Exactly...No one seems to know what either side proposed...Be nice if they'd make some of these proposals public...Would likely save a lot of division on FR and the rest of the country... ----------------------------------------------------------
It was like we had to pass it, like ACA, to find out what was in it. The 30% surcharge for those who let their coverage lapse seemed kind of self defeating.
I don't understand the take it or leave mentality when it comes to these types of bills and why the rush to pass them before the people can read and study them.
Above in the thread there was some doubt. Here is a paste of excerpts taken from the house.gov site from what was voted on Jan 2016, that had just passed Senate Dec 2015. Don’t know how to highlight here, scroll to the Washington Examiner excerpt, that makes it clear the bills were NEVER TOTAL REPEAL, they were doing Reconciliation reqd defunding, not extraction of all text.
“The bill undoing the president’s prized overhaul will be the first order of business when the House reconvenes this coming week…Republicans never before have succeeded in sending a full repeal bill to the White House.” (Associated Press)
“The top 2016 goal of both Ryan and McConnell is to return Congress to ‘regular order’ — the step-by-step process of passing bills through the congressional committees and then each chamber. First up, the House is set to vote Wednesday to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, sending the measure to Obama’s desk…” (Los Angeles Times)
“Republicans in Congress are touting a bid to make President Obama veto a bill that guts the Affordable Care Act and stops federal funding from going to Planned Parenthood. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., highlighted the bill in the GOP’s weekly address Saturday. Hartzler argued the bill, which defunds parts of the healthcare law and ends requirements that individuals and businesses buy health insurance ‘would be a significant improvement to our health care system.’” (Washington Examiner)
“The House of Representatives will vote in a matter of days to confirm the changes the Senate made to the reconciliation bill that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies.” (LifeNews.com)