Posted on 07/17/2017 7:59:21 PM PDT by springwater13
This is breaking on McConnel's twitter feed. Statement to abandon repeal/replace for a straight repeal with a 2 year delay to replace.
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“New math”
No it's not. In fact it's just the opposite. There were scores if not hundreds of carriers, not just one.
The structure of the company and the systems it managed are gone.
Many also had multiple lines of P/C coverage. They still exist and are alive and well providing your life, auto and homeowners insurance.
I'm pretty sure they have a pretty good handle on how to craft up properly structured free-market health coverage, not to mention retrieving archived policy documents that worked perfectly as policies in the past.
There are likely millions of underemployed actuaries dying to get back to work.
Mc Connell needs to wake up and get rid of that Stupid Senate 60 vote (Byrd) rule to get anything meaningful done.
No, if it gets a 2 year sunset, there is a very good chance they don’t pass anything and it completely goes away in 2 years.
There are two problems in congress.
1. McConnel won’t go back to the “Mr. Smith” filibuster rule.
2. Ryan won’t shutdown the gov by closing the checkbook until the senate does business.
Time for the Pres to revoke all corporate exemptions to Ocare and force congressional donors to bring pressure.
The Repeal Bill gives PLENTY of time to replace it - 2 years is long enough.
This is a good move by McConnell, put the bastards on record.
Smart move by McConnell (not understandable by the clueless) since it will formally put the Senators on record as opposing repeal. There is a reason that McConnell is Majority Leader no matter what is sometimes thought around here.
Check the Constitution.
How wrong can you be? There is no authority allowing the President to do anything about Congress’s leaders. What can you be thinking?
I did.
Theyre representatives - once the bill is in the floor we can lobby and put pressure on our representatives and senators to pass it.
While that sounds like something the Founders wanted the fact is laws like this have become so complicated and lengthy that it is almost impossible for a citizen to know what is in them. This is a huge problem. The law instituting Husseincare was over a thousand pages of legal goobledy-gook.
That is longer than ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” without Gibbon’s elegant prose and ironic humor, how long would it take YOU to read and understand it?
The best we can hope for is for capable lawyers to review it and tell us what is in it.
I’m talking about just outright repeal - I didn’t like the replace bill at all from what I was hearing but would’ve liked to see it pass to just poke Hussein in the eye.
I think a repeal would shake up the industries (insurance and health) and, like the fallout from the Paris accords, they’d find a much better solution than a centralized dictat would.
“Agreed. Brit Hume on FOX placed the failure squarely on Trump”
Brit Hume is a pompous a$$
Obamacare . . . control alt delete . . . revert back to personal responsibility for purchasing health insurance through employer backed programs or through competition from the providers . . . the poor can use the ER’s like they do anyway.
They should have done this in the first place. There is no reason to replace Obamacare with anything, because medical insurance and medical care are none of the federal government’s business.
Republicans need to quit trying to do big government better than the Democrats. We are supposed to be the party of less government.
Cowards.
Almost to a man. They’re much more frightened of their globalist donors than they are of voters. Like Jeb Bush’s big donors, they’re probably telling these cowards that they can get re-elected without the base, but not without the big money. Wrong again.
Will they ever get it, I wonder?
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