Posted on 04/26/2017 12:13:14 PM PDT by johnk
The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced it will back the GOP's healthcare plan now that an amendment allowing states to opt out of key ObamaCare rules is included.
The group of roughly 30 hard-line conservatives held out for weeks, scuttling a planned House vote on the bill last month after it became clear there was't enough Republican support to pass it.
The group said it sees the new amendment, brokered by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and centrist Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), as the best option short of fully repealing the 2010 law.
"While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs," the Freedom Caucus said in a statement.
"We look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to improve the bill. Our work will continue until we fully repeal Obamacare."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Make Congress participate.
My theory has been that this whole second round exercise after the first bill failed in March has been about coming up with a bill that the Freedom Caucus can support, even if it means that not many other people can support it.
It will get the HFC off the hook for being the ones who shot it down, even though it will remain shot down, for better or worse depending on your p.o.v.. I still don’t think deep down anything’s gonna pass, but I try to keep an open mind.
Liars. The bill does not repeal ACA, it amends it.
How does eliminating coverage for pre-existing conditions (for states that choose to do so) going to “lower costs”?
Freaking liars. The whole lot of them are pond scum.
just REPEAL that Ocare pile of sh(t! and be done with it!
the fed govt has ZERO constitutional authority to take over private citiens’ heath care
and they do a crappy job of it, naturally, too
It’s ultimately up to patriots to support Trump with a full repeal Obamacare in the November ’18 elections.
Allow states to opt-out of the entire thing
Then when no one is in it anymore, delete the remaining bureaucracy
Geez what the hell do we have to do to kill this thing????
They can repeal it entirely, or lose the House & Senate in 2018 and the White House in 2020. It’s that simple.
Half a loaf is still half a loaf.
Yeah, we’ve got the most conservative bill possible now, thanks to the HFC.
I expect the Senate to turn it into “Obamacare+” and send it back to the House to be passed by RINO and Democrat votes.
But I try to keep an open mind too.
Interesting theory.
Hearing illegals still get health care with this
What this is, is a bill to give the healthcare bill money so it won’t explode on it’s own...
WE WANT IT TO EXPLODE AND THEN GIVE US OUR OWN CHOICES TO GET OUR OWN INSURANCE AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S!!!
Dude? See, if they REPEAL obamacare and then REPLACE it with something having ANY part of obamacare such as kids remaining on parents policy until age 26, why that DOES mean it was simply “amended”.
Got that?
Trump ran on “repeal AND replace”. If you think people are going to win congressional seats on “just repeal”, well come on back in 18 months and we’ll see how that turned out.
Fire 90% of Congress, and elect a better class of representatives.
A massive letter writing campaign would also help a lot, but most of us would rather sit on our duffs complaining about it on the internet.
As long as I’m not fined, I could in theory buy a mandate-free insurance policy from a British company in Britain.
But why should I have to give my money to foreigners?
Stop with the repeal and replace nonsense.
There is no repeal.
It is rearrange and repair of Obamacare.
It’s still Obamacare, even with a name change.
Repeal means revoke or annul a previous piece of legislation.
They are not doing that, they are amending that previous piece of legislation.
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