Posted on 03/24/2017 6:56:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27
Gabriel Sherman writes that White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon (or, for those concerned with SEO, Steve Bannon) has privately expressed concern that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) betrays the populist voters who put Donald Trump in the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
President Trump knows that RyanCare won’t pass in the H of R, that’s why he said to pass something by Friday or he walks. I believe Trump has a replacement ready to be publicly released once RyanCare goes down in flames.
“Bannon said that he’s unhappy with the Ryan bill because it “doesn’t drive down costs” and was “written by the insurance industry.” While the bill strips away many of Obamacare’s provisions, it does not go as far as Bannon would wish to “deconstruct the administrative state” in the realm of health care.”
Bannon is right. A free market approach is needed to reduce costs of health care and reduce the federal bureaucracy. Not an approach drafted by Ryan’s insurance lobby buddies.
WOW...
Won't that take a large chunk of the economy down with it?
“Why would Bannon lead Trump down the wrong path?”
If Bannon is against this bill, and if Trump were listening to Bannon, then Bannon would be leading Trump down the right path.
Instead, it sounds as though Trump if listening to Ryan and to “economic adviser Gary Cohn” (see HarleyLady’s post above).
SO agree with you!!!
I have always wondered if Mccain or Graham were on this site.
What I find missing in the current debate on RyanCare and the debate in 2009 on ObamaCare is a simple question.
Who are the people who actually wrote this legislation?
For certain we know our elected Representatives and Senators did not write any of the words.
We also know for certain that healthcare consumers (aka ‘we the people’) did not write any of the words.
So who wrote the words?
Did the Health Insurance Industry write RyanCare or ObamaCare?
Or was it the AMA, pharma, hospitals, trial lawyers, government bureaucrats?
So Trump pushing, arm twisting, visiting Capital Hill, inviting hard liners to the WH to change their minds and sending a tweet this am targeting the Freedom Caucus to get on board is 3D chess?
Even Spock would say that’s illogical.
I have the same ideas of what Jim had, but wanted to read what others were saying, so didn't comment farther on what was being said by the people here...
President Trump yesterday just hung this RyanCare bill right around Ryan's neck, and it will take him down...
We all that watched President Trump on the campaign trail say time and again, you can negotiate something, but then comes the time you get up and walk away...and this is what President Trump is doing...thank goodness!!!
“””We bitched because industry experts weren’t involved in writing O’Care”””
Do you have any sources for who actually wrote ObamaCare? I have never seen any names of the people who wrote the 2,700 pages of garbage.
LS I trust Trump with my whole heart and soul, what I don’t trust is phase 3 EVER seeing the light of day!! How much longer are Americans expected to deal with these high premiums and deductibles??? I DO NOT trust RYAN in ANY way shape or form this guy has been and will ALWAYS be a NEVER TRUMPER!!! He IS a globalist through and through he IS DAMNED DETERMINED to do everything in his power to make sure Trump is a ONE TERM POTUS!!! There is NOTHING Trump can do to guarantee us phase 3 NOTHING!!! Trump does NOT make legislation LYIN RYAN and his cohorts on K-street and Chamber of Commerce make legislation they HATE Trump and ALWAYS will work AGAINST anything he wants!!!!
Agreed. Ryan is the big loser. He should have posted a clean repeal bill and let the committees write a proper new bill. Instead he let the lobbyists write a bill. -
Ryan loses, We all lose for now. Replace Ryan with a winner.
How? Do you think there are the votes in the House to elect someone else? If so, who?
Our fellow Freeper, LS, is reporting on his twitter feed that he hears that they have the votes:
https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart
I am surprised that people here seem to be on board with this bill also!!! They want Trump to win under any circumstances I don’t think they realize this is REALLY BAD for Trump, he CAN NOT have this bill wrapped around his neck!!!
sheesh...I am dumbstruck
I hope I don’t have a I told Ya so...when Ryan refuses to help out america
Well crap, that’ll teach me about scrolling too fast thru the posts!
LOL
Jim Jordan would be a GREAT house speaker!!!
Scrap Paul Ryan, quick, fast and in a hurry-
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