“In addition you should be circumspect about casting aspersions especially if you are not well informed.”
Thank you Mr Schumer for letting me know what I should or should not be doing.
From REDSTATE - at times this site is a "bit" over the top when it comes to treating the Donald fairly Now, a replica bill has sat unaddressed in committee since March 8th and there’s a path to getting it to a floor vote quickly.
Since the AHCA was presented and recognized for the dud it was, there has been an incredulity that after seven years of doggedly campaigning against Obamacare, Republicans weren’t unified and ready with a bill to repeal it.
So, now what? That’s what many in the Republican caucus and outside interest groups are asking following Friday’s events.
Many have astutely pointed out that Congress passed a repeal bill in 2015, so why aren’t they simply doing the same now?
Alas, unknown to many, a replica of the 2015 bill was introduced by Rep. Jim Jordan on March 8th, just two days after the disastrous AHCA. The bill Rep. Jordan introduced earlier this month is a replica of the 2015 bill that passed in the House and Senate less than two years ago.
The bill has been languishing in committee ever since. However, there is one way it could move to consideration on the floor should an ambitious representative choose to take it on.
After a bill has been in committee for a certain period of time, a discharge petition can be circulated, which is privileged, to bring a bill out of committee and to the floor.
But it must have a majority of the House.
Repeal is the one thing a majority ostensibly agree upon.
Conservatives and the House Freedom Caucus took early blame for the AHCA’s passage or failure, even though moderates and the Tuesday Group became august denouncers of the bill as negotiations progressed. However, the HFC was asking for nothing less than what had passed in 2015.
Conservatives expect nothing less than congressional Republicans to live up to their promises, Jason Pye of FreedomWorks told RedState.
They passed this bill in the 114th Congress.
Why can’t they do it now? This is the one aspect of this we all agree on, and it’s certainly a better option than the half-baked bill that leadership rolled out that didn’t really repeal ObamaCare.”
But what about after repeal, one might ask. [H.R. 1436] gives us two years to work on a replacement that is grounded in real patient-centered, free market principles, Pye stated.
What a sensible and prudent, but apparently novel, idea.
A clean repeal is what Republicans have been promising the American people for seven years. A clean repeal bill is sitting in committee, ready to go through the same process it breezed through in 2015 but in which the AHCA failed. As has been said before here, should Republicans fail to adequately reduce the cost of health care and increase access by repealing and replacing to a degree Obamacare, they will be seen as the biggest scammers in American politics for a generation.