Posted on 03/25/2017 5:33:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
AHCA was pulled from the floor yet again this afternoon, and it now is probable that Obamacare will be the law of the land for years to come. This is an utter disaster for U.S. health care, not to mention individual liberty, and the responsibility rests squarely on shoulders of a small cadre of political opportunists with the effrontery to call themselves the “House Freedom Caucus.”
These people held out for the impossible — full repeal of Obamacare in one fell swoop — and have thus destroyed the only realistic opportunity their party will have in the near future to eradicate the law’s individual and employer mandates, enact entitlement reform, expand HSAs, defund Planned Parenthood, halt the metastasis of Medicaid, and cut its myriad taxes.
Moreover, they have made a mockery of their group’s name by perpetuating the increasingly oppressive and powerful administrative state, leaving their constituents to the tender mercies of Beltway bureaucrats whose contempt for the taxpayers who support them is exceeded only by the breathtaking incompetence with which they mismanage everything they touch.
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Whatever.
Let me know when you find your perfect Rep.
Yup, mind boggling.
His EO set the stage, for defunding of certain agencies/departments, once the repeal law is passed.
It will still be there, for when that does happen.
No joke, a lot of these congressmen would be a lot better if they sat in their office and played Solitaire for their entire term. Trading one garbage healthcare plan for another is not progress. And this one would’ve had the endorsing signatures of Republicans all over it. No thanks. The media was drooling all over the thought of this passing so they could pound the drum of hypocrisy for basically ever.
This is basically Romney’s RINOCare on a national scale. No thanks.
Defunding **BY** certain agencies.
Defunding of a few agencies would be nice, though ;-)
Exactly. Any law that is passed in phases is doomed to fail. There is no guarantee that the subsequent phases will ever pass (Reagan amnesty followed by border security. Yeah, right.)
Repeal. DON’T REPLACE.
If there are problems with current insurance laws, then fix them. But DO NOT REPLACE 0vomitcare.
A full repeal of Obamacare is NOT impossible. Bills (note the plural) have passed both the house and senate. It was only stopped by Obama’s veto. We did it before and we can do it again.
full repeal is the only viable option.
just pass the same bill obozo vetoed in 2015
I have even thought that we might be better served if Congress was chosen by district lottery!
Congratulations you are now a Congresscritters for the next two years!
It is unbelievable that there are actually Freepers claiming the Freedom Caucus are the problem and were working against Trump. They are angry that Rynocare did not pass.
I heard this Rynocare bill still contained the mandates, took money/benefits from vets, and gave money to illegal aliens.
The focus is not FREE MARKET. Nor is the focus on who is paying for the costs. Rather the focus on Rynocare is llike Obamacare—who gets what benefits!
And this was supposed to be a GOP bill? This is not your grandfather’s GOP for sure :(
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." ~ Mark Twain
Sorry, I agree with the Freedom Caucus....Ryan care is just Obamacare light. Get government out of health care! Get rid of this “entitlement” while you can!
"Let?" Whose permission do they require? Time's a-wasting, they've only had eight years. It's fine and dandy to stand on principle and demand it all, sure, all conservatives support such a thing, in principle. But, then comes the reality of actually getting any of it passed.
So, please, by all means: Freedom Caucus, where's your bill that meets these excellent and well-grounded conservative demands, and how do you propose to get it to Trump's desk for signing? He surely will sign such a bill, if you can pull this off, you'll be heroes. Yay, Freedom Caucus, go go go!
It's put up or shut up time, quite honestly.
Repeal.
So, his EO doesn’t go into effect until a repeal law is passed? I was wondering if that was the case while reading it.
You seem optimistic that it will be repealed. I wish I shared your optimism. I don’t think Democrats will be going to him asking for help as Trump seemed to be suggesting yesterday. And there’s no way Dems will accept full repeal; they will be seeking nothing less than a full single-payer system. Short of that, I think they will roll the dice, let it collapse and try to tie it around Trump’s neck in 2018.
For that matter, i don’t think Trump supports full repeal without replace. I doubt the matter will be addressed again at least until after the mid-term elections.
Yep, since the Kr@p 0dontCare was written with all of that "as the administrator determines" clauses in there, there is plenty for the Trump Administration to do.
Plus, as others have pointed out, Waivers can be issued promiscuously.
I can sense that it’s Katy bar the door time for the FC, they’re just chomping at the literal bit to submit a bill proposing just that.
Funny thing, though, I don’t see it anywhere. Why is that?
The EO is still in place to have the IRS leave off with the penalties?
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