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After golf with Trump, Paul says 'very optimistic' about ObamaCare repeal
Fox News. com ^ | April 2, 2017 | Joseph Weber

Posted on 04/02/2017 3:49:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

optimistic' about ObamaCare repeal Joseph Weber

By Joseph Weber Published April 02, 2017 FoxNews.com Facebook Twitter livefyre Email Print Now Playing

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a top conservative critic of House Republicans’ failed plan to replace ObamaCare, concluded his golf outing Sunday with President Trump by saying party members are “getting closer” on a compromise repeal plan and that he remains “very optimistic.”

The president’s invitation for Paul to play at Trump National Golf Club in northern Virginia is a sign that he is trying again to negotiate with congressional conservatives who failed to back the originial ObamaCare overhaul plan, after weeks of attacking them.

“We had a great day with the president,” Paul said after playing with Trump and White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. “We did talk about some health care reform. I think the sides are getting closer and closer together. And I remain very optimistic that we will get an ObamaCare repeal.”

Paul, a licensed opthamologist and Tea Party favorite, has his own ObamaCare replacement plan, which he argues goes further than the Republican House leadership plan to fully repeal and replace the 2010 health care law, under which consumers are facing rising costs and fewer policy options.

White House official Stephanie Grisham said earlier Sunday that the threesome would discussing several issues at the club but that health care would be “a big topic.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: presidenttrump; randpaul; randpaulgolf; ryancarebillpulled
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To: sagar

>Pre-Existing condition is THE deal killer. This FORCES the insurance companies to “cover” extremely sick and costly individuals, so the cost is passed on to the rest. THIS pre-existing MANDATE has to go for a free market to operate properly.

Isn’t that the point of insurance? To spread out the costs and the risk?


41 posted on 04/02/2017 4:57:31 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: gibsonguy

How about Rand Paul for speaker of the house?


42 posted on 04/02/2017 4:59:16 PM PDT by paulk ( If one fails to learn self discipline, Don't worry; there will be others to boss you around. -kps)
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To: RedWulf

Got a source for that?


43 posted on 04/02/2017 4:59:23 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: sagar
I want a stand-alone repeal bill too. I've been advocating it the loudest here since the debate began. But I also want to win the Powerball Lottery as well.

In the meantime, I'll be very happy with winning 5 of 5 w/o the Powerball or even 4 of 5 with the Powerball. That's still $1 million dollars, or $50,000 respectively. That's what you'll get with the compromise bill.

44 posted on 04/02/2017 4:59:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: sagar
Not even for something better?

What do you mean by free market solutions?

45 posted on 04/02/2017 4:59:29 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: j.argese

“You do understand the concept of insurance?”

Of course, I do.
Just like a car insurance company does not want to cover a totaled car or a car that does not start.
Just like a home insurance company does not want to cover a house already damaged by tornado.
Just like a life insurance company does not want to cover a person already dead or in his death bed.

What’s next? The gubmint comes down on life insurance companies for refusing to insure terminally ill people? This “pre-existing mandate” is a gubmint tyranny and it needs to be thrown out.


46 posted on 04/02/2017 4:59:30 PM PDT by sagar
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To: irish guard
>>All hat and no cattle so far<<

That sayin comin from a Wisconsin feller perked up my ears. lol.

Thanx for takin the time to call’em. You're one of the few.

47 posted on 04/02/2017 5:00:12 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Is the Management Amendment in there still?


48 posted on 04/02/2017 5:00:36 PM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: Kaslin

This time around it appears there are a whole lot of talks going on behinds the scenes this time around. I think they will get a consensus before announcing a new vote on a healthcare bill. It also appears that President Trump is playing major role in the “new” healthcare bill.


49 posted on 04/02/2017 5:02:54 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: achilles2000

>Got a source for that?

From a new source? LOL no. They’d never report anything connecting Obama to buttsecks side. Just something that’s popping up on rightwing blogs for a long time now. Might just be a rumor.


50 posted on 04/02/2017 5:04:20 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: RedWulf

“Isn’t that the point of insurance? To spread out the costs and the risk?”

With the pre-existing condition mandate, there is ONLY cost and risk, no reward for the companies. Also, those companies aren’t charities. They need to be held accountable to their shareholders.

Get the gubmint out, or else the gubmint will be the single payer. These mandates are just evil.


51 posted on 04/02/2017 5:04:31 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Kaslin

what is a Laro Marco???


52 posted on 04/02/2017 5:06:58 PM PDT by slickdain (Make America Wealthy Again ... STOP H-1b visas!)
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To: RedWulf

“From what I read Putin never refers to Obama by name in the Kremlin, he just called him that homo in the white house.”

Boy, he sure had Obama’s number.


53 posted on 04/02/2017 5:09:06 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: jazminerose

Agree. When I was in the service the two best places to get stuff done with senior leadership was either the golf course or the gym.


54 posted on 04/02/2017 5:11:28 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: sagar

>With the pre-existing condition mandate, there is ONLY cost and risk, no reward for the companies. Also, those companies aren’t charities. They need to be held accountable to their shareholders.

You do realize that insurance companies are and always have been quasi government agencies, right? When they exist on their own without regulation they always take short term profit over long term safety and tend to blow up when they frequently bet wrong. So they’re already regulated to death and are not freemarket.

>Get the gubmint out, or else the gubmint will be the single payer. These mandates are just evil.

Could you sell that to the voters? It going to sound really heartless. If you can’t convince people then pushing that view will just harm our cause.


55 posted on 04/02/2017 5:12:10 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: sagar
>> "Pre-Existing condition is THE deal killer."

Imagine, if you will, an insurance company that would grant coverage to someone after the wreck occurred.

What would the premiums be for everyone else?

56 posted on 04/02/2017 5:15:18 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Why be less than Radical!)
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To: WENDLE
Slow down when you type. There are no

people

57 posted on 04/02/2017 5:17:09 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe it’s just me— but I don’t give a crap how somebody “feels” about a bill that we haven’t seen— This is bull crap. Get that bill our here!! Plenty of time to analyze. Then I want a full breakdown , by republican congressman, of all contributions to them by the following 1. insurance companies. 2, Insurance company employees. ,3. Doctors 4.doctors employees and wives. What am I missing?


58 posted on 04/02/2017 5:17:45 PM PDT by WENDLE (The key is criminal prosecution of sanctuary city officials-- BIG TIME. where is SESSIONS?)
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To: Cementjungle

Well, it doesn’t really matter where he is. He works, where ever he is.


59 posted on 04/02/2017 5:20:15 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: ebshumidors
Regarding full repeal. That would be bring us back to where we were which gave the dems the reason to pass Obama care. The old system had faults. Let’s see what Trump comes up with.

Trump should have Price mark up a Mo Brooks full repeal. That way you get a bill that fully repeals Obamacare, with added free market solutions.

60 posted on 04/02/2017 5:23:20 PM PDT by FreeReign
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