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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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.
Put a SC on their tails for their crimez of perjury and fraud.
...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 !
Why does he always telegraph? Trial baloons?
He needs to re-watch Michael Corleone
Just DO it!
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.
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Absolutely, yes. So, PDJT can make a blanket yank of coverage, then specifically exempt the good guys. Love it.
Oh, liberal heads at Yahoo will exploding any second now!!!
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.
And when Trump stops the subsidies then watch them skyrocket even more.
.... 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?
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.
The Payments aren’t even legal are they?
Yo john mccain: cancer is gonna kick your ass! And all your dirty soros money is powerless to stop it. Suck it!
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.
Yeah. Where there's no competitive environment, the consumer gets raked over the coals.
Actually, Obama exempted Congress. Trump can overturn that EO.
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