Posted on 06/02/2017 6:02:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.) said that the Senate probably won’t reach a deal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act when it returns from a recess next week, in a stark assessment of the party’s health-care prospects.
“It’s unlikely that we will get a health-care deal,” Mr. Burr told WXII 12 News, a North Carolina news station, on Thursday. He said that the House-passed GOP health plan was “dead on arrival,” and that “I don’t see a comprehensive health-care plan this year.”
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Burr is my senator. I voted for him, always have. However that statement that he won’t even try to get a health care bill through this year just took all the wind out of my sails. What I thought of him before is no longer true today. What a disappointment!!!
“...This is exactly why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed...”
and the sooner the better.
The 17th was a major mistake and contrary to the ideals of our Founding Fathers.
No repeal of obamacare. They’ve had EIGHT YEARS to get ready for this moment.
And tax reform is looking dimmer everyday no thanks to Speaker Ryan’s lusting after a border adjustment tax.
If they can’t get these two things done this year, I’m done with the GOPe and financially support any primary opponents.
They are going to wait another year or two until the premiums are unaffordable then move us to single payer. Its the easy way out and the GOP is nothing if not all about the easy way out. They will come up with a sales tax to pay for it so our income taxes won’t be affected. Don’t shoot me I’m just the messenger.
With all the GOPe RINOs, Trump has an uphill battle to keep his promises - pretty sad that the Repubs can’t grasp this once in a generation opportunity by the horns....
Most of them are Democrats in R jerseys.
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse are all Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
Remove them from office.
The government provides subsidized health insurance just like every other large employer.
They can stop paying for it but they would then need to increase salaries so the employees can buy their own.
That’s because, being without strong attachment to the Constitution as Law and what this country was founded to be, being themselves corrupted by the same ideology that men like FDR championed, they do not treat so-called “progressives” as those to be defeated and dismayed but as people they want to work with.
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