The House leadership is deeply saddened at this turn of events!
Posted on 05/02/2017 7:23:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Where’s Tom (The Hammer) Delay when you really need him?
Can you say, “RINOs” ?
Should have known RINO Barbara Comstock was on there. Pathetic.
Probably couldn't be done by EO.But regardless of how it's done it would be fun to watch those opposed squirm.
Legislation should be proposed (perhaps authored by the White House itself) requiring all elected to Federal office,and retires from such offices,be required to have ObamaCare instead of their current plan.
Now thats an executive order I’d like to see, if its possible to do it....
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
Probably couldn’t be done by EO.But regardless of how it’s done it would be fun to watch those opposed squirm.
Agree. Their pampered above it all, not for me has to change
You are 100% correct. Spot on. We have met the enemy and he is us.
How come we can’t scare these IDIOTS by threatening them with a PRIMARY CHALLENGE if they don’t pass the repeal & border Wall Funding??!!!!
Pathetic.
Next “We can’t get tax reform done before 2019”.
Spit.
The House leadership is deeply saddened at this turn of events!
Let the damn thing collapse.
Don’t do a damn thing until the Democrats come begging to do something.
Don’t give the insurance companies another dime out of the budget.
But they won’t . . . They earn the title of Party of Stupid every day and twice on Sunday.
“GOP on verge of losing health care vote.” I think they are on the verge of losing one heck of a lot more than that....
Are we supposed to be for this one or against it?
Which way is the wind blowing?
Anyone on this thread care what's in it?
Rep. Tom Massie (R. -KY)is a no vote. I’m confident that he doesn’t support the repeal vote because it will never lead to a “fixed” health care bill, ever.... He isn’t the sort to look for self-enrichment, and my fear is that the GOP-e will finally cause him to decide he has had enough, and I will lose a great U.S. Rep.
Why would they do that? Republicans now own healthcare. Obamacare collapses then the Democrats will run on the claim that the Republicans let it go under and did nothing to save it for all those people who needed the coverage. If Trumpcare is passed then the Democrats will run on all the promises Trump and his cabinet made and which didn't come to pass. This is a no-brainer for the Democrats. All they will do is sit back, pop popcorn, and watch.
NY, NJ and the sick Ill. seem to be the nexus of the trouble....
I knew that they were never going to repeal Obamacre.
Now they don’t even want to rearrange and repair it.
You’d think some Democrats would vote for it so they could get it renamed and off their necks.
We’re supposed to pass it first then see what’s in it.
The theme of these seems to be:
1) Ryan is a backstabbing traitor
and
2)Trump is either playing 3-D Chess , or being rolled.
(can he be both at the same time?)
The actual bill doesn't matter.
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