got to Washington. He and my KY congressman Hal Rogers, who is Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, got between 500 and 700 Obamacare jobs in to Somerset, Williamsburg, and Corbin, KY, when the perfidy was passed. McConnell is a b-—h of both the Democrat Party and the corporations. Ann Coulter actually campaigned for this worthless (except for the Swamp) SOB. He is protecting his investment. I’m shocked the President does not know this and more shocked that he appointed the sleeze’s wife, Elaine Chao,to a cabinet position!
“moderate” - ha! Their deeds are communist.
McConnell not qualified to walk a dog.
Spit .... Hiss
I do not think desperation is part of Trump’s constitution...
Must not have been listening. Trump has never called for anything but repeal and replace.
I hear him calling an already crappy bill that preserves Obamacare "too mean".
That was the bill he celebrated with a Rose Garden beer bash if memory serves.
The Senate's work is not repeal & replace, either.
Yeah, it is.
When Obama was in power, repeal & replace bills were all the rage. Now that the Republicans are in power, all true repeal & replace efforts are DOA in Congress.
No, when Obama was in the GOP sent him repeal after repeal with nary a replacement in sight. Now that they were faced with someone who would actually sign what they passed then they jumped on to the "repeal and replace" bandwagon.
All I hear is a bunch of moaning & excuses from people in power about how they still cannot get stuff done, despite now running the entire show.
Ya got me there. That's all I've been hearing as well.
These incompetent, pathetic morons should be ashamed of themselves. Anyone with half a brain could come up with a health insurance plan in under a minute.
The big one you left out and that is tax credits for medical expenses.
Actually Mitch and Paul both voted against ovomitcare and most republicans are quietly doing their jobs. The Republican-led Congress is looking to follow President Donald Trump’s lead in cutting government regulations. This week, the House Appropriations Committee recommended slashing what amounts to a year’s worth of regulations enacted under Barack Obama. Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, described it this way: “The suite of appropriations bills released this week goes further, curtailing more than $19 billion in total regulatory costs and eliminating 10.4 million hours of paperwork, the equivalent of eliminating all regulations from 2006 and freeing 5,200 employees from paperwork compliance.” Historically, Congress has moved very slowly in cutting regulations, but Republicans seem to be eager to ensure that the Trump-initiated deregulation reform isn’t easily reversed by future administrations.
And speaking of Congress’ work, as is often the case, popular perception belies reality. Congress has sent more legislation to Trump’s desk than either George W. Bush or Barack Obama saw at this point in their presidencies. In fact, since Jimmy Carter, only Bill Clinton has seen more bills passed this early in his presidency. Clearly, Congress has been busy, but leave it to The Washington Post to seek to diminish Republicans’ accomplishments under Trump.
Why cant they just make an Obama clinic in every town that is absolutely free to anybody who walks In. Every hour volunteered by any doctor credits them a few hundred bucks tax deduction.
“This whole figgin mess has always been for the health of the profit margins for the insurance companies instead of the health of the American people and the proliferation of graft being laundered through it to the fargin politicians.”
Bump!
It seems to be beyond the politicians comprehension to work on lowering medical costs across the board so people can once again afford to pay WITHOUT friggin Obamacrap or Republicancrap except for the most catastrophic events. But they WANT control over our lives.
Read my comments at No. 44, please. Regulations be damned for this topic, these aholes had 7 years to deal with this crap. It does not matter that all Republicans voted against Obamacare, they apparently did not mean it, because they are not repealing it NOW. We don’t need replacement; the free markets will take care of that!
I believe it is worse than that. The only reason for the control is for the flow of laundered money through lobbyists.
How about just repeal, Ditch?
There is nothing to be gained from attacking your own. If the majority of congress didn’t support Trump nothing would change, but the facts are in and change is happening. Gorsuch is now a Supreme Court justice. You are letting the leftist media set your agenda. Not all of congress is bad contrary to what the media Harpies have been claiming since 2008. State delegate Republicans put Trump in office when the DNC run media thought Hillary had it won.
By not repealing that atrocity, which they voted to do for 7 years, our own are attacking us. Trump could put hard core political pressure on people like McConnell, but he doesn’t, because he thinks he will need McConnell’s help...well, he isn’t getting any help.
The health care issue is an emergency. A plan should have been ready, with that much time, and there is no excuse for what has happened. Rather than coddling politicians, we should be encouraging statesmen. McConnell can’t end Obamacare; he has a political stake in the status quo.
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