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Senate G.O.P. Leaders to Unveil Health Care Bill to Try Winning Over Skeptics
The New York Slimes ^ | July 13, 2017 | Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan

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 party’s seven-year quest to dismantle the health law that is a pillar of former President Barack Obama’s 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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gop4obamacare; gopliars; liarmcconnell; nevertrustthegop

1 posted on 07/13/2017 8:36:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
McConnell leads the chorus: Yes we can. ♫ ♫ Yes we can. ♫ ♫
2 posted on 07/13/2017 8:43:58 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Republicans are past masters at “chrome plating turds!” The RATs are adroit at picking turds up by “the clean end.” Take your pick!


3 posted on 07/13/2017 8:45:28 AM PDT by vette6387
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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.


4 posted on 07/13/2017 8:45:46 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpers before Trumpin' was cool !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or they could just repeal the whole thing like they promised.


5 posted on 07/13/2017 9:00:08 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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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.


6 posted on 07/13/2017 9:02:29 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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“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.

rwood


7 posted on 07/13/2017 9:04:02 AM PDT by Redwood71
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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.


8 posted on 07/13/2017 9:30:57 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpers before Trumpin' was cool !)
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“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!)


9 posted on 07/13/2017 10:05:32 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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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.


10 posted on 07/13/2017 10:17:08 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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11 posted on 07/13/2017 10:21:46 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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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.


12 posted on 07/13/2017 10:27:55 AM PDT by Owen
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Why would you think primarying Flake in Arizona results in a more conservative senator?

Or Heller in Nevada?


13 posted on 07/13/2017 10:30:49 AM PDT by Owen
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Repeal. Clean and simple.

Replace. New bills.


14 posted on 07/13/2017 11:14:22 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.....


15 posted on 07/13/2017 9:18:29 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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