Posted on 03/23/2017 12:24:23 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
As I write this, the House is pushing for a floor vote on the American Health Care Act. It “hangs in the balance” as some mainstream media news outlets are saying, but that doesn’t really paint the picture properly. In reality, it hangs over the GOP’s head in two major ways.
If it passes, things get really interesting in the Senate. There, the GOP cannot afford more than a couple of internal detractors and in the current form, there are more than enough. We haven’t seen the final version, but unless major changes were made, it’s very possible it could pass the House and get shot down in the Senate.
If it doesn’t pass the House, the spotlight is on the Freedom Caucus. President Trump has allegedly threatened Congressman Mark Meadows and others with losing their seats in 2018 if they don’t vote for it. Just as in the Senate, it would take major revisions for most Freedom Caucus members to reverse their publicly stated stance that they will vote against it.
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There hasn’t been a “free market” in health care since WW2, when business started to offer health care
Our President needs to include them in negotiations. There needs to be tort reform to bring premiums back to where they were for years. If we don’t repeal Obamacare the insurance industry goes bankrupt. If the really sick people are taken out of the pool, it would be easier to pay that directly and eliminate tax credits or tax refunds.
What this means is that once such a nightmare seeps into government, even with all democrat votes, it becomes part of government forever, no matter the protestations of how many so-called “conservatives”.
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