Posted on 07/18/2017 12:46:03 PM PDT by Innovative
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says she will not support moving forward with a plan to repeal ObamaCare with a delayed replacement, effectively killing the latest legislative gambit from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
With Murkowski's defection, GOP leaders do not have the votes to move forward to an ObamaCare repeal bill that passed the Senate in 2015, but was vetoed by then-President Obama.
Earlier Tuesday, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) also said they will not support moving to the repeal-only bill. Republicans can only afford two defections if Vice President Pence breaks a tie.
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“..What is the matter with these idiots?!...”
These FOOLS are far more mad at the fact that an outsider was chosen by the American electorate than ANY of them. They cannot handle it. All they are doing now is protecting their LOBBYIST INCOME...at any cost to America and its people.
The mid-terms are coming. Replace the RINOS.
It’s imploding as more and more people are dropping their coverage, and as more and more insurers are dropping out of the health insurance market entirely.
Mitch McConnell cannot get zilch...nothing done in the Senate. Trump...do everything in your power to get rid of this turncoat traitor “McConnell” and his weak sister cohort, “Paul Ryan”. They are both major losers and Trump haters to the core. They are the Democrat scum are one and the same.
Trumpie, do what you have do right now...or these low life vermin will take you and our great country down.
Defunding it means removing money and power from THEM. When do pols ever vote to stop payola?
The uniparty owned by the globalist donor class.
The “ObamaCare repeal bill that passed the Senate in 2015” did not repeal ACA.
See sections 204 and 205 regarding the individual and business mandates. The mandates were not repealed, the penalty amounts were set to zero.
Leaving the structure in place is dangerous. It allows a future congress to set the rates to a non-zero amount.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3762/text
They spend more effort trying to trick us than doing what they promised.
[I suppose they were chosen for this sabotage]
This is a coup by the GOPe to lose the Senate majority in ‘18, so the Dems can impeach Trump while treasonous RINOs keep their hands clean.
It hasn’t “completely collapsed” at all.
We are just up against a holding action.
Now it is time for Trump to start turning the thumbscrews and begin revoking the exemption executive orders.
Well, does not Obamacare require funding to be voted on periodically (such as every year)? If liberal Republicans join Democrats in stopping real reform, the only way to force them to compromise is to starve Obamacare of federal funding.
If you want Obamacare repealed, you are going to have to (somehow) elect a Congress willing to do it.
Congress is closer - a LOT closer - to nationalization than they are to repeal.
They were for repeal before they were against it.
“Someone, please tell me how Obamacare will ‘implode.’”
lowest deductible “silver” plan $1,100 -> $5,000
Also, the number of people with $5,000+ deductible bronze plans that have actually tried to use them increases each year. A $5,000 deductible can only be discharged by bankruptcy once every six years.
People know $5,000 deductible plans are junk. Debt collectors are reminding people of it as I type.
Susan Collims is about useless in these matters.
The GOP is dead.
The Democrat-Republican party must be destroyed.
So what is the best option now. Should the conservatives like Cruz/Paul give in and take the watered down replacement?
He can either revoke the exemptions or add a lot more. He can start by exempting entire states one by one.
Amen
Repeal is The Conservative Solution.
So...eliminate by defunding, closing departments, just strip it into nothingness.
Worthless RINO Collins is no surprise. But Capito is a huge disappointment. She's always been squishy and I suspected she'd stab us in the back when she ran for the Senate, which is why I opposed her bid even though she was the only "name" candidate at the time. Since we no longer have to worry about a RAT incumbent, she needs to have her butt primaried next time. There is no excuse for this. If Capito hadn't turned traitor, Pence would have been able to cast a tie-breaking vote to stop Collins and Murkowski's defections.
>> I don’t think they have the votes to repeal or replace unless they go nuclear. <<
I'd much rather they had saved "going nuclear" for repealing Obamacare instead of confirming Gorsuch. (and I stand by my beliefs that Gorsuch is a male version of Sandra Day O'Connor and will not vote to overturn Roe v. Wade or homo marriage)
I need affordable coverage.
Put a bill in the hopper:
1. allowing insurance companies to sell low-cost coverage for up to 16 days of life-saving hospital inpatient care with a $1,000 deductible, with available riders for:
a. up to $1,000 of outpatient testing with Medicare Part B level co-pays for most Part B covered tests
b. one emergency visit with a co-pay of $300 less $10 for each month of premiums fully paid under the policy prior to the visit
c. drug coverage with a patient co-pays of $10, $20, and $50 per 30-day/course prescription for insurer selected drugs
d. one emergency ambulance ride with 20% co-insurance
2. allowing purchase of such coverage to be considered qualifying coverage
3. subsidy half of PPACA “silver plan” amount
Put it up for a vote.
Make these RINOs vote.
I want a choice and a chance to save my life.
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