Posted on 07/19/2017 2:05:04 PM PDT by Innovative
Hoping to avoid a humiliating political defeat, President Trump on Wednesday demanded that Republican senators resume their efforts to approve a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, insisting that lawmakers are “very close.”
A day after the GOP strategy to roll back the ACA appeared dead, Trump invited Republican senators to lunch at the White House and challenged them to work out an agreement even if it means remaining in Washington through their summer recess next month. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had previously announced that the recess would be delayed by two weeks.
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I hope the senators are listening.
WaPo = A Whale of Poo
What good does it do to post this b/s from a known lying Leftist outlet other than demoralize the readers? If this story is true and has some redeeming value, at least get the story from a relatively reliable source, not from a known Lying Leftist operative posing as a “news” organization.
I don’t think the senators will listen. And I think Trump knows it. He’s making sure everyone sees him doing everything possible.
It will be no humiliating defeat for Trump...but for the uniparty establishment. When nothing gets done, President Trump will stop funding it ... a federal judge already said funding it was illegal.
If that doesn’t get their attention, he’ll “shut down the govt” and have the executive branch decide what’s “essential”... except this time it won’t be 0bama deciding...
0bamacare will be repealed. Just not the way we expect.
I’m giddy with happy
I would like to see President Trump quizzed for five minutes on the details of this terrific plan that is so close to passing.
sure ya would. and you’d be surprised at how much more he knows than you.
Thanks troll.
Shouldn’t you be at a protest with your pussy hat on??
I would sort of hope he did.
I know some of what is in the bill; it’s my job to understand it. It’s basically the ACA with fewer enforcement mechanisms and a little more insurer flexibility.
Though the damn thing seems to change day to day.
At the end of the day, this whole bill is coming down to how many people are going to end up on Medicaid. What is the point where Capito is happy with the Medicaid money but Cruz doesn’t bail out.
Why do you support the Senate’s bill?
Somehow, someway, the fury of the patriotic electorate must be made fully understood by this do-nothing, wet-noodle Congress.
They should no longer get away with selling us down the river!
I understand this President has fairly wide latitude with respect to Executive Orders, namely, that the stroke of a pen can either exempt everyone from 0care, or EVERYONE is required to suffer with it.
If so, why not do that? Seems like that, more than anything else, would bring the Senate to the table.
This is why President Trump is hammering on the "sell the plan" part of this. Someone has to get out there and lay out the case for: (1) why it's important to pass this bill, and (2) how much money ordinary Americans are going to save.
Item (2) is a very hard sell, because (as Barack Obama showed) it's easy for a politician to make up sh!t about how much money people are supposedly going to save.
No, they're not.
No, they're not.
How many were uninsured before Zer0care because they didn’t want it?
And how many were uninsured during Obama because they didn’t want it?
How many would be uninsured with a new system because they want to be without?
Are there answers to this?
To his credit (or I suppose derision), President Obama sold the hell out of his plan. He lied about what the end results would be but he understood the mechanics of the law backwards and forwards and sold it to his base.
President Trump has sent out a few tweets about how the bill is terrific.
He also took four positions on what the Senate should do in the past 24 hours.
A complicated policy with over 955 pages and countless congressional revisions, it is naïve to claim that the ACA is a wholly good or bad policy. With such complexity and nuance, sweeping statements of political or economic ideology do little to address the reality at hand. Provisions of the law are now being implemented, and it is essential that policymakers, medical practitioners, and innovators alike consider where opportunities for disruptive innovation reside. It is also essential to consider which provisions of the law might inhibit disruptive innovation and focus reform efforts on those provisions."
J.Gruber designed then bragged obamacare would be almost impossible to overturn/repeal...Gruber designed it that way. Call your elected now and tell them to explain the Affordable Care Act as a way of explaining the legal hoops they have to go through to repeal anything in the obamacare debacle.....it simply was made to make removing that mess from the law neigh on to impossible.
The Affordable Care Act is what we should all be calling obamacare...a buzz word making people believe in a fairy tale that Pelosi told congress to sign it before they could know what's in it. This horrible legislation is repealable but not with the MSM and Progressives confusing obamacare with the Affordable Care Act, the real name that should be used.
Neither Ryan nor McConnell are being honest with the American people by not explaining this.
The same plan that even Obama didn't know what the Hell was in it until it was rushed through by Congressional Democrats and their left-wing lobbyists?
It's not Trump's job to "create a plan." It's the Legislative Branch's job to create a plan that Trump will either agree to sign or veto.
Republicans promised for over 7 years to repeal Obamacare, not Trump.
Trump promised repeal and replace where everyone will be covered and premiums will be lower.
Does the Senate plan cover everyone and make premiums lower?
When a anti Trump, Obama loving suckass starts his column with A lie such as “A humiliating defeat for Trump”, instead of a defeat for the repucks, I don’t bother reading the rest of the crap.
Presidential candidates promise lots of things during election time. However, they're not legislators. The Legislative Branch writes the laws. The President signs or vetoes them. Even if Trump presented his own plan to Congress, it would have gotten rewritten into oblivion.
Does the Senate plan cover everyone and make premiums lower?
There is no more Senate replacement plan, so that question is moot.
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