block grants that increase at CPI rather than healthcare CPI
I DON’T WANT IT “FIXED” I WANT IT REPEALED!!!!!!!!!
EVERY DAMN WORD OF IT
You have just discovered the Obamacare Poison Pill. Probably the biggest but with at least a few little brothers and sisters.
I thought those medicaid funds from the feds were scheduled to phase out over time.
This was one of the arguments for states not to “opt in”. Even though it meant getting flush w/cash up front, they’d wind up having to pay the piper on their own later.
So even though it initially solved some state’s budget problems, they now had an extra ball and chain to drag around.
California wants $19.1 billion for 2016-2017 budget an increase of 8% over prior year. Didn’t they just ask for
$60 billion to fix the dam? The rest of the US can’t afford California.
Looks like we’ll never get to repeal Bush’s prescription drug plan.
Wait, Wait, Wait!!!
How come my ‘supposed’ increase in SS this year went to pay for the INCREASE of Medicare??? Therefore, I didn’t get a RAISE, Medicare did...
That's because the majority of your fellow senators were never serious about actually repealing it, Senator Paul. And they still aren't.
Why convolute the two - keep medicaid the same but eliminate ocare. How much you wanna bet that they want to link the two because the stats look better. Ocare by itself is clearly a disaster and can’t stand on its own merits.
It has to be repealed it before they can see what’s replacing it...
That was good enough for them all those years ago, why not employ the same tactic?
Maybe I can be of assistance?
HR 1
This bill is to repeal the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a 0bamacare).
Sponsors
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Father God, we thank you for all the bounty and blessing you’ve poured out on us this year. Now we humble ourselves once again and ask that You destroy this mighty scourge of obamacare. that you nullify the actions of these blind and arrogant politicians and clear the way for repeal of this abomination. that You remember You are just and merciful to those now ensnared by this devil’s web of “sick care.” that You help us to restore true health care run by doctors and their patients once again to this Your nation. Your will be done. In Jesus’ Name with thanksgiving. Amen.
STATES HAVING ACCEPTED EXPANSION: AK, HI, WA, OR, CA, NV, MT, AZ, CO, NM, ND, MN, IA, AR, LA*, IL, MI, IN, OH, KY, WV, PA, NY, NJ, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, DE, MD, plus DC
STATES REFUSING: ID, UT, WY, SD, NE, KS, OK, TX, MO, WI, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, NC, SC, VA, ME
*LA just started down this road in December, so there’s essentially zero impact for that state.
MEDICAID EXP. STATES WITH GOP DEFENDING A 2018 SENATE SEAT: AZ, CO, MS, NV
MEDICAID NON-EXP. STATES WITH DEM DEFENDING A SENATE SEAT: WI, FL, VA, ME*, MO
* independent defending
This argument sounds like a red herring... another invented way to not vote for repeal.
The GOP in Congress does not want the PPACA repealed, and, as I predicted, the only way repeal would EVER pass was if the GOP were certain of a Presidential veto.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me, built in part on a lifetime of work by my father. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
Free stuff is hard to take away. Medicaid is the poison pill the Marxist left dropped in Obamacare. It’s pure evil. And the GOP governors who expanded Medicaid are idiot RINOs.
Obamacare DENIES healthcare to millions of people.
Keeping Obamacare stills DENIES care to millions.
REPEAL
Obamacare DENIES healthcare to millions of people.
Keeping Obamacare stills DENIES care to millions.
REPEAL
One is not contingent on the other. Claiming it is is a ruse.
Repeal. Period.
Republicans want to replace Obama’s unconstitutional, big-government law with their own unconstitutional, big-government law.
They want to out-Santa the Democrats.