Posted on 09/28/2017 12:28:27 PM PDT by C19fan
Two U.S. senators from both parties are close to finalizing a bipartisan deal to shore up the health insurance exchanges created under Obamacare, the chamber’s top Democrat said on Thursday.
The move, which Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said was “on the verge” of completion, would stabilize the market for individuals who buy their own insurance plans on the federal or state-based exchanges.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
It must be true because shoemore said so.
I think the message should be that nothing has changed. This disaster IS Obamacare. A well written law does not need tinkering. It is written for eternity. As an example, consider “that shalt not kill,” or the Bill of Rights.
As for funding, Reuters and others remind us that we have a federal deficit. Time to pair back funding.
I can appreciate your utter frustration with the pubbies but cutting off your nose to spite your face, as the old saying goes, is never a good idea.
Nothing permanent please!
That’s a great idea. Give the Dems more power so they can go single payer...bite off nose...spite face.
This will ne4ver pass the House and Trump will veto it if it does. This is a joke and no one is laughing.
Attach ALL the riders from the failed bills, particularly the cross-state solutions ... Make the Dems REJECT their own BILL!
You raise a good point - now would be a good time to lure mailman jr to DC as hobocare czar, and then after a year bury kissoff in taint ... Load his pockets with 527 gold then breitbart him ....
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In before the “at least it would be getting something done” crowd.
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No, no, it’s the “At least it’s X%. We’ll get the other Y%...*LATER*” (1/2-loaf theory. Never mind ‘later’ N-E-V-E-R comes) crowd. Probably the same...
Oh HELL no!!!
:) You've got Lamar, I've got linda. Kinda makes us even.
I doubt the rats are worried about Moore. He still has to get elected.
I Expect the dems and the ‘reps’ to form a coalition to keep him out of office.
“Trump should veto.”
Trump better veto or I will be ticked. If he does not then he is just rewarding a lying congress and going against his own word. His only leverage is to allow that tax sucking atrocity called Obamacare to fall.
You think garbage will pass .
Your praising Dem Uniparty hack JohnK here ?
Good luck Never Trumper
[The pact could buoy health insurance companies, which came out forcefully against the Republican repeal effort and have faced uncertainty since the November election of Republican President Donald Trump, who vowed to sink the law.]
The “Keep the Corporate Donors Happy Act of 2017”
Funding bills may originate in the Senate. You're thinking of taxing bills. According to the Constitution, all taxes must originate in the House. Of course, Courts routinely ignore that part (along with many other sections) of the Constitution.
The failure to repeal - at least partially - the ACA puts us in a Catch 22 with the Democrats: We can either shore up the exchanges, or allow it to collapse completely - but the latter could risk having much of the underlying infrastructure also collapse, opening the way for single payer (which was the goal all along) because there would be little to nothing left to salvage even if Obamacare was repealed. They planned this most cleverly.
LOL. That was funny, right there. Glad you saw the missing /s!!!
When I write, “...Medicaid expanding...Exchange enabling govs...” does that really sound like praise to you? You are suffering from TDS it isn’t exclusive to the left. Just a little too quick to pull the over used “Never Trumper” epithet.
At least our other RINO is retiring. But we sure need to do something about the governor also.
I don’t understand how conservative Southern States can vote for these people!
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