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GOP's repeal-only plan quickly collapses in Senate
The Hill ^ | July 18, 2017 | Jessie Hellmann and Jordain Carney

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.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aca; fakefakenews; frauds; healthcare; obamacare; obamacare2; repeal; senate; uniparty; useless; worthless
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To: Innovative

“..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.


21 posted on 07/18/2017 1:01:27 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: PGR88

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.


22 posted on 07/18/2017 1:01:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Innovative

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.


23 posted on 07/18/2017 1:01:54 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: ScottinVA

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.


24 posted on 07/18/2017 1:04:51 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Innovative

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.


25 posted on 07/18/2017 1:06:11 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: so_real

[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.


26 posted on 07/18/2017 1:07:22 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Innovative

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.


27 posted on 07/18/2017 1:11:27 PM PDT by MrEdd (long hours.)
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To: Innovative

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.


28 posted on 07/18/2017 1:14:08 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Innovative
Just repeal it!

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.

29 posted on 07/18/2017 1:14:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Innovative

They were for repeal before they were against it.


30 posted on 07/18/2017 1:16:29 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: PGR88

“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.


31 posted on 07/18/2017 1:16:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Regulator

Susan Collims is about useless in these matters.


32 posted on 07/18/2017 1:18:30 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Innovative

The GOP is dead.


33 posted on 07/18/2017 1:19:44 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Jim Noble

The Democrat-Republican party must be destroyed.


34 posted on 07/18/2017 1:21:24 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Innovative

So what is the best option now. Should the conservatives like Cruz/Paul give in and take the watered down replacement?


35 posted on 07/18/2017 1:21:59 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: MrEdd

He can either revoke the exemptions or add a lot more. He can start by exempting entire states one by one.


36 posted on 07/18/2017 1:22:54 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: ScottinVA; Innovative

Amen

Repeal is The Conservative Solution.
So...eliminate by defunding, closing departments, just strip it into nothingness.


37 posted on 07/18/2017 1:23:51 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Innovative
If the GOP hadn't stolen the election away from Joe Miller, the scofflaw Murkowski, who somehow found a way to mount an effective write-in election to steal her own voters' election, would not be in the position to stop the repeal.

FU Lisa Murkowski. You are continue to be the enemy of Republican Party voters.
38 posted on 07/18/2017 1:23:56 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Innovative; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; sickoflibs; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; KC_Lion; ...
>> 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. <<

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)

39 posted on 07/18/2017 1:29:03 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Innovative

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.


40 posted on 07/18/2017 1:29:26 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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