It's about time for Republicans to get their act together.
Now all they have to do is pass it.
I don’t trust them. Something smells on this.
Eliminating the penalty is helpful. It gives people an out.
But there are other features of the ironically-named ACA that are killing people. Most of these could be choked to death by open competition and allowance for bare-bones insurance policies.
Great, allow nationwide competition and policy feature selection, pass it and watch Obamacare try to compete on the nearly free market.
Trump came back and demanded heads for Moore.
Who said he’s not a politician.
That would be good.
I wouldn't be suurpised if the cost of health care went down when companies actually had to come up with plans that people wanted. It'll be up to them to increase their healthy pool.
The Republicans in the Senate know that Obamacare will haunt them in the 2018 election if they do not do something. Now they can say they repealed it, but they really did not.
It was President Trump that basically killed Obama Care with an Executive Order. The Senate Republicans are simply covering their a*ses.
DO NOT TRUST MCCONNELL.
He must bust removed from office ASAP.
$10 says John McCain(Songbird) torpedoes it.
The Trump administration was effectively going to kill the individual mandate by issuing an executive order that let every U.S. taxpayer qualify for a “hardship” exemption from the individual mandate — as is perfectly legal under the ACA statute.
After all, it IS a tax...isn’t that right, Chief Justice Roberts? wink, wink
It’s a poison pill designed to scuttle the bill.
The gop faction of the uniparty is bound and determined to lose in 2018.
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing
Repealing the HusseinCare tax should have been done in February.
The “tax reform” bills are both turds. They reform individual deductions, not individual tax rates.
Some logic!
It actually saves $300 billion off the deficit (making it easier to approve the budget with 51 votes) over 10 years - since we don’t force people to sign up (no mandate), 13 million won’t be forced to get insurance, therefore, the government won’t have to subsidize it and we save $300 billion.
The left will go crazy “but 13 million people won’t get insurance!!!”
Maybe they choose not to get insurance. Isn’t that their right too?
This is their public-facing position, but one wonders, what are they doing to make sure this provision never sees the light of day?
Related article:
”Conservatives led by GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) pushed hard to include the provision, which would eliminate the federal penalty on people who do not buy health insurance. President Trump has also pushed for the provision to be part of the tax bill.”
Adding a repeal of the individual mandate to Senate Tax Reform bill is a clear sign that leadership knows tax reform is going to fail and that Congressional Republicans will need this vote to help them in close 2018 elections.
I'll get exciting when it becomes law.
Make each and every working individual and business pay a tax rate of ONLY 15%, without any chance of, ever, increasing that rate. The chances of decreasing the rate of 15%, in the future, should be there, though. It continues to be very foolish to punish the wealthy with much higher tax rates, instead of keeping the tax rates the same for everybody. The wealthy are paying more than everybody else, anyways, even with a 15% tax rate. BTW, what is President Trump’s view of the Fair Tax?
Hahaha. I guess McCain needed a reason to oppose the tax bill.