Posted on 07/17/2017 5:50:29 PM PDT by Rockitz
GOP Sens. Jerry Moran (Kansas) and Mike Lee (Utah) announced on Monday night they will not support taking up a bill repealing and replacing ObamaCare, effectively blocking the legislation.
"This closed-door process has yielded the [bill], which fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare’s rising costs. For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one," Moran said in a statement.
Lee added on Twitter that "my colleague @JerryMoran and I will not support the MTP to this version of BCRA."
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They would rather lose control of congress than govern. Just give them their cut of the deals going through, let them put up a token opposition now and again as election time approaches and leave them to their country-club.
Right now I think they’ll cobble something together next week.
Won’t be pretty.
If not, Trump should announce the end of the illegal CSR subsidy. That’ll get action!
Donald Trump never had a plan. During the campaign he came up with a seven-point “plan” that had some good specific items but was deliberately vague when it came to the mechanics of implementing legislation that would actually address rising health care costs. I don’t blame him for this. Obamacare is a Federal statute, which means Congress has to take the lead in fixing it.
Rubio won’t be eligible in 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032 or ever.
Today was the first time I heard DJT say words to the effect that we may have to repeal now and then replace later (...with a plan that is better, blah, blah, blah).
I was somewhat encouraged. Repeal is constitutional. Let them go ahead and do that. Afterwards, I don’t think they will ever replace because no one agrees on the degree of unconstitutionality they will endorse.
Trump doesn't need to introduce a plan, and besides you know that is not his style. He is a master negotiator and salesman. Why would he show his hands up front?
He has been President for only 6 months. The Republicans have held the House or all of Congress for 6.5 years now.
It was THEY who said they were going to repeal Obamacare, not Trump.
It was McCONNELL who said "root and branch," not Trump.
These Republicans PROMISED to repeal Obamacare. They didn't promise an amendment to Obamacare so the NY Times won't say mean things about them and so left-wing celebrities won't mock them.
So either get up off your butts and repeal Obamacare, or let it crash and burn and everyone - including Washington and Hollywood - suffers then. Force everyone to take Obamacare. Because we cannot have single-payer and we even cannot go back to what healthcare used to be pre-Obamacare. The entire system needs to be overhauled and returned back to market forces and the states.
“How ‘bout a straight repeal?”
This is exactly what needs to happen.
Good news! Hang that albatross (ObamaCare) around the neck of it’s namesake and let him OWN it.
Now, if we can convince Congress that they need to keep their grubby fingers out of healthcare completely we’d be a whole lot better off.
And I’m glad McConnell got his ass handed to him. Again.
The trouble with third party is that both lose. The old divide and conquer. It’s just not practical.
Well here’s the weird thing to me.
Ocare would have gone belly up years ago if it hadn’t been for the Calvinball of EO’s. And even Donald Trump knows that.
So part of the devil is in the patching.
I think Donald is letting the Congress fumble and stumble in the spotlight in order to get the people to care more. He COULD do something like what Mitt Romney proposed: issue a 50 state waiver EO and it’s kaput. But then that would save Congress too easily.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. I still think he made a strategic error on health care. He has more fans than the dumb-a$$ congress people, and both the house and senate bills were garbage, and still can't get through the maze. There is no public push for either bill because each one has opposition from all sides. There is no champion. An truly endorsed approach by Trump and the admin would have gotten a sea of enthusiastic champions all over the country. The approach I am suggesting might have produced a whole different mess, but the current mess is pretty bad. As I said, I support his approach on almost every issue since inauguration. I just felt a sickening feeling on health care early on.
Only the exchanges go belly up. Everything else stays - Medicaid expansion, taxes, employer mandate over 50 employees, etc. the exchanges were just a small part of it.
The Republicans were given EVERYTHING they asked for by the American people. They chose cowardice, greed, and selfishness instead of the country.
“Pubbies don’t want a repeal bill passed”
I believe we have no clue how much money ALL of them receive from lobbyists. They get to keep the money, and they get to keep their special health plan that is better than what we peons have. Life’s good; don’t rock the boat.
“A people unwilling to use extreme violence to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” me
“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have liberty” Jefferson
Time may be coming when they need to feel the fear.
Mile Lee is not very good either, but is UT colleague is horrid.
I do not trust the Republicans. I believe they will fund Obamacare and rebuild. What has the Republicans done for us so far. It has been President Trump and most of the time him alone trying to rebuild America .
Trump just tweeted that he wants a full repeal now, and everyone can start from scratch with a clean bill.
Agree 100%.
They act like everyone is worried about medicaid reform. Everyone i know is worried about the crappy policies THEY have, and about exploding premiums. -Nobody- speaks up wishing medicaid was handed out in a block grant and other such crap.
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