Discussion: After Obamacare Repeal Collapse, GOP Weighs Whether To Help State Markets

Such a conundrum - stand with your constituents, the people who pay you and whom you are supposed to serve or stand with the idiot in chief who cares for no one and nothing but himself.

Real profiles in courage there, 'pubs.

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ā€œThis is kind of all new territory for us, weā€™re getting our sea legs under us.ā€

Yeah, you and Trump. You fools had SEVEN YEARS to get your legs ready. Wimps.

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Wouldnā€™t it be great if McConnell and Ryan could be replaced by centrist Republicans with the help Democrats

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His responses betray his profound ignorance of how the ACA and insurance risk pools work or what the subsidies or the reasons for the individual mandates do and are for.

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Still dazed from the spectacular collapse of their efforts to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are now confronted with the question of whether theyā€™ll seek to help Americans in states where insurers are pulling out of the individual marketplaces and premiums are rising without trying to gut the program.

Simple. Allow people in countries without an exchange insurer to sign up for Medicaid. Problem solved.

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Itā€™s the equivalent of a grad student telling his professor he didnā€™t finish his research paper (but still needs an A) because heā€™s new at this ā€œstudent thing.ā€ In this case, the stakes are higher. . . .

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You know if Republicans had brains (A big if), they would have improved on Obamacare and taken political credit for it.

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ā€œwe have to try to reach out and figure out where we can make health care better,ā€ Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told TPM Friday. ā€œThis is kind of all new territory for usā€¦ā€

No s***.

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Therein lay the problem: we may pay them, but their benefactors pay them more.

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Of course, if they had brains (and hearts), they would already have helped to make it as good as possible in the first place rather than fighting their own idea tooth and nail because a brown man decided to implement it after daring to become president.

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ā€œI have said since December that while the CSR payments are not constitutional they need to be made in a legal way so that the market does not collapse.,ā€ House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) ā€¦ told TPM Friday morning.

Another victim of the ā€˜everything I donā€™t like is unconstitutionalā€™ meme.

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lā€™ve pointed that out to my Rep - ;they couldnā€™t come up with a plan because they already had - it was called the ACA.

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Guess it fell prey to the one-drop ruleā€¦

What are those? Do you mean purple state democrats?

ā€œI havenā€™t really thought about this very much,ā€ Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) told TPM Friday"
Nice to know. 1/6 the US economy, peopleā€™s health and very lives at stakeā€¦What do you think about, Senator?

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They never have a Plan B

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Itā€™s as simple as that. Fix the problems, expand coverage, name it something sufficiently hateful enough for the base and call it a day. PP will sign anything as long as heā€™s told it will somehow be an affront to Obama.

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Goddamn it! Sam Sheppard is dead.

Fuck

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ā€œWeā€™ve got to do something. The repeal effortā€™s dead so I think the next logical thing is we have to try to reach out and figure out where we can make health care better,ā€ Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told TPM Friday, just hours after the Senate failed to pass a placeholder bill to keep Obamacare repeal efforts moving. ā€œThis is kind of all new territory for us, weā€™re getting our sea legs under us.ā€

Because Republicanā€™ts have ZERO experience helping the American people since the day after Lincoln was shot.

The Republicanā€™t Party: Killing more Americans than and al Qaeda wet dream, since 1981ā€¦