Thanks Jim.
Doug from upland needs to come up with a ditty called, “Reconciliation” by the Deplorables.
More winning please.
Also from the un-Affordable Care Act, get rid of ‘children’ staying on plans until age 27, reinstating lifetime policy maximums, and pre-ex guidelines. Insurance companies cannot provide limitless coverage for bare bones costs.
Excellent! Trump and the Republicans now have their priorities straight.
I would like to see a tax credit for any penalty paid over that Obamacare mess. Thanks a lot Justice Roberts
Excellent.
I’ve written this before, but they need to do it in the dead of night as they did when they passed that monstrosity.
Mitch McConnell needs to have a majority vote to make the confirmation of cabinet officers and Supreme Court nominees a simple majority vote as well. If he doesn’t President Trump will never get anyone appointed.
I've been saying all along that ObamaCare was probably the single most important issue for working-class Americans in many swing states -- especially in the Rust Belt. If the 2017 rates for the "open enrollment" insurance renewals started coming out in mid-November instead of late October, we may be sitting here talking about president-elect Clinton right now.
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Eff you too, Pelosi.
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..thank Heaven. We currently cannot afford healthcare. I feel like we are playing Russian Roulette...
To get the ball rolling sign EO to direct IRS not to collect the penalty in 2016. That will sink it right away.
You know that lot of low risk/healthy people (and ironically klintoon millennials) are waiting to see what happens before they waste their money on a high deductible 0-care policy. The sign ups should be way down over the next few months.
Parenthetically, in having just poked around the greatagain website I came across this possibly fun tidbit on the 'press information' page: All media must apply for new press credentials.
Perhaps this is SOP for an administration change, or perhaps DJ's folks have it in mind to have some fun with the enemedia ! ?
Jim,
I’ve been listening to this Rep. Chris Collins person, who’s been in Congress for three years and whom I’ve never heard of before, and he strikes me as speaking for no one but himself. I just don’t seem him genuinely tapped in right now. Much of what he says doesn’t sound right to me, and it doesn’t sound like the way a master deal maker like Trump is going to go about achieving his agenda.
Simply defunding obamacare doesn’t fix anything, and actually would make a MUCH bigger mess than genuine repeal and replace. Obamacare can not be unraveled overnight. And real replacement will have to be phased in over at least a couple of years.
At best, I see defunding as a treat to achieve Dem cooperation.
As I wrote on an earlier thread:
1. obamacare is going to soon completely collapse unless SOMETHING is done and both the Pubs and Dems know this.
2. If the Dems obstruct all Pub attempts to fix it, then it fails and they get the blame for both imposing obamacare (without a single Pub vote) to start with AND the blame for its failure by obstructing its fix.
3. Trump owns ALL of the carrots and all of the sticks that will be brought to the negotiating table. The sticks are blaming the Dems for obamacare’s failure and the threat of simply defunding it, which is possible because funding bills are filibuster-proof in the Senate. The carrot is that the Dems could share some of the credit for the fix, because Trump will more focused on achieving results than sharing some of the credit. Sharing credit also demonstrates that Pubs (unlike Dems) CAN act in a bipartisan manner, something that most of the people in our country have been begging for. Results also show Pubs can break the D.C. logjam AND accomplish good things for our people.
4. Trump is a master negotiator and deal maker; he’ll look for win-win results. Trump is smart enough to know a big reason obamacare failed was because it was not bipartisan and will avoid that particular mistake. Oh, and with Trump, bipartisan won’t be a dirty word that means the Pubs bend over and take in in rear: there’s a new Sheriff in town, and that Sheriff is a master at getting a good deal.
Hope the whitey tax on tanning salons is biting the dust as well.
Works for me..... just like FR and JR!
Defund HHS while you’re at it.