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Rep. .. Massie: GOP Care ..'stinking pile of garbage' ..by the 'insurance lobby,' ..'will fail'
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/07/2017 | PHILIP WEGMANN

Posted on 03/07/2017 7:06:17 PM PST by ForYourChildren

Thomas Massie does not mince words. For more than six years, Republicans have promised to repeal Obamacare and after reviewing the long-awaited replacement package for a few hours, the Kentucky libertarian wasn't impressed. Massie thinks "it's a stinking pile of garbage."

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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamacare; rinocare
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To: txhurl
Good post. I agree with you.

I almost get a sense that Trump is now functioning like the referee in a contest between two teams -- the House and Senate -- to see who can come up with a better piece of legislation.

41 posted on 03/07/2017 8:36:07 PM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: ForYourChildren

The elites still believe that the Swamp is in charge of writing big legislation, instead of the people.


42 posted on 03/07/2017 8:37:03 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: dowcaet

I would like a Republican to explain to me exactly how this will lower costs. For any people buying health care, that is.

UNLESS THE COST SIDE IS ADDRESSED THIS IS EVEN WORSE GARBAGE THAN OBAMACARE.

Republicans, still in the pockets of the medical-industrial complex. Very nice.


43 posted on 03/07/2017 8:37:29 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Ping


44 posted on 03/07/2017 8:50:06 PM PST by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: dowcaet
The current bill won’t pass. Ryan and his weasel globalist buddies think they can ram this one through. No, it will be DOA if put to a full house vote today. Back to the drawing board folks.

We elect record numbers of GOP reps, and we have to look to the DEMS to help us prevent this train wreck. Unbelievable.

45 posted on 03/07/2017 8:51:03 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

It doesn’t even matter if Ryan can ram a bill like this through the House. Rand Paul will never let it see the light of day in the Senate.


46 posted on 03/07/2017 8:56:18 PM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: txhurl

How can this comment be construed as encouraging vigorous debate?

“I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!”

That sounds more like shutting down debate by pressuring Paul to support RINOcare.


47 posted on 03/07/2017 9:00:42 PM PST by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: Alberta's Child

Not Referee but patient and wise Grandfather.

Here’s a guy that’s lived and breathed with the biggest men in NYC for 50 years. Netanyahu is a 35yr family friend.

A better way to view his handling of this is to grow the actual players in Congress, like a Grandfather might do with his youths, to slap them back to business after they come home drunk at 4am after un-reined in wilding.

Notice how patient and congratulatory he is of those who are actually working to fix things. The brats get slapped down, but not permanently shunned, just corrected, and guided, as parents do. The productive ones get lavish support and praise.

He’s really just managing human nature to The People’s benefit. The DC punks will, over time, respond to the postive discipline. The evil ones will be dispatched.


48 posted on 03/07/2017 9:06:52 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Bratch

How is it that the Dems could completely repeal and replace 60+ years of health-care policy in one fell swoop, and yet we need three separate phases to repeal and replace just SIX years of ObamaCare?

Hate to say it, but they are way better at this stuff than we are apparently.


49 posted on 03/07/2017 9:08:14 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: ForYourChildren

Okay Massie where is your plan? Always a complainer and never a leader.


50 posted on 03/07/2017 9:12:20 PM PST by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: MyDogAteMyBallot

DJT actually said today that this was a negotiation. There’s threads on it.


51 posted on 03/07/2017 9:16:30 PM PST by txhurl
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To: MyDogAteMyBallot

There is a HUGE outcry from Trump base, I don’t think Trump WILL IGNORE this!!! He is meeting with freedom Caucus tomorrow afternoon, we will see Trump is not one to ignore the people who voted for him!!! If you REALLY WANT to see him listen to the freedom Caucus EVERYONE needs to tweet him, Facebook him, and send a message in the White House website to HIM!!! THEN do the same to BANNON and Kellyann!!! I have done this if we flood him with the message he WILL LISTEN!!!


52 posted on 03/07/2017 9:23:08 PM PST by Kit cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Kit cat

No, girl, leave his executive peeps out of this. This is legislative, do not expect him to man-handle this like zero did.

Contact your reps and Senators.


53 posted on 03/07/2017 9:28:48 PM PST by txhurl
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To: ForYourChildren

Yes, that is just what it is.


54 posted on 03/07/2017 9:30:39 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Did we expect any better?


55 posted on 03/07/2017 9:30:52 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Kit cat

“There is a HUGE outcry from Trump base,..”

Ya.

Take a look at Breitbart. Everything there is slamming this RINOcare proposal. It surprised me.


56 posted on 03/07/2017 9:39:04 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

I’m extremely disappointed, but not the least bit surprised. Politicians are asses.


57 posted on 03/07/2017 9:39:12 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: kevao

The Dems had super-majorities in both the House and Senate.

The present makeup of the Senate doesn’t even guarantee a simple majority because of the contrary nature of many of the Republicans.

Big difference.


58 posted on 03/07/2017 9:43:47 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch
The present makeup of the Senate doesn’t even guarantee a simple majority because of the contrary nature of many of the Republicans.

Point taken. Yet, I cannot help thinking that Harry Reid would find a way....

59 posted on 03/07/2017 10:06:04 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: ForYourChildren

I don’t think we can trust what the Paul Ryan crowd is cooking up to ‘replace Obamacare’.


60 posted on 03/07/2017 10:24:51 PM PST by Spiridon
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