Posted on 07/18/2017 5:08:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was a HORRIBLE bill!!
Sundance (via TCTH)
“The 2015 bill was a defunding bill, not a repeal. McConnell is just tricking people into thinking this was going in the direction of a repeal. It’s not.
The GOP have never, ever, voted for a repeal. That would take 60 votes. They voted in 2015 to defund it using the 51 vote threshold of ‘reconciliation’. They’ve never once had a repeal vote on Obamacare.”
Are not in favor of the Cruz Amendment?
Yes, but it was not going to be in that bill. And why the HELL wasn’t selling across state lines in there???
“It’s dead, Jim.”
Where was tort reform? Hundreds of millions of dollars wind up in the pockets of malpractice lawyers. We pay for that when doctors raise their fees to pay soaring malpractice insurance rates.
“Republicans are finally getting smart on Obamacare. It took one of the savviest Republican senators — Ted Cruz of Texas, with an assist from Mike Lee of Utah — to get the GOP to figure out how to replace Obamacare, reduce premiums and save money for the government, all without alienating millions of voters. He’s pulled the Republicans’ fannies out of the fire, flipping a losing strategy into a big-time winner.”
Yeah, such a big-time winner that last night it was taken out back and shot by the same Mike Lee who supposedly assisted Cruz in crafting it.
This timely article stands as a great monument to the foolishness of hero-worshiping Ted Cruz.
EXACTLY!
But McConnell is Uni-Party leftist/globalist and will avoid the nuclear option.
That sounds right.It gets rid of the taxes and spending.
That includes the personal mandate (a tax) but not the pre-existing conditions requirement,
They need that $$ for the tax bill, they keep on pointing that out.
But I don't see them getting the votes now on that again.
Selling across state lines is a no brainer as anyone aware of the price restraining value of competition will tell you.
Only reason I can think of for not allowing this competition is the Co. currently selling insurance in various States simply do not want the competition and they are putting pressure on the scumbag, spineless politicians in the various States who are happy and eager to fold for a few pieces of silver..
“We will return!”
Sort of MacArthuresque.
Can’t this POS get repealed with reconciliation, since it was passed with reconciliation?
At least he and Lee were not looking to cut a deal.
Lyn’ Ted is a distraction and hasn’t accomplished anything. Congress is total failure.
“Only reason I can think of for not allowing this competition ...”
I’d say this: if any measure reduces the inflow of money into the medical industry then it has 2.999 strikes against it.
>>>Selling across state lines is a no brainer as anyone aware of the price restraining value of competition will tell you.
What good does it do me to purchase insurance from a provider in another state if all of the in-network providers are also in that state?
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