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To: goldstategop
In 2018, the GOP can go to the voters, give us a Senate supermajority to finish the job.

If the GOP passes a RyanCare bill in 2016 that still keeps most of ObamaCare's most destructive provisions in place (and by this I mean the provisions that have driven medical insurance premiums up through the roof), then there isn't a chance in hell they're going to get 60 Senators in office in 2018. They'll be lucky to keep the 52 they have.

I'm OK with the incremental repeal as long as the mandates disappear (it looks like they almost certainly will) and eliminate the regulatory burdens that make insurance so expensive as to be worthless to most people anyway.

62 posted on 03/07/2017 8:49:16 PM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Alberta's Child

The bill unveiled today is only one of three phases.

First phase is tinkering with the financial mechanisms to make Obamacare more manageable. Second phases is HHS issues regulations that would reduce costs and begin a transition period to free market health care. Third phase is complete repeal of Obamacare.

First two phases can be done through reconciliation and implementing regulations.

Third phase will have to wait until you get that supermajority and as you pointed out, no guarantee it will happen.

Politics is the art of the possible.


76 posted on 03/07/2017 9:00:07 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Alberta's Child

How did we get a bill to repeal Obamacare multiple times that Obama vetoed?


114 posted on 03/07/2017 9:22:58 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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