Posted on 08/09/2017 2:22:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act will be the first order of business in the new Congress.
McConnell announced the agenda Tuesday, after meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Senate GOP colleagues over lunch.
"When we come back Jan. 3 we'll be moving to the ObamaCare replacement resolution, the ObamaCare repeal resolution will be the first item up in the New Year," McConnell said, referring to repeal legislation that is expected to pass with a simple majority vote under special budgetary rules.
The legislation is expected to track closely to similar legislation the GOP-controlled Congress passed at the end of 2015 but which President Obama vetoed.
There is a dispute between GOP Senate and House conservatives whether the repeal of the law should be phased in over three years — a timeline senators favor — or more quickly than that.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of McConnell's leadership team, said Republicans will consider an array of measures to replace President Obama's signature healthcare law.
"There's also going to be an important discussion about all the alternatives that were there in 2009 and 2010 that the administration and particularly the president constantly said, ‘There were no other ideas.’ There were lots of other ideas. This gives us a chance to revisit those ideas," Blunt said.
One proposal favored by Republicans would be to allow insurance companies to sell plans across state lines. Another would give people incentives to create health savings accounts, something GOP policymakers hope may increase competition among providers and lower costs.
McConnell said Republicans spent Tuesday’s lunch “discussing a variety of different issues with” Pence and said he expects to meet regularly with him next year.
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McConnell: We’ll start Obamacare repeal on day one
Boy are we fools..but were waking up fast
McConnell is an incompetent lying weasel.
There is a traitor in your midst....who promised to vote to get rid of it. McCain lied!!
Nothing but a big lying facade for benefit of the “unwashed masses”. That’s all it was.
In reality, NONE of em wanted it repealed...because they belong to the UniParty.
What the UniParty wants, the UniParty gets.
Yeah, we’re “catching on”, alright.
It just makes my blood boil that these Republicans think they can get away with this. No more! We are finally realizing that they are all talk and no action. This will come back and bite them in the butt.
As long as this jackass is leader nothing will get done. He is a RINO of the worst order. Closer to a communists Democrat.
Republicans keep trotting this idea out like it's the Holy Grail of insurance solutions, but I doubt it.
There will be the same people and the same insurance companies, and ungrouping them from specific geographic areas is not going to change their overall health or lack thereof one iota.
Regardless of where they live, the young and healthy will not signup, and the unhealthy will.
Lucy with the football again.
Cue Maxwell Smart: “missed it by that much”
The turd-le us a democRat liar ...
The GOP is right up there with the liberal snowflakes... useless.
Let me guess, the last eight Years and eleven Months were just practice sessions.
It’s actually a provision of the ACA that it’s allowed, but the insurance companies have shown little interest in going through all the provider negotiations that are necessary to starting business in a new territory, what percent of the chargemaster price they’ll pay, who’s in the PPO, etc. it’s been a talking point forever, but the insurance industry shrugs their shoulders at the idea.
So there must be some elections coming up in November, and he hopes Democrats will win, making it even harder to get rid of the albatross of Obamacare. Am I right?
Before Obamacare is repealed and replaced, the Senate can rally Congress to lead the states to ratify a required healthcare amendment to the Constitution, Congress wrongly ignoring securing the required constitutional consent of the states before establishing Obamacare in 2009.
Nah !
We’re predictably not going to see a healthcare amendment, business as usual with the corrupt Washington cartel. The states may not support such an amendment anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if post-17th Amendment ratification, career senators up for reelection in 2018 are trying to win another term so that they can stall an Obamacare repeal for another six years.
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
Lock him up!
STFU McConnell.
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