Posted on 02/27/2017 7:27:20 AM PST by GIdget2004
Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act is to set a bill in motion and gamble that fellow GOP lawmakers won't dare to block it.
Party leaders are poised to act on the strategy as early as this week, after it has become obvious they can't craft a proposal that will carry an easy majority in either chamber. Lawmakers return to Washington Monday after a week of raucous town halls in their districts that amplified pressure on Republicans to forge ahead with their health-care plans.
Republican leaders pursuing the "now or never" approach see it as their best chance to break through irreconcilable demands by Republican centrists and conservatives over issues ranging from tax credits to the future of Medicaid.
The new strategy means the health-care law could be overhauled in three precarious steps--reflecting the difficulties of concurrently repealing and replacing the law, as President Donald Trump had sought.
Republicans can afford to lose no more than two GOP votes in the Senate and 22 in the House, assuming they get no support from Democrats. That means any GOP faction could torpedo the repeal effort by withholding its support--and members of each have threatened as much.
Advocates of the strategy hope that knife's-edge math will be an asset rather than a liability. They are betting different groups of Republican lawmakers can be pacified with a handful of concessions, then will swallow hard and vote for a longstanding repeal pledge, first in the House, then in the Senate.
"You're a Republican, you've been running to repeal Obamacare, they put a repeal bill in front of you... Are you going to be the Republican senator who prevents Obamacare repeal from being sent to a Republican president who is willing to sign it?"
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And almost every one of the lying bastards has promised to “repeal Obamacare”. How many repeal bills were voted on or proposed with widespread Republican support when Obama was in office...?
Window dressing, every single time.
The devil will be in the details of said bill. While they appear to doing the right thing, I don’t trust Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
What cowards. What does the word “pledge” mean to these people?
“You’re a Republican, you’ve been running to repeal Obamacare, they put a repeal bill in front of you... Are you going to be the Republican senator who prevents Obamacare repeal from being sent to a Republican president who is willing to sign it?”
They only need 2 in the Senate to stop repeal. This is plan is DOA and the GOPe know it. We are being played. Again. The exempt beltway GOPe loves kenyancare too much to ever really repeal it.
The devil will be in the details of said bill. While they appear to doing the right thing, I don’t trust Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
Me either. They will design something to fail and then claim they tried. The only thing transparent in DC is how much the GOPe and their big donors love socialized medicine.
Let’s find out who they are.
And almost every one of the lying bastards has promised to “repeal Obamacare”. How many repeal bills were voted on or proposed with widespread Republican support when Obama was in office...?
Let ‘em explain why they were for it before they were against it.
Something definitely has to be done. Probably the major reason we are looking at a $20T deficit is because we started borrowing from ourselves 70 years ago.
The current drain on social security and medicare to fill the blanks financially for the losses lied about from the libs healthcare act has greatly increased the loss of these funds to the point where they will go insolvent shortly and requiring adjustments that would have been started in 2022 are now pushed forward to late this year. And again, these funds were earmarked for the people that earned and donated it for their purposes and so the feds could invest it and make money they took from the same possibility of the ones that earned it. Not for the people who didn’t do what they should have done or are illegally in the country and either see a free trip or can’t help themselves and would have been eligible for the funds anyway if they had been in here legally.
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Pretty much.
After the congress fails Trump will present a negotiated bill and demand it’s passage.
Unfortunately Trump has most sway among House conservatives so his bill will likely cater to Senate RINOs.
Still, he’s a good negotiator so it may not be so bad.
Why not use the one that they used when they knew it would be vetoed or voted down in the Senate? (No need to answer. This is rhetorical.)
There have been so many rumors. Most probably aren’t true, or only get at part of the truth. I’m willing to wait to see what happens before I start getting too worked up.
Why did you fall for it?
Submit the exact bills Republicans submitted to 0bama!!!
Sit down with the insurance people and work it out. This is not that big a problem. Only the politicians think it is and are afraid to move ahead.
Not too bad of an idea.
I would do my part and call any morons opposed to it.
That’s exactly what’s happening as we speak.
It may take a veto by Trump of spending bills to force them to pass the repeal.
You bring up a good point- Odumbass pushed this through as pResident, why doesn’t Trump just take the reins and push a repeal bill through.
The languages could be simple,..
Cite the massive costs ($400,000 per person so far) the incomprehensible 3000 page law and 30,000 page additional regulations, and the millions who LOST their doctor and/or insurance after they were promised they could keep them.
It could probably fit on one page.
Trump really needs to get a new party started by 2020.
The GOP truly is irredeemable.
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