Posted on 07/17/2017 5:50:29 PM PDT by Rockitz
GOP Sens. Jerry Moran (Kansas) and Mike Lee (Utah) announced on Monday night they will not support taking up a bill repealing and replacing ObamaCare, effectively blocking the legislation.
"This closed-door process has yielded the [bill], which fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare’s rising costs. For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one," Moran said in a statement.
Lee added on Twitter that "my colleague @JerryMoran and I will not support the MTP to this version of BCRA."
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I declare as a Freeper and Patriot and Trump supporter (likely redundant), the U.S. Senate and House are enemies of We the people.
You traitors have crossed the Rubicon and made it clear you love your caviar and cocktails and hate us.
We despise you and you still work for us.
You are fired.
The Republicans stopped talking about Obamacare after the 2012 Election.
I certainly received MOUNTAINS of pleading donation letters, from Pubbies since 2012...threatening 0Care couldn’t be repealed, if we didn’t get more Pubbies elected.
who cares, as long as Obamacare fails, and the penalties are dropped.
I think straight out repeal requires 60 senators to approve.
It is time for the Republican Party to simply repeal Obamacare as they promised many, many times.
It is too difficult for the Republican voters to understand why the REPUBLICANS now refuse to pass a simple repeal with a two year sunset clause.
The voters of this country want Obamacare to be repealed. The Republican party is headed for the trashcan if they cannot keep their promise to repeal that awful, awful law.
In local elections, but on tv the Republicans weren’t talking about Obamacare.
The Damn Republicans have had every chance to come up with a great bill and keep failing. Maybe if they kept the Medical, Insurance, and Pharma lobbies out of it they could come up with something. Cost is the thing and unless we do something then we all suffer down the road.
Anyone read Avik Roy here? or heard Betsy McCaughley on Lou Dobbs last Week? Avik spilled the beans, it made Medicaid means tested via the angled "ladder" to overcome the barrier the was in the prior version and frankly combine that with the Exec-Orders and $ for Direct Primary Care trials in the new bill ( again via Avik Roy ), it had IMHO the ability to transform Medicaid ( and other programs ) to potential free market options at the State Level which would forever change things for all of us for the better. Betsy said while it has the tax added via the Senate it still got rid of the mandate and employer mandate. You take your victories where you can and go on. These guys gave up the fight... It is time to get rid of the 17th and or go back to an old fashion Filibuster. Not to mention it is time to endorse Matt Bevin ( President Trump if you are listening ) because Mitch didn't get it done.
Worse I get that The economy can't rebound with the milstone of Obamacare around our necks, it was the foundation of the Fundamental Restoration of this country and they kneecapped it, and by extension the Trump Adminstration. For what? So they can run Jeb! or his Mini-Me Rubio in 2020? Seriously they all need to go play shuffleboard. They can't surrender the power, shame on them all...
I suspect Crapitolism, big time.
Ain’t gonna happen.
“How ‘bout a straight repeal?”
That is just a bit too logical. Our Congressional leaders have to sniff around to uncover some hidden wisdom to justify not doing the logical thing. Anybody can do the logical thing, so it makes them uncomfortable, replaceable.
The problem is that Republicans have done a sh---y job at selling market-based, patient-centered healthcare.
Ever since Hillarycare, Republicans should have made every effort at deregulating healthcare. But what did the Clintons do when Hillarycare failed? They immediately passed SCHIP, which got more of the federal government involved in healthcare, piece by piece. And stupid Republicans went along with it.
Then came HIPPA, more Democrat foot-in-the-door techniques and supported by more Republicans.
Then came Bush with the Medicare Modernization Act, which created Medicare Part D.
You see how this works with the Dems? They NEVER give up the fight. They ALWAYS regroup and do things in pieces when something they want is rejected out of hand. And they ALWAYS look at the big picture down the road.
We are going to have single-payer healthcare because Republicans simply are not making the case for free market healthcare.
There were never 50 republicans to begin with. Truth be told, there are maybe only a half a dozen Republicans. The rest are democRATs who saw no path to victory in their respective states without (R)s after their names.
I’m sick of these bastards.
I am not surprised. Many of the R’s are RINOs because many of the US voters are RINOs or liberals. The voters will get what they deserve - ObamaCare until it dies and morphs into single payer.
....”We are going to have single-payer healthcare because Republicans simply are not making the case for free market healthcare”.....
They are not going to give up the revenue flow Gov. HealthCare generates ‘FOR THEM’.....Just like Social Security...they love taking and using what isn’t theirs to use.
Someone needs to start leaking dirt on the Pubbies...make them squirm.
I have a feeling that Scott Adams will soon be weighing in on this topic. Perhaps something in line with his “Goals vs Systems?”
Any guesses on what Trump’s next steps will be?
Trump should grab Price and 6 of the top health care doctors in the country and the CEO’s of the top insurance companies and lock them in a room until they produce Something for “we the people.”
Then let the Republicrats kill it because they get none of the lobbying perks.
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