Posted on 06/30/2017 8:07:40 AM PDT by Rockitz
President Donald Trump suggested in a tweet that if Republicans remain unable to pass their current healthcare bill, they should immediately repeal and then replace Obamacare.
President Trump previously endorsed the Senate healthcare bill, otherwise known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), however, since Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote on the BCRA President Trump has looked into other options. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) recently suggested repealing and replacing Obamacare in two separate bills, an idea that apparently President Trump might endorse if Republicans remain unable to pass the BCRA.
Trump tweeted:
"If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!"
Sen. Paul said his proposal would divide the bill in two, Republicans would push for an Obamacare repeal bill which would pass with conservative support and another spending bill which would entice Democrats to support the measure.
The Kentucky senator explained, “So what I’ve come up with, and I talked to the president yesterday about this, is what about dividing the bill in two? Do the repeal, which no Democrat will vote for. Repeal the taxes, repeal the regulations, and do a fix to Medicaid that helps to pay for everything. No Democrats will vote for anything good like that. But Democrats will always vote for spending. So the big government Republicans that want more spending, take the spending and put it in the bill that Democrats will vote for.”
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YES!!!!
I have to wonder if this is what Trump was hoping for all along?
He supported the replacement and now that it failed he can justify repealing the failing Obamacare and then he can just eternally drag his feet on replacing it...if ever.
Yes! Repeal it now. Then if they can’t ever get the votes to replace it ... well I could live with that.
This is COVFEFE in action!!!
GO TRUMP!!! MAGA!!!
Well, he’s half right..................
We were talking about Senator Paul’s suggestion yesterday here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565200/posts
AMEN!
At least the democRATs would be forced to engage again if Obamacare were gone.
In the immortal words of KC and the Sunshine Band: That’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it, uh huh, uh huh.
YES!!!
Pass a SUNSET law- declare it to be gone by the end of this year. That will give people time to prepare to get off of it.
THEN they can ‘pretend’ to wok on a new one, and let them fight that battle forever....
The only thing I worry about is that I’m not so sure this Congress would not pass ObamaCare all over again even in its current GOP dominant makeup.
In the meantime, are there provisions that could reasonably be done away with simply by invoking all of the “as the Secretary deems” clauses?
Like he did with the Paris climate accord.
LOL, Trump clearly gets it.
Excellent! This will kill Yurtle the Turtle’s bill.
(whispered) "So the President can then veto it."
C’mon you spineless ninnies. The d’rats performed pretzel twists to pass o’care. They found a way to get it done. Expand your minds to explore these possibilities for yourselves.
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