Posted on 12/26/2017 5:17:39 AM PST by smileyface
Top House Republicans aren't giving up on Obamacare repeal next year, even though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he's ready to move on.
McConnell told NPR on Thursday that he thinks the Senate will “move on to other issues” instead of trying for repeal and replace in 2018. But several top conservatives in the House made it clear they wouldn't mind taking another shot.
“I still think there is enough bandwidth on the House side to get it done,” said Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., leader of the 170-member conservative Republican Study Committee.
The House was able to pass its own Obamacare repeal and replace bill in May, but the Senate couldn’t pass its own version in late July.
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If they have canceled the individual mandate, meaning you are no longer required to buy Obamacare, is anything more really required?
If you aren’t required to buy it, that already introduces competition into the pricing. Under the law the insurers are required to offer it, but you don’t have to buy it. Does that then open the door for them to offer other insurance plans, without any need for any new legislation?
That would really spike the whole issue. The Dems claim millions of people love it; they can keep it. The millions more who hate it, can now look for other plans. With one fell swoop.
With the Obamacare mandate gone, CBO scoring will be more supportive of repeal. That’s about 13 million people who will “lose their insurance” by choice, because Obamacare is worthless, which means those 13 million cases of lost insurance cannot be blamed on the repeal. That change should make it easier to repeal that bad law with no replacement.
They are interested in posturing and looking good not knowing if the leadership will lead them in a coup against President Trump and they need something to hold onto if they are forced into some scheme to bring down the POTUS.
They have to keep on posturing to fake out the folks back home.
The “litmus test” is that all but a handful have consistently voted for leadership like Boehner and now Ryan.
My congressman voted for both and had Boehner in the district for a fundraiser saying something along the lines that the GOP has all kinds of people in it, then blaming the media for reporting what he said to deflect from his acceptance of RINO’s and the RINO leadership.
If they have canceled the individual mandate, meaning you are no longer required to buy Obamacare, is anything more really required?
The mandate doesn't go away until 2019. That gives a year for the replace, which better happen or the Republican Party will have the tax cut intrinsically tied to healthcare during the 2018 mid-terms. President Trump says we will replace Obamacare with something better. They better get on with it. The idea of affording universal coverage by mandating people who don't want insurance to buy it or who can't or don't want to have babies buy maternity coverage is dead. Now we need to do the things which encourage competition and solves preexisting conditions.
My son, daughter, son in law, 2 granddaughters have no health insurance. Lower middle class got priced out by Obamacare pricy mandates. Youngest son went to Haiti church mission trip twice, came back with flesh eating skin disease twice. His body has fought it off, took years. Couldn’t afford Dr.
Youngest grand, 1 yr old, has hip displacia, lots of dr visits, treatments, paying cash for all. No insurance. Baby born at home. Can afford dr, hospital. I gave her 4k for midwife. We are retired.
Lower middle class can’t get obamacare subsidy, can’t afford health insurance. Stuck in middle.
I helped youngest son sign up for subsidized health insurance for under $100 a month. I planned to pay it. Bill came in for $244 a month. L8ke I said we r retired, our Medicare charges us $1400 a month for 2 of us, they take it out of our SS checks. This hit out retirement budget pretty hard. We so rarely go to a Dr.
Oldest son has health insurance at work. $1000 a month premium, big co pays, he only makes $32K a year pays more than 1/3 of his gross income. Married since 2007, health insurance used to be affordable before obamacare
Our niece in new Mexico has so health insurance, can’t afford it.
I bet these terrorists who bulb themselves in botched attacks like subway bomber, get free emergency room and hospitalization. We pay for that.
Our kids have been unable to get health insurance. Make too much for obamacare subsidies... Too little to buy it full price, even through employers. Lower middle class.
I am so angry with GOP. John Cornyn voted TO FUND OBAMACARE. I will NOT vote for that jackass!
That’s my question. If you are no longer required to buy Obamacare, doesn’t that already mean they have to compete on price for your dollar? Which theoretically should moderate the price even of the stupid Obamacare policy.
And if you aren’t required to buy it, doesn’t that open the door for the companies to offer other kinds of policies, without any new legislation? As I see it, if they don’t repeal Obamacare, the companies have to offer that specific policy. But what now prevents them from offering other policies, now that people don’t have to buy that one anymore?
That seems (to me) to eliminate the whole controversy. Don’t bother to repeal it, you simply move on and forget it. People who want it, can still get it, though at what price who knows. People who don’t want it, the insurers can compete for their business with other products.
I know exactly what you are saying. Without going into personal detail, almost no one I know has insurance, and those who do are being bankrupted by it.
Cannot afford hospital, don’t know why my computer changed it to CAN afford...
Sort of like EPA mileage standards. Car manufacturers have to make cheap little death boxes that nobody wants to buy, per the government's order,, and as a result, the vehicles that consumers do want to buy - vans for families, pick ups for men - have a much higher price, in order to cover the cost of churning out a fleet of government mandated crap cars.
The Senate does not have 60 votes that agree on a plan, and now 60 votes are necessary because when they had a narrow window, the legislation options were limited and there was no majority consensus. 2018 is an election year. It is a better idea to move to Infrastructure bills next and win more Senate seats without losing the House.
I met a gal with FIVE YOUNG KIDS who can’t insurance and pays the fine. She cleans houses, washes windows, her husband is a house framer. Seasonal work. So ppl w o health insurance because they can’t afford it, with 5 kids, pay the fine, which they can’t afford, pay all medical bills which they can’t afford. Triple whammy.
Obamacare Triple Whammy
What we learned about McConnell is to put him into a corner where he has to fight to stay alive as a politician, otherwise he does next to nothing. Trump did that. He had to show Mitch the way, the only way.
We are forced to pay $700 per month each for medicare. After paying for medicare forever. Husband worked from age 14 till almost 65, paid into medicare all 5hose years. Still paying. Has full retirement, paying income tax on that, too. Plus Texas has huge property tax rate b
Evidently the DNC has the dirt on him. Like Denny Hastert.
If he did it back in the Army, then he probably still wants to do it today. They probably filmed it.
I don’t believe it for a second. Actually the house MAY do something, but there are too many spineless government loving RINO pukes in the senate. One of the worst being my senator, Lisa Turdkowski.
The Senate needs to demote McTurtle when they get back from Christmas break!
There are still ridiculous ObamaCare mandates about coverage requirements for insurance plans. I don’t have the option of buying a low-cost plan that has an annual or lifetime cap on coverage, for example.
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