Meadows says Obamacare repeal is alive, Trump will deliver

Washington Examiner ^ | 26 March 2017 9:26 AM | Joseph Lawler

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House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows on Sunday shrugged off taunts from President Trump, saying that health care reform was still alive and that congressional Republicans would aim to pass legislation for Trump to sign. Friday's failure on healthcare legislation, the North Carolina Republican said, does not mean that the effort to replace Obamacare is dead. "To put a stake in it today would not be accurate," the North Carolina Repubican said on ABC's This Week, explaining that the intra-party conversations in the past two days have been about regrouping on healthcare. He said that it will be the responsibility of

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ding ding ding Round 3

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, you heard it right there from Jeanine Pirro. Breitbart is suggesting that you're one of the people that people are looking to to replace Speaker Ryan. Does he have your support? MEADOWS: Listen, this is not me. And I can tell you there is no conversations going on right now with regards to replacing the speaker. "

(the author pulls his article from abc news 'This Week') transcript:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-26-17-sen-chuck-schumer-rep/story?id=46372022

[Red Steel]

Yeah keep working on it. And not having rabbit ears is good.

[teletech]

Repeal the Damon thing. You wrote a full repeal Bill in 2015 so you have one gathering dust. Blow the dust off and get Eric done!

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The Dems are laughing now about this, but guess what? They still own Obamacare. As it falls apart, they are still on the hook to be blamed and perhaps a year from now we’ll get a better bill. I’m willing to wait rather than a half baked attempt that doesn’t solve the problem.

[teletech]

Damon=damn

[chris37]

Good.

It’s up to you, congress, to deliver. Everything. It all starts with you.

Your party is on line. You have precious little time to finally do something.

Deliver or done.

That is all.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The RINOs don’t want it repealed, they want to fiddle with it, endlessly.

[lee martell]

Yeah, well, seeing is usually believing.
I’m still waiting.

[Alberta's Child]

I predict that there will be a lot of bipartisan pressure to repeal Obamacare after insurance carriers starting sending out their 2018 renewals — with massive increases in premiums — in October/November of this year.

[tennmountainman]

HFC will never go for a bill that does not have full repeal.
The GOP do not have the votes for a full repeal.
So, they are back at a Mexican standoff.

Best to move on. And Trump has already said he is moving on.

[plain talk]

Actually that would indeed be a surprise turn of events if they all worked behind the scenes without all the public back-and-forth ... and then suddenly they sign a repeal/replace bill. That would be cool.

Personally I would prefer a pure repeal bill but I just don’t see that happening from a political standpoint.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Yep, it’s obvious to me that the pressure cooker needs to percolate a little more on this issue.

[Alberta's Child]

They're going to overhaul it -- not piddle around with it like this silly AHCA did -- even in ways we may not like it.

Go back and look at Trump's seven-point health care plan that he developed for his campaign in 2016. The AHCA was a sh!tty, pathetic mockery of it. I assume Trump himself is even embarrassed at his support for the AHCA, since the plan from his 2016 campaign has been removed from his website.

[teletech]

Then don’t do anything and let it die on its own.

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[I predict that there will be a lot of bipartisan pressure to repeal Obamacare after insurance carriers starting sending out their 2018 renewals — with massive increases in premiums — in October/November of this year.]

Either that or the screams for single payer will be deafening. That will be the Dems solution to it all.

[guido911]

FU Meadows and whatever is left of your cuck-os.

[af_vet_1981]

The Dems are laughing now about this, but guess what? They still own Obamacare. As it falls apart, they are still on the hook to be blamed and perhaps a year from now we’ll get a better bill.

Wishful thinking; now that Republicans hold both houses of Congress and the Presidency, Republicans are responsible for everything that goes wrong, even preexisting conditions like Obamacare. Doing nothing is an argument for electing Democrats. The MSM will ensure that the vast majority of the public gets this message and that the Republicans are against President Trump's plan.

[kvanbrunt2]

Repeal the Damon thing. You wrote a full repeal Bill in 2015 so you have one gathering dust. Blow the dust off and get Eric done!>>>. it has been in committee since march 6th.

[Alberta's Child]

HFC will never go for a bill that does not have full repeal.

Yes, they will.

Obamacare is effectively repealed when the mandates disappear. The HFC was dead-set against the Ryan bill not because it wasn't a "full repeal," but because it didn't do anything to reduce insurance premiums in the near term. You may not like the Freedom Caucus, but they recognized that it would be a political disaster for the GOP Congress and President Trump to come up with an "American Health Care Reform Act" in the spring of 2017 -- only to have catastrophic increases in insurance premiums showing up again in the fall of 2017 when the 2018 renewals showed up in mailboxes all over the country.

[ForYourChildren]

Paul Ryan
“Better Way to Fix Health Care”
https://abetterway.speaker.gov/_assets/pdf/ABetterWay-HealthCare-Snapshot.pdf
5th sentence says,
“Obamacare must be fully repealed ..”