Posted on 03/21/2017 4:52:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday afternoon that he expects House Speaker Paul Ryan will be forced to pull the American Health Care Act (AHCA) before a scheduled Thursday vote because Ryan will not get the votes to pass the legislation. The AHCA has been dubbed “Obamacare Lite” by Paul — a leading conservative critic of the plan — and by other conservatives as “RyanCare,” “RINO-Care,” and “Obamacare 2.0,” since the bill does not actually fully repeal Obamacare and keeps many of the main structures that the now-former President Barack Obama installed in the healthcare system. It has come under intense scrutiny from both sides of the Republican Party — moderates and conservatives are lining up against the bill — and Ryan, despite publicly projecting confidence, cannot find the necessary 216 votes to pass the legislation.
Paul, one of the leading senators out of more than a dozen Republicans in the upper chamber criticizing the bill there, told Breitbart News in this exclusive interview he believes there are at least 35 House Republicans ready to vote against the bill in its current form. And he predicted that, unless some major changes come to the legislation between now and the scheduled vote on Thursday, Ryan will need to withdraw the bill and Republicans will have to start from scratch with a new bill and a new strategy on Obamacare.
Paul said in the in-person interview at his U.S. Senate office in the Russell Senate Office Building:
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It is supposed to be REPEAL, not "repeal and replace". This sales pitch jive they are giving you that we can't just repeal Obamacare, but also have to replace it at the same time or millions of Americans will lose their coverage is B.S..
What really would happen with just a straight repeal of Obamacare is that millions of ILLEGALS will lose it.
Rand Paul scares me on defense matters about as much as McCain does (and for opposite reasons)
but on domestic and fiscal matters Paul is often RIght On
we do NOT want “replacement” we want REPEAL!
the fed govt has NO business trying to push into personal health care
and we have no business paying taxes for such unconstitutional excesses that, given the size of the fed govt and its remoteness, are bound to FAIL anywAY
Repeal in one frestnding bill.
Shove it to 0 and Pelosi.
freestanding
Thanks Paul Ryan! This is on YOUR HEAD!!! You knew damed well conservatives couldn’t vote for this crap, and you thought you could shove it down their throats (or better yet), get a fail for Trump. I hope to hell you get booted from the Speaker’s perch IMMEDIATELY!
I would like to see an article from 2009 that mentions “replace”.
Last year, Rand Paul was one of the wise guys predicting that Trump was imploding every other week.
The repeal will pass.
Republicans love to intervene and help out the democrats. The Ryan bill will absorb all the guilt and stupidity the democrats have accrued regarding health care and present democrats with clean white robes.
If memory serves, at least four prior bills were passed by the GOP and sent to Obama. Why can't one of those be dusted off and presented to President Trump for signature?
Could it be that House Republicans didn't mean it in any of those previous bills?
Probably, but should it?
Sounds good, Trump is one step closer to fulfilling another campaign promise: repeal and replace!
“and we have no business paying taxes for such unconstitutional”
This bill repeals the taxes and the mandate. You can opt out of the whole thing and not pay a dime.
And it’s not an oversight.
Ryan KNOWS that illegals will still get covered because they decided to keep it in!
I’ve read several articles about that today.
Ryan HATES Social Media and online news as much as any leftist.
And I hate him as much as any leftist.
I blame the HOR fake conservatives who voted him Speaker a second time. What possible motivation could they have had except that they don't want to be held accountable for their campaign promises? He's their firewall.
Ditto. More so, because he's a snake who betrays us at every opportunity.
To: Fantasywriter
Did you know that Trump met yesterday with Rahm Emanuel’s brother, who masterminded Obamacare. The purpose was to obtain his advice on revisions. Doesn’t that concern you?
23 posted on 3/21/2017, 8:02:13 PM by Praxeologue
Not according to a Freedom Caucus member who was just on Mark Levin's show. He said this DOES NOT do away with the individual mandate.
Repeal and DON'T replace!
.... It's a sly trick Libs always use when negotiating with Republicans and Democrats and RINO's know this. That is why they are trying to maintain as much of it's structure as possible.
..... REPUBLICANS .... WAKE UP!!!!
So, the question remains. If a repeal bill could get through the Senate a year ago, why can’t you it now. That’s the question that needs to be asked.
Pass the repeal and then put a well crafted bill that returns coverage to those who have it, plus tort reform and across state line competition to lower costs. Dare the senate red state democrats up in 2018 to vote against it.
sounds nice but aren’t our income taxes etc used to pay for this? its very expensive
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