Posted on 10/17/2017 9:33:39 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Two leading senators said Tuesday they have the “basic outlines” of a bipartisan agreement to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has blocked. Both said in separate interviews that they still have unresolved issues but expressed optimism that a compromise was near.
The agreement would involve a two-year extension of federal payments to insurers that Trump halted last week, said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
Unless the money is quickly restored, insurers and others say that will result in higher premiums for people buying individual policies and in some carriers leaving unprofitable markets.
In exchange, Republicans want Congress to give states “meaningful” flexibility to ease some coverage requirements under President Barack Obama’s health care law.
“The definition of meaningful,” Alexander said when asked what the remaining stumbling blocks were.
Alexander agreed with his negotiating partner, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who said the two lawmakers “have the basic outlines” of an agreement but have differences to bridge.
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Pass it and we will believe you.
Screw them all....................
I trust no one.
NO ONE.
Get your veto pen ready, Mr. Trump.
So, the R senators are saying they will rescue Obamacare? Do I have that correct?
Thank God for the house.
These lying swamp monsters are absolutely determined to SAVE 0bamacare.
George Carlin’s comments about the word “bipartisan” are ringing in my ears.
Make a wide tipped PERMANENT marker for emphasis.
According to Sen Alexander, Trump and he spoke this weekend, and Trump is supportive.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/16/trump-bipartisan-senate-obamacare-deal-243846
Alexander said Trump told him by phone Oct. 14 he’d like to see a bill that funds the Obamacare cost-sharing subsidies that he abruptly cut off last week. In return, he wants to see “meaningful flexibility for the states in providing more choices,” Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“He said he wanted to make sure that in this interim period while we’re still arguing about the long-term direction of health care, that people aren’t hurt — those were his words,” Alexander said of Trump.
The “campaign contributions” must be flowing like Niagara.
So instead of repealing Obamacare “root and branch”, the GOP is going to save it?
To Hell with the GOP.
It’s time to go in a different direction.
unless the Senate “compromise” spending bill originates in the House, then they’re back to where we are now: expenditures for this purpose are illegal.
“Bipartisan” = 48 Senate Rats,McLame,Collins and Grahamnesty
Patriots are reminded that these post-17th Amendment ratification senators are stubbornly ignoring the following about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers where INTRAstate healthcare is concerned.
More specifically, regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, please note the following.
Previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices have clarified that states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to either regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare, or to regulate insurance, regardless if the people negotiating insurance contract are domiciled in different states.
“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.
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphases added] of indemnity against loss.” —Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
”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.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
So the first step in the senators’ plan for fixing Obamacare despite voter demand to repeal Obamacare is that they must successfully petition the states for a healthcare amendment to the Constitution.
In fact, note that former Speaker Pelosi wrongly ignored a House resolution to petition the states for a healthcare amendment to the Constitution before she irresponsibly rammed Obamacare through the House.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of state sovereignty-respecting, Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the primary ballots so that they can pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot lawmakers to DC on election day in 2018.
Patty Murray, really? My dog has a higher IQ. She is the definition of leftist political hack.
“The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States”
Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution
https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm
The tax money taken from you and me by Congress becomes the Property of the United States.
Congress can dispose of what was our money any way it may chose, including throwing it into the bank accounts of billion dollar companies profiting off the PPACA.
Great—the uniparty is agreeing on how to put Obamacare back together again in a way that Trump can’t undo.
At a minimum, Congress should:
1. rebate and remit the 2014, 2015 and 2016 PPACA penalties
2. raise the 30-hours a week work limitation to say 35 hours
3. raise the 50-employee employer mandate threshold
to allow employers to create new jobs
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