Posted on 07/13/2017 8:36:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON Senate Republican leaders were poised on Thursday to unveil a fresh proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, revising their bill to help hold down insurance costs for consumers while keeping a pair of taxes on high-income people that they had planned to eliminate.
With the revised bill, the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, is trying to keep alive his partys seven-year quest to dismantle the health law that is a pillar of former President Barack Obamas legacy.
Republicans said the revised bill would provide roughly $70 billion in additional funds that states could use to help reduce premiums, hold down out-of-pocket costs and otherwise make health care more affordable. The bill already included more than $100 billion for such purposes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Republicans are past masters at “chrome plating turds!” The RATs are adroit at picking turds up by “the clean end.” Take your pick!
Remember - the GOP analysis of the effect of Obamacare on the IRS was that it would add somwhere around $5 billion dollars to the IRS operational costs and require the hiring of between 15,000 and 20,000 new employees to enforce the Obamacare laws.
Any republican bill that doesn’t roll that cost back and cut those employees is a sham.
Or they could just repeal the whole thing like they promised.
If the new bill subsidizes insurance companies and doesn’t rein in pharmaceutical costs, it’s “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” with DC swampthings. If it doesn’t end the mandate and allow for alternative policies, it means just about every elected Republican in the US Senate and HOR is a bare-*ssed liar.
“Try Winning Over Skeptics?”
The only skeptics they should be concerned about are the voters. What the senate and the house vote is what we will get from them and the skeptics need to get their two cents in before it is signed by Trump. The senate and house conservatives don’t have anything to prove to their peers. They were elected to do just what they are doing. And coming from the source listed, NY Times I can understand that the libs can’t win by vote, so they will try to win by attempting fear. Same old democrat playbook. If you can’t win with facts, destroy the person trying to improve the problem. Most of the time with lies.
The conservatives need to let the libs know that the conservatives are in charge because the people put them there. So, lead, follow, or get out of the way. I don’t have time for Judas.
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Washington Republicans still pretending they don’t understand why voters gave them the presidency and majorities in the senate and the house.
Trying to replace Obamacare with McConnell-Care.
“Repeal” as in: GET RID of the damn thing.
“Sell” as in: SELL INSURANCE across state lines.
“Replace” as in: whenever you are DAMN GOOD AND READY. (And NOT before!)
Fine, Rand Paul and the GOPe senator from Maine can vote against, and maybe a few more, and then we will see if McConnell has the balls to put direct REPEAL up for vote.
A REPEAL bill would smoke out the many GOP liars and frauds who have been running on REPEAL for the past 6 years and those congresspeople, when they vote against direct REPEAL, can be primaried and hopefully defeated.
Trump ran on repeal and replace.
That’s just the way it is.
The only thing the replacement requires is lower premiums and something that can pass.
NOTHING ELSE. ANYTHING ELSE WON’T PASS.
Why would you think primarying Flake in Arizona results in a more conservative senator?
Or Heller in Nevada?
Repeal. Clean and simple.
Replace. New bills.
Collins of Maine says she won’t vote for it because it has too many cuts in Medicaid but she’ll happily work with Republicans and Democrats to fix Obamacare - Hannity tonight showed a three year old clip of her on the Senate floor speaking about how bad Obamacare was for the country and how it had to be replaced with something much better - this pathetic excuse for a senator should be primaried at the earliest possible moment.....
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