If you mandate ear-boring for the uninsured and those who purchase inadequate polices, you should find more than enough Republicans to support the bill. Sure, America is by far the Number 1 in cost inefficiency in healthcare delivery, paying over 18% of GDP and still not covering everybody. Not to mention poor outcomes. Surely we can improve that cost inefficiency, like to 20 % of GDP, 38 million fewer people covered and even more premature deaths.
“His agenda of repealing Obamacare has been hijacked by people who don’t share his values.”
Would those be the values of stealing, lying and cheating or treason?
There is a certain delicious irony here.
Because if the bill doesn’t pass the House, or dies in the Senate, the GOP will almost assuredly drop any repeal/reform of healthcare entirely and simply move on to tax reform.
And folks like Lee, Paul, the Freedom Caucus…will likewise drop any mention of healthcare entirely.
These folks exist simply to gum up the works, and they really don’t care whose works they are. Democrats trying to pass legislation, republicans trying to pass legislation, doesn’t matter. They want no legislation passed, ever.
And when they move on to tax reform…they will pull exactly the same stunt. No matter what is proposed, it won’t be “pure” enough, and they will be screaming the only legislative word they know…“NO!!”
The only thing about this cretin that interests me is, is he right? i.e., not enough votes even to pass the legislative piece of $%^& out of the House? Nothing better than to see this thing die there, without ever seeing the dim light of the Senate, the mangey carcass ingloriously laid bare at Paul Ryan’s feet.
None of these RepubliKKKlan assholes will admit that the real reason they want to do away with Obamacare is because their Wall Street masters demand yet another tax cut!
Ah there’s the rub, they only know how to pass legislation that benefits a small portion of the populace, if they are even inclined to help anyone with anything.
God what a fiasco US politics is in. Not that it’s every really been perfect at any time in history, regardless of what’s written in the history books, but jesus it’s amazing that it’s in the state it’s in now. Especially after Obama’s pulled it from the jaws of Bush’s depression just 8 years ago, and now we have an even worse group of idiots than then running things. WTF man?
Given that any legislation they would pass would be terrible (and in the case of the AHCA, definitely is), I actually prefer these guys to the regular GOP.
I think he just wants the pressure off. It will pass the House.
But lots of dems want tax reform too, no? Shouldn’t that be easier to push forward?
“Especially after Obama’s pulled it from the jaws of Bush’s depression just 8 years ago, and now we have an even worse group of idiots than then running things. WTF man?”
No good deed goes unpunished.
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Tax Reform is an incredibly vague term. You and I both know, that what Democrats want out of reforming the tax code,and what republicans want out of reforming the tax code are polar opposites.
In the GOP mindset…that’s all this healthcare plan is…tax cuts for the rich. Which is precisely how they view reforming the tax code…more tax cuts for the rich. It’s their answer to literally everything.
If we have learned anything, letting republicans fiddle with the tax code when the economy is improving, will result in soaring deficits and stopping the economic improvement in its tracks.
“President Trump’s message has been hijacked. His agenda of repealing Obamacare has been hijacked by people who don’t share his values, by people who don’t share his desire to repeal Obamacare,” Lee later added.
To that I can only say: “THANK THE LORD!!!”
Don’t believe anything a GOP rep says. Only believe the actions.