GOP: Traitors among us.
“Hey prof, I need an extension for my term paper.”
“It’s a…term paper…”
“So that’s a yes?”
Here’s a helpful hint, Mitch: File this under “Brewing, Shit Storm”
They really, really don’t care what happens to ANYONE with just a few exceptions, like Sen. Collins pictured above, but even she has put party over country time and again.
ter a meeting Monday evening at Tortilla Coast, a restaurant near the Capitol, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said that there was an “overwhelming consensus” among the group of conservative hardliners that they’d like to see more specifics about the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare before voting on the budget resolution, which is expected to be up for a vote in the House this week.
More specifics? Why? I was under the impression Obamacare was the worst thing to befall mankind since Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden. Please don’t tell me it was all just political posturing for the Tea Partiers.
The Tortilla Coast confab lasted from 3:30 to 8 p.m., when the ending of Happy Hour prompted a hasty adjournment of the ad hoc summit.
Can anyone explain the rules for replacement, i’m no wiz when it comes to senate rules. If they wait until there’s a replacement plan before they repeal wouldn’t they need 60 votes for replacement, or any part of replacement? If that’s the case and they never get the replacement they want passed doesn’t the ACA remain unless they decide to gut it without a replacement?,which i think they wouldn’t dare do
So GOP will replace an essentially Romney health care model called O-Care with a virtually identical law, call it Trump care, and their minions will think the new law with Trump’s name on it much better than the one with the black guy’s name on it. Just like Trump, the GOP builds nothing except for the name they put on it.
This must be what “make America great again” means: Let’s return again to the days when the black guy did all the work so the white guy could take credit.
I wonder if history will record what fakes the republicans are in our time
“The delay would buy Congress more time to work out of the the details of a replacement.”
If only the GOP had their own healthcare plan.
One based on health-insurance marketplaces.
With an individual mandate.
And protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
Maybe from a rightwing outfit like The Heritage Foundation.
Something like that.
they did and then all voted against it
The saddest part here is twofold.
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Media will fawn over these reasonable senators, attaching “centrist” to their names going forward and therefore giving mainstream credence to thing they support(all supported the Garland travesty)
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Democrats will, as usual learn the wrong lesson and will think being more like Susan Collins is good for thr party.
That sounds risky.
I’d feel more comfortable if it was tested first, like in a moderatly sized state version.
Not in Texas approved history books…
I especially agree with your first point - and it makes me furious. Just because one of these Republicans says one reasonable thing in front of a microphone, he/she becomes a hero despite the rest of their record. And PLEASE don’t let point #2 happen this time.
GOP is about to find out it will be much harder to replace O-Care than to oppose O-Care.
But, now that the insurance industry has had a chance to test drive the ACA, they’re not going to roll over and agree to an identical law (which won’t actually be identical…) That industry - hated as it may be by many - went thru hell during the implementation of OCare. So many new rules, regs, billing practices, changes to benefits and what requires authorizations, payments to docs, hospitals, and ancillary healthcare providers, etc. Trust me, it wasn’t an easy implementation but the promise was that, once the bumps of the first year or two smoothed out, it meant an increase in enrollment i.e. profits.
No, it’s back to the table for the GOF*ckers and the insurance/pharma industries. And the only proposals I’ve heard and can piece together is that the replacement plan will retain most everything but the mandates, will cut subsidies to lower income people/families (read: lower enrollment numbers) and allow plans to cross state lines. Trust me, these insurance companies will do whatever they can to protect their turf - this is why there are between 35 - 40 different, distinct, separate Blues companies. Turf wars in the making PLUS insurance companies must comply with state insurance boards so let the GOF explain to the states how they will no longer regulate plans sold across state lines.
Again, I say Shit Storm Brewing for Ryan and Mitch.
Doubtfull, that would require there to still be civilizations capable of recording history in the Time After Trump.
And the hospital industry will not allow a repeal without a simultaneous replacement. That industry has been disproportionately victimized by the pre-O-Care status quo.