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Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill [Repeal Dead]
TheHill.com ^ | 07/17/17 | Jordain Carney

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 115th; aca; ahca; mitchcare; obamacare; obamacare2; repeal; repealandreplace
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
>So when obozocare goes belly up, who gets blamed?<

The Democrats will.

No Republican voted for Obamacare.

The party in power will get blamed.

Doesn't matter who passed it. Republicans said they'd fix it.

81 posted on 07/17/2017 6:55:24 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Rockitz

It will pass.

Relax.


82 posted on 07/17/2017 6:55:55 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: blackdog

I, as well as several others, have posted that many times. You are probably one of the ones I speak of blackdog.


83 posted on 07/17/2017 6:56:54 PM PDT by houeto
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To: Rockitz

Good for Lee and Moran. McConnell has failed dramatically here. He needed to go with the conservative’s role and force the left flank under public pressure (i.e. they ALLLLLL ran on his issue, and the moderates need to get in line on this issue). Instead he’s undercut the conservatives and told the moderates there will never be cuts to Medicaid.

I also blame Trump (who I think mostly has made excellent decisions in office). He gave the legislature the full role in this instead of leading with a template to drive up public support. He needed to lead and not try to get them to sign anything to declare victory.


84 posted on 07/17/2017 6:57:15 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Rockitz

JUST REPEAL THE DAMN THING!!!!!!!


85 posted on 07/17/2017 7:01:09 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: ilgipper

I also blame Trump (who I think mostly has made excellent decisions in office). He gave the legislature the full role in this instead of leading with a template to drive up public support. He needed to lead and not try to get them to sign anything to declare victory.


Lead who? The beltway GOP has made it abundantly clear they won’t be supporting the POTUS of their own party. We are in uncharted territory in modern American history here. Never has a sitting POTUS been so abandoned by his own party immediately after he was elected.


86 posted on 07/17/2017 7:01:10 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

>>>The ball is in Congress’ court. All Trump can do is ask.

He actually could do more than ask. He has never actually introduced his plan, instead letting Congress work on its version.. He should release his repeal and replace plan that brings great health care at a fraction of the cost. How could Congress not pass such a plan?


87 posted on 07/17/2017 7:02:42 PM PDT by oincobx
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To: blackdog

love it!

...if only


88 posted on 07/17/2017 7:03:55 PM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: Rockitz

Repeal ONLY. No “replace”.

Let’s return to what we had before the debacle known as the “Affordable” Care Act that isn’t “affordable” for anyone not getting a .GOV handout.


89 posted on 07/17/2017 7:05:48 PM PDT by jstolzen (All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
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To: dynachrome; All

“So when obozocare goes belly up, who gets blamed?”

The GOPe and the QUISLING RINOs seem to have this timed for the 2018 Mid-Terms.

A POX on ALL of their houses! *SPIT*


90 posted on 07/17/2017 7:06:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: jstolzen

I’m actually happy this monstrosity of a bill is failing and destined to die on the vine.

I never thought anyone could make the “Affordable” Care Act any worse than it always was.

Leave it to our feckless Republican Party to figure out a way to do so.

If anything, this bill was WORSE than what it was replacing.

That is not what we need.


91 posted on 07/17/2017 7:07:09 PM PDT by jstolzen (All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
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To: RetiredArmy

“Seek Him while you can.”

...and keep your powder dry! ;)


92 posted on 07/17/2017 7:08:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: jstolzen
Repeal ONLY. No “replace”.

Amen!

93 posted on 07/17/2017 7:08:23 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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well we know the obama admin has been using the nsa to dig up dirt for the last 8 years.

God only knows how many congressmen are being blackmailed...or ‘johnroberts-ed’


94 posted on 07/17/2017 7:09:14 PM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

“Let ObamaCare crash and burn, and then Trump can step up to the microphone and push a solid plan directly to the people.”

So far, that strategy has been working; Make It So! :)


95 posted on 07/17/2017 7:09:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Jane Long

Those are just headlines. If the GOP had been criticizing Obamacare, it would be less popular.


96 posted on 07/17/2017 7:10:20 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Rockitz

I know it isn’t a good bill. I would love to know how Rand Paul and the others expect to get anything approved with Murkowski, McCain and Graham in the senate. I dont see any plan with cuts and defunding planned parenthood getting 50 votes.


97 posted on 07/17/2017 7:13:10 PM PDT by deek69
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To: Rockitz

Paging Speaker Paul Ryan! Didn’t he submit 6, 7, 8 ‘alternatives’ to 0bamaCare since its inception and all were shot down by 0bama?

Oh, wait...Ryan isn’t on our side. Never mind.


98 posted on 07/17/2017 7:13:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Replace is dead. Now, on to the REPEAL!


99 posted on 07/17/2017 7:14:17 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Drew68
The party in power will get blamed.

Please explain to me, how does a political party get blamed for something they never voted for and were shut out of the process thereof?

100 posted on 07/17/2017 7:14:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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