Posted on 10/08/2018 2:17:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats are planning to force a vote in the Senate this week on overturning a Trump administration rule expanding non-ObamaCare insurance plans.
The Democratic resolution, which will likely get a vote on Wednesday, would overturn a rule finalized in August that expanded the availability of short-term health insurance plans.
Democrats decry the plans as “junk” insurance because they does not need to cover pre-existing conditions or follow other ObamaCare rules. Republicans argue the plans provide a cheaper option alongside ObamaCare plans. The resolution, which is supported by all 49 Senate Democrats, is unlikely to pass given that it would need 51 votes, although GOP Sens. Lisa Murkwoski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine), who broke with their party on health care last year, have not publicly said how they will vote.
Even a failed vote, however, would allow Democrats to hammer Republicans on the issue of pre-existing conditions, which they have made central to the campaign ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Democrats point out that the short-term health insurance plans can deny people who have pre-existing conditions.
The rule in question, finalized by the Trump administration in August, lifts restrictions that limited short-term plans to a duration of three months. Under the new rules, short-term plans can last up to a year, which critics say makes them not actually “short-term” at all.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who is up for reelection this year, is the main sponsor of the resolution.
On Wednesday we are voting to overturn these junks plans. I am eager to see whether Republicans want to support these junk plans and stick w Trump or do they want to support their constituents. I think they stick w Trump.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 8, 2018
Gotta shift the narrative before the mid-terms. It illustrates how much of a screw up BK was for them.
FREE! As in Medicare For All.
And Republicans have done a lousy job countering it.
LOL - They should delay the vote till after the election
That’s true; however, since the Dems do NOT have a majority in the Senate nor the House, there is NOTHING that they can DO, to force anything they want, to be brought to either floor. And they are NOT going to win a majority, in either House, in the upcoming midterm election!
> They’re bankrupt. They got absolutely nothing left.
Yup, they haven’t even the ability to force Trump to veto this - even if they do manage to wrangle the votes to pass in the Senate, it’ll never pass the House.
yeah that's what I was thinking, how can the minority force a vote on anything?
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They already know that they’re going to lose multiple seats in the senate.
In which case, they can sign up for Obamacare plans. In the meantime, millions of people that do not have pre-existing conditions can get health insurnce at a more reasonable/affordable rate. And the democrats are against this? Must be because Trump is for it.
It's shocking enough, that some posters here don't understand HOW our government works...but when it comes from the Dems and/or the N.Y. Times, well that is just INSANE!
The GOP could blow this.
This is the single issue, which the GOP could lose everything on.
So that the price for people with pre-extisting conditions can be less?
You want to lower health-care costs? How about stop being Hospital to the World.
Remove the illegals.
You want to lower health-care costs? How about stop being Hospital to the World.
Remove the illegals.
repeal the damned O-care, already!
Dear Tammy,
If an American wants to buy a short term health care
plan, and can afford to do so, why should the government
stand in his way?
I know, I know, I’m not thinking like a liberal!!!
yours:
“More democrat hell raising just before an election to get their extreme base fired up.
They are as predictible as the sun and moon.”
mine:
True.
However, the more the D-commie/nazi party bosses incite and organize violence and the more they disrupt the proper functions of our government and society, the more NORMAL Americans they TURN OFF from voting D...........and some of them will even vote for normal, decent candidates now, not D-commie-Nazi puppets.
Yes, the party bosses have got their 3 percent commie-nazi “base” fired up.
And, they’ve driven away another 10 or 15 percent of the voters ...
WHO IS THE MAJORITY LEADER AND WHY WOULD HE EVEN GIVE BRINGING THIS SUBJECT TO THE FLOOR FOR DEBATE, LESS THAN A MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION?
They'll really wish it had passed after they get that second rectum torn in 'em.
I am just saying...
This is the one issue, which in my opinion the GOP has lots, and lots, and lots of people, very not on their side.
Be careful GOP.
Be very careful.
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