Posted on 03/16/2017 10:54:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The legislation that House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump embraced to repeal and replace Obamacare was already being dogged by criticism from deeply conservative members in the House. But now it faces an emerging challenge: more moderate Republicans distancing themselves from the bill after the Congressional Budget Office concluded it would result in 24 million more people being uninsured than under the Affordable Care Act.
Some senators are already suggesting this bill has little chance of passing in Congress’ upper chamber. But it may not get even there. An informal FiveThirtyEight count suggests two huge challenges for getting the AHCA through the House and avoiding what would be an embarrassing defeat for Republicans: spending seven years campaigning to end Obamacare and then not being able to get a bill through even one house of Congress when the party controls both houses and the presidency.
In the two days since the CBO report, two members from districts where Hillary Clinton outdid Trump last fall, Florida’s Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and and New Jersey’s Leonard Lance, have suggested they will be reluctant to back the current version of the legislation, the American Health Care Act. A third member from a liberal-leaning district, New York’s John Katko, said the CBO report left him with “serious questions that need to answered.”
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Burn baby burn.
My prediction: freedom caucus will force changes in the bill with Trump’s support
Mid-term elections are coming and I bet a bunch of RINO’s will be tossed out; twenty-two at least hopefully.
Exactly what President Trump is trying to do....
He said last night he will NOT have any Democrat support in anything he does and there will be some Republicans that will not support him on some of his ideas...
This has to be the worst roll-out in ages.
We don’t have to deal with liberal republicans do we? They aren’t allowed to vote, are they?
The Freedom Caucus installed Ryan as Speaker with a super-majority.
Dave Brat voted against in committee. If the Freedom Caucus hangs tough this turd dies in the House.
Better to pass nothing than to hang the Obamacare albatross around the necks of Republicans.
I picked up the phone and told Mr. Robot what he could go do.
Ryancare is every bit the monstrosity that Obamacare is.
What changes do you think could turn it around?
I mean that as a serious question, not a taunt.
Those 22 are the real representatives like Dave Brat, the RINOs are the people trying to preserve Obamacare by changing the name with RINOcare.
This article says the liberal Rs think the bill is too harsh on the poor.
Gag. They’re pushing for the bill to be more liberal.
I predict the same, there will have to be some accommodation or it dies and conservatives don’t want this to happen, they need repeal. The Ryno’s could care less, they have the Chamber of Crony Commerce’s agenda to promote.
Agree. I think this has been Trumps strategy all along. For those who say “yeah but he supported it” the answer is, “Art of the Deal”. You don’t put an offer out that you don’t support, otherwise certainly noone else will. You act like it’s your best and final offer, then you negotiate.
There’s also some psychology involved. You ask someone “what do you want” and the sky’s the limit. But when you ask “Which do you like best, Obamacare, the plan Ryan put forth, or what I have here behind Door #3” you have people thinking in constrained ways.
If not its DOA in the senate.
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