Posted on 07/19/2017 1:20:25 PM PDT by Hadean
President Trump on Wednesday told Republican senators he doesn’t want Congress to leave Washington for the August recess until lawmakers pass a health care bill.
“Frankly, I don’t think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan, unless we can give our people great health care,” Trump said during a lunch with senators at the White House. “Because we’re close. We’re very close.”
All Republican senators were invited to lunch with the president on Wednesday in the State Dining Room to discuss the stalled efforts to push through health care legislation in Congress.
The Senate Republicans' latest bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare collapsed Monday as more Republican senators announced their opposition to the specifics in the replacement. All Democrats were expected to oppose the bill.
In response, Trump initially called on Congress to just repeal the law now and figure out a replacement later, something Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is proceeding with.
But speaking to senators at the lunch, the president suggested he’d still like to see Congress repeal and replace the law simultaneously.
“We can repeal,” Trump said. “But we should repeal and replace. And we shouldn’t leave town until this is complete. Until this bill is on my desk. And until we all go over to the Oval Office. I’ll sign it and we can celebrate for the American people.”
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Capito and Collins want more people on Medicaid. Paul and Lee want full repeal.
What is the deal you can cut to get them on the same page?
Actually, you can probably repeal Obamacare tomorrow if you raised the income requirements for Medicaid by 30 percent and created an option for people unable to obtain coverage due to a pre-existing condition to join a Medicaid plan.
At the same time, that’s a giant leap forward towards single payer, and I don’t have the first freaking clue how you pay for it.
I mean, it’s the least conservative idea imaginable.
But promising that everyone will be covered and premiums will be lower is a terribly unconservative position too.
I think we are sort of beyond conservatism at this point with healthcare. People want everything covered and they don’t want to pay for it.
“Please don’t throw me in the briar patch” - br’er Rabbit.
Once the Senate goes into Recess, Trump can appoint several hundred people to positions in his administration, and the Democrat party can’t stop this. It would require the cooperation of Senator McConnell, since he could do a recess without it being a constitutional recess.
The only effective strategy of the Democrat party so far has been to insist on 30 hours of debate for each nomination. The Recess appointments can demolish this strategy. Watch for the Schumer to try to force the Senate into not going into Recess.
An inquiring mind - just plain old nosy - wants to know....
Junkets; once part-and-parcel to Congress taking an August recess, Congressional delegation trips (CODEL)haven’t received much publicity especially this year.
A favorite of spouses, children, favored supporters and lovers, is it my imagination that junkets have ceased or have they simply become more camouflaged.
“Capito and Collins want more people on Medicaid. Paul and Lee want full repeal”
Let me guess who of these 4 will be publicly called out by McConnell (and probably DJT) and the media when “repeal and replace” fails to get the votes.
Yesterday’s tweet by DJT was too good to be true “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate.”
I know I won’t want anything the democrats cook up, and it won’t be viable.
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Well I wouldn’t either. Make them look like fools. Instead, the republicans are looking like the fools.
Demos gave us obamacare. Make them come up with an agreeable solution. Otherwise, the repubs will be the bad guys and demos will regain congress.
Of course, we also have to remember the GOP “do nothing asses.” They passed a bill many times to repeal Obamacare, but knew it wouldn’t get past the Obama veto. So they did nothing, and when Trump miraculously won, they had nothing.
So suffer, enjoy the DC August weather, and by the way make sure you have the same basic insurance as everyone else. If you want supplements, you have a large enough salary to pay for the extras.
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