Posted on 03/28/2017 7:22:07 PM PDT by Innovative
Under extreme pressure from conservative activists, House Republican leaders and the White House have restarted negotiations on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
But efforts to revive the legislation in the House could take weeks, lawmakers conceded, as Congress moves forward with a full plate of other time-consuming issues. And the renewed push did not meet with much enthusiasm from Senate Republicans, who said they had other priorities at the moment.
Nonetheless, Speaker Paul D. Ryan vowed to renew efforts to repeal the law, despite last’s week crushing setback when House Republicans tossed aside a repeal bill because they lacked the votes to pass it.
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To Congress republicans:
By the tone of his campaigning, Trump put a lot of trust in you people...
If you don’t help him, I will never vote for someone with “incumbent” by their name...EVER!!!!!!
Sure they can. Look at the last six years of the Obama administration.
There are less than three million federal employees.
Dethrone royalty by any and all means.
Forty -something posts and no one says “this is the NYT, disregard”?
Who are you people and what have you done with the Freepers?
That response is absurd. Many, if not most, of our Republican Congressmen do a good job.
You know, my pickup has a hard time pulling my fifth wheel trailer. I really believe the government has a responsibility to make car manufacturers build a really powerful pick up in my price range.
Unfortunately, letting it die naturally may be the only way to get the public to realize what an abject failure it truly is. Any fix, no matter how inconsequential, that is implemented by Trump and Republicans will be spun by the MSM so that Obamacare’s failure is their fault.
Get on the bandwagon, impeach Trump now before he succeeds even more.
Many, if not most, of the GOP are more committed to illegal aliens than they are to the citizens.
Where have you been the last 12 years?????????
Deal with what? Was Trump specific about what was replacing Obamacare?
No, he wasn't. So replace can mean anything. I prefer a full repeal and simply going back to what we had for a short-term period while we work to eliminate all federal government involvement in healthcare. Wilkow mentioned on his show today that all you had to do is let the states create their own cooperatives and partner up, and healthcare costs would drop like a stone. If Trump is advocating for Obamacare lite, then count me out, because the system is unsustainable. And I was one of the earliest supporters of him.
Healthcare has never been free market since the 1960s. Since the federal government stuck its nose into it, healthcare costs have exploded.
and it gave us the single most expensive medical care on the entire planet, in which millions and millions cannot even get coverage because of set of circumstance such as the loss of a job, or a pre-existing condition.
Caused again, by government interference into the market, which is distorting the price.
Is this a DU thread?
That is precisely right.
Nonsense.
So we should accept the premise that it is the federal government's job to "help" people obtain health coverage, right?
Getting rid of Obamacare just means insurance is returned to the purview of the state insurance commissioners.
Good. I have no problem with states like MA or CA creating their own mini-Obamacares. Let the states take care of the poor or whatever. I just don't want it federalized.
Please stop with the “DU” nonsense?
Are you a physician?
Oh yeah. That’s when they sent all those bill to Obama repealing Obamacare.
Amazing.
Lol.
My father was a physician from 1954 to 1985 and I will guarantee you that by the time he retired the free market in medicine was deader than a Dodo bird.
Voted for Gang of Amnesty:
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, McCain, Murkowsky and Rubio.
Would have but their votes weren’t needed:
Capito, Collins, Blunt, Cornyn, Gardner, Thune, Isackson, McConnell, Wicker, Cochran, Burr, Tillis, Portman.
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