Posted on 03/26/2017 4:33:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
With hours to go before the House is set to (finally) vote on Paul Ryan’s health-care bill, the Trump administration is putting a full-court press on recalcitrant Republicans to rally votes. Last night, the White House sent senior officials including Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to Capitol Hill to deliver an ultimatum to wavering House members: Pass the bill or Trump is moving on to other priorities. The message was intended to put blame for a failed vote on Congress.
The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare would be a stinging defeat for Trump. But it would be an even bigger defeat for Paul Ryan, who has all but staked his Speakership on passing this bill. And in the hall of mirrors that is Washington, the big winner to emerge out of the health-care debacle could be Steve Bannon. That’s because Bannon has been waging war against Ryan for years. For Bannon, Ryan is the embodiment of the “globalist-corporatist” Republican elite. A failed bill would be Bannon’s best chance yet to topple Ryan and advance his nationalist-populist economic agenda.
Publicly, Bannon has been working to help the bill pass. But privately he’s talked it down in recent days. According to a source close to the White House, Bannon said that he’s unhappy with the Ryan bill because it “doesn’t drive down costs” and was “written by the insurance industry.”
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Insurance being a financial service was always a state regulated matter.
That’s where it still belongs.
Selling across state lines should also be left to the states, not mandated.
I don’t think Ryan ever wanted the bill to pass. Both Dems and most of the GOP love Obamacare. Ryan purposely pushed the bill to embarrass DJT, marginalize and demonize the Freedom Caucus, and preserve Obamacare.
We are so f****d.
Har!
Totally agree! Or drug treatments.
THAT is good.
Handsome lad.
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