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Trump threatens to end ObamaCare payments unless repeal passes
MSN.com ^ | July 29, 2017 | Julia Manchester

Posted on 07/29/2017 2:57:33 PM PDT by Hadean

President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed.

"After seven years of 'talking' Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country are still being forced to live with imploding ObamaCare!" the president wrote in a tweet.

"If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!" he added.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) fired back Saturday, saying Trump should "stop playing politics with people's lives and health care, start leading, and finally begin acting presidential."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congressexempt; obamacare; obamacareinsurers; trumpobamacare
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To: Hadean

Mitch needs to threaten to takeaway key Chair positions from Senators who don’t support repeal.

Juan is chair of the Senate Armed Forces Committee.
Murk is chair of the Senate Energy Committee.
Collins is chair of the Senate Committee on Aging.


41 posted on 07/29/2017 4:16:00 PM PDT by proudpapa (This is not the tagline you are looking for.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Put a SC on their tails for their crimez of perjury and fraud.


42 posted on 07/29/2017 4:17:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: DoodleDawg
Schumer uses it for the 2018 elections.

...which prompts the cowardly Republicans to get it done....or go home and stay home cause your butt won't have a prayer in the primary, not to mention the general election. I love the move, now DO IT !

43 posted on 07/29/2017 4:28:43 PM PDT by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: Hadean

Why does he always telegraph? Trial baloons?

He needs to re-watch Michael Corleone

Just DO it!


44 posted on 07/29/2017 4:29:54 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: House Atreides

Congresscritters excuse is that such a move hurts their staffers, not the reps themselves....which would eventually force them to cut staff (OK so far) or increase their contribution (also OK). Either way they won’t be happy with it and should get them off their arse. John Q public will love both aspects. A big win, as I see it.


45 posted on 07/29/2017 4:37:27 PM PDT by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: Paladin2

>>Brat and Gomert
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Absolutely, yes. So, PDJT can make a blanket yank of coverage, then specifically exempt the good guys. Love it.


46 posted on 07/29/2017 4:41:32 PM PDT by Kalamata (It's past time for pitchforks.)
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To: Hadean

Oh, liberal heads at Yahoo will exploding any second now!!!


47 posted on 07/29/2017 4:45:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: Hadean
This is an absolutely brilliant move. The reason nothing got done on Obamacare was the crooked symbiotic relationship between our paid off politicians and the crony capitalists who have been taking easy money at the government trough for so long they can no longer operate without it. Watch how fast the crooked politicians get off their keisters now.
48 posted on 07/29/2017 4:55:01 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Hadean

I don’t think Trump is helping his cause by making these statements. The Dems will simply blame him if it fails. Which it ultimately will. These are the kinds of things you tell you own people behind closed doors.


49 posted on 07/29/2017 4:58:25 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: miss marmelstein
You’re a fool, Never Trumper. My premiums went from 29 dollar a month to $4,000 a month in January. If that’s not skyrocketing, what is???

And when Trump stops the subsidies then watch them skyrocket even more.

50 posted on 07/29/2017 4:58:32 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Hadean

.... Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) fired back Saturday, saying Trump should “stop playing politics with people’s lives....

Isn’t that a major part of liberalism and the Democrat party?


52 posted on 07/29/2017 5:06:55 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: DoodleDawg; Brilliant
Ending health care subsidies is a sound and practical move. Government is taking from the taxpayers, giving it to those without coverage, and giving more money to insurance companies to subsidize them to provide coverage to the uninsured even more.

End the subsidies, end the stranglehold that United Health, Aetna, and Humana have over the health insurance market, and deregulate the entire industry.

If auto insurance can be sold by cute little gekkos or the voice of Dennis Haysbert, then health insurance sure as Hell can be sold the same way.

53 posted on 07/29/2017 5:33:58 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: Hadean
Why is this class EXEMPT?


54 posted on 07/29/2017 5:52:15 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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55 posted on 07/29/2017 6:02:54 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Hadean

The Payments aren’t even legal are they?


56 posted on 07/29/2017 9:31:22 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Congressional Bi-partisanship: Agreeing to the make up of the Trump firing squad.)
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To: HokieMom

Yo john mccain: cancer is gonna kick your ass! And all your dirty soros money is powerless to stop it. Suck it!


57 posted on 07/30/2017 1:17:33 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: edie1960

Trump can’t do that. He is not a dictator. Congress exempted themselves from the law, which they do with most laws they pass. The voters shouldn’t allow it or the president should veto laws that Congress exempt themselves. But laws are so hard to pass, no president is going to veto it because of that.


58 posted on 07/30/2017 1:23:53 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If auto insurance can be sold by cute little gekkos or the voice of Dennis Haysbert, then health insurance sure as Hell can be sold the same way.

Yeah. Where there's no competitive environment, the consumer gets raked over the coals.

59 posted on 07/30/2017 4:08:14 AM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: Dave W

Actually, Obama exempted Congress. Trump can overturn that EO.


60 posted on 07/30/2017 6:32:53 AM PDT by rb22982
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