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Watch live: House Republicans confident new health care bill will pass (LIVE THREAD)
CBS News ^ | 05/04/2017 | Rebecca Shabad

Posted on 05/04/2017 9:48:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

House GOP leaders are expressing confidence that the Republican-sponsored American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace Obamacare will pass Thursday afternoon, though it will face an uncertain path in the Senate.

"This will pass," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, told reporters as he left a closed-door meeting with the House Republican Conference. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, also seemed confident that the bill would pass.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; ahca; healthcare; notrepeal; obamacare2; repealandreplace; rinocare; romneyagenda; romneycare; ryancare; second100days; speakerryan; theexemptdecide; trumpcare
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To: ichabod1

What is it he is getting exactly?

He exchanged a terrible budget for a terrible healthcare bill?

The saga of the Taj Mahal is making more and more sense.


61 posted on 05/04/2017 10:47:29 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Responsibility2nd; sickoflibs

What’s actually in the latest House GOP health care bill?

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, a development that could bring Republicans one step closer to fulfilling one of President Trump’s campaign promises and achieving a policy goal they’ve sought for years.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, projected confidence Wednesday after GOP leaders announced Thursday’s vote. “It’ll pass,” he said. “It’s a good bill.”

But what’s in it?

The plan is largely similar to the bill crafted by GOP leaders earlier this year that was pulled from the House floor in March due to insufficient support. Lawmakers have made a few crucial changes, however, that have won support from some members who didn’t back the earlier legislation.

Here’s a brief rundown of what’s in the House GOP health care bill, and how it could affect you.

more....

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-the-latest-house-gop-health-care-bill/


62 posted on 05/04/2017 10:47:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t know who I trust less, Nancy Pelosi or Paul Ryan. They both turn my stomach.


63 posted on 05/04/2017 10:49:30 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: faithhopecharity

Sometimes it’s just as well to go ahead and realize that a lost cause is truly lost...otherwise you just become an oddity, like those Japanese who kept on fighting from caves on islands many years after the war ended.

Market-based health care is gone forever. We all suffer, except our lovely establishment of course, but there will never again be a free market there, it was killed by many, many cuts.

We will, after all these throes, have single payer, government run healthcare in pretty short order. It’s inevitable and very near. It may not be “right” but it’s done now and it won’t change until such time as the country itself no longer exists.


64 posted on 05/04/2017 10:49:55 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: marstegreg

Quit letting the left define your language. It is not HEALTHCARE. It is health insurance. There is a huge difference.


65 posted on 05/04/2017 10:50:07 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Responsibility2nd
What's actually in the latest House GOP health care bill?

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, a development that could bring Republicans one step closer to fulfilling one of President Trump's campaign promises and achieving a policy goal they've sought for years.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, projected confidence Wednesday after GOP leaders announced Thursday's vote. "It'll pass," he said. "It's a good bill."

But what's in it?

The plan is largely similar to the bill crafted by GOP leaders earlier this year that was pulled from the House floor in March due to insufficient support. Lawmakers have made a few crucial changes, however, that have won support from some members who didn't back the earlier legislation.

Here's a brief rundown of what's in the House GOP health care bill, and how it could affect you.

 

 

Click the link for more details on the above bullet points.

66 posted on 05/04/2017 10:53:24 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: sheana

Quit letting the left define your language. It is not HEALTHCARE. It is health insurance. There is a huge difference.
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Sorry. Thanks for correcting me and yes, the left have blurred the lines so much that even I didn’t realize I was doing it! But, in my defense, Health insurance and Healthcare have been such huge winners in Obamacare that it is hard sometimes to think of them as independent of each other.


67 posted on 05/04/2017 11:02:58 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Responsibility2nd

How will this affect the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) for current and retired federal and postal workers?


68 posted on 05/04/2017 11:06:04 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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To: marstegreg

It’s not just you. All over tv its healthcare healthcare healthcare. The left’s language has now permeated everywhere. It’s just one of the things that bugs me. lol


69 posted on 05/04/2017 11:08:10 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

Question...

Up now is the “exemption for congress from health bill”.

At the moment, 233 Republicans are voting yes, and 188 RATS are voting no.
Does a “yes” vote mean they ARE exempting themselves, or NOT exempting themselves?


70 posted on 05/04/2017 11:10:07 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Responsibility2nd; Ted Grant
RE:”The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, a development that could bring Republicans one step closer to fulfilling one of President Trump’s campaign promises and achieving a policy goal they’ve sought for years.”

Well as tough as this one seems the Senate will be many times tougher. It will be a small step.

I see recent polls show a 50-50 % split on getting rid of the personal mandate.( it's phrased as keeping premiums lower which is it's purpose, not forcing us to buy something we cant use)

Typically its the opposite but this is what repeal politics do.

And ironically the personal mandate is a joke.
Removing it means nothing.
No one has to pay that.
But with 50-50 Republicans will get little credit for getting rid of it.

71 posted on 05/04/2017 11:10:10 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "Mexico will pay for the Wall! Mark my words")
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To: Soul of the South
The GOP has managed to convert a winning issue into a debacle by refusing to just repeal the legislation.

This seems to be the case with everything the GOP does. It's pathetic. Political parties have destroyed this nation. The irony is that there is really only a "uni-party" or ruling class.

72 posted on 05/04/2017 11:10:14 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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"Chad Pergram‏Verified account @ChadPergram · 30m30 minutes ago
Fleet of buses/vans now parked on Capitol plaza to prospectively bus GOPers to WH should health care bill pass"

Wow! Last time I remember that happening was when Clinton beat his impeachment rap.
Good PR.

73 posted on 05/04/2017 11:10:44 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Spunky

Ping for later reading.


74 posted on 05/04/2017 11:11:09 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: Jane Long
Isn’t there supposed to be a three day posting of the bill, for folks to read, prior to passing?

I think that was an Obama promise .... not sure it's law.

75 posted on 05/04/2017 11:12:07 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Responsibility2nd

I just put on Cspan live and heard it was approved 427-0...

Wait, that was an amendment to exempt the House from the Healthcare Bill.


76 posted on 05/04/2017 11:15:03 AM PDT by map
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To: sargon

“The whole reason the GOP didn’t pass an outright repeal is because of the vulnerability which it exposed them to... “

Ohhh..That must be why Trump lost in a landslide. After all, he was making repeated explicit promises to repeal and replace.
I never once heard “tweak and make marginal improvements”.

Repeal and utter cold turkey _deregulation_ would have caused an explosion of cheap, high quality healthcare we cannot imagine today. It would have happened with lightning speed. Did you miss the deregulation of the Airline industry? Before deregulation air travel was expensive and massively inefficient. Monopolies were granted in certain markets. People didn’t use air travel much. But after deregulation, Prices and availability and choices exploded like -never- before. Now everyone in America piles into planes, to everywhere, at prices only dreamed of before.
Or maybe you missed the break up of the Bell company phone industry. Remember paying for long distance? Now long distance isn’t even counted. You can pick up a cheap phone at cricket with unlimited talk and data for 55 bucks a month.

None of this would have happened if we hadn’t had a breakup of Bell/ATT and of the airline industry.
If the GOP would have listened to the national referendum on healthcare last November and simply repealed it, a similar explosion and falling prices would happen in healthcare.

But supply and demand is really scary I guess.


77 posted on 05/04/2017 11:16:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Pravious

They’re voting now on the big one.

American Health Care Act

They’re are 18 GOP No’s so far.


78 posted on 05/04/2017 11:16:26 AM PDT by Deo volente ("Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th." Donald Trump)
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To: map

216!


79 posted on 05/04/2017 11:16:58 AM PDT by ironman
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To: map

That was a bill to NOT exempt the Congress from the Healthcare bill.

LOL! It is hard to follow what they do...


80 posted on 05/04/2017 11:17:33 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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