Oh yeah, this makes GREAT sense.
What callous idiots!
You cannot repeal the regulations and framework of the PPACA via reconciliation.
You do not have the votes.
If 22 million losing coverage is too painful for senators, 30 million is impossible.
Ben Sasse is another Paul Ryan - a charming exterior hiding a vapid interior.
So-called moderate Republicans are now surrendering to the RWNJ’s and posing cuckoo solutions, jeopardizing those on health care and the markets. The Repubs cannot govern, they can only obstruct. Lunacy!
Throwing out soundbites in the hopes that something sticks and everyone forgets that problem the Rs created is intractable…
Ben Sasse is no moderate.
Republicans decided that no president should be able to submit a Supreme Court nominee in his last year in office. It would only be fair that no president can sign any bills until he has been in office for one year.
These motherfuckers just get dumber by the minute.
If stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Menard’s were smart, they would have their stores located in Republican districts hold a big sale on pitchforks and torches during this 4th 0f July holiday weekend. And maybe a 50% discount on driveway tar and chicken feathers.
Take everything away from them. Wait awhile. Then the peasants will be happy to take whatever stale, terrible scraps we throw to them.
Sasse is one of the biggest assholes in the Republican Senate. And that’s saying plenty, since the Republican Party is basically a proctology training course.
Hence the "so-called."
Also, apparently an idiot. There is absolutely no possible way this path ends well. If they can’t pass a replacement now, they aren’t going to be able to do it 6 months from now, let alone 12. It’s just setting up the complete collapse of the US health insurance system.
Delay robbing the poor to pay the rich? Seems I’ve heard a variation on that before involving Peter and Paul.
Actually robbing the poor and paying the rich would happen - the taxes would be gone upon repeal and implementation. But the poor would have nothing at all left over. And a replacement? Ha ha. They’d have no interest in that.
McConnell isn’t going to pay any attention to these suggestions. McConnell wants this thing off his plate yesterday, once and for all. The last thing he wants is to have a health care debate eating up all of next year…an election year…too. Not to mention that repeal doesn’t meet the Byrd requirements and forcing McConnell to seek 60 votes, something he has no hope of ever achieving.
Sasse is stupidly just trying to respond to the criticisms back home from the wingnuts, without any regard to what can actually be done.
If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!
3:37 AM - 30 Jun 2017
Again showing his great engagement with the issue and facts, and total grasp of the complexities of health care. Has anyone ever asked him to explain the basic concept of insurance? Or what health care is? Or disability? Or trying to pay for things like medicine and doctors and food when you’re not rich? I bet he cannot give a coherent or half way knowledgeable answer to any of those (but, of course, that would apply to just about every topic that should be of importance when you are president).
Now THAT is statesmanship. It’s too hard to do what we know we must do, so let’s just do what we want to do and hope that someone in the future will fix it. The mid-terms will be in full swing by the time they would have to pass and implement the replacement, so I’m sure it would be a simple matter.
They have always been good at repealing–they did that repeatedly for 7 years. It’s “replace with a workable alternative” that makes things difficult.
Neither of them is even remotely charming—and vapidity is their strongest character trait.
These morons haven’t been able to come up with a workable plan in seven years. What the hell makes them think they could in one year, or ten, or a thousand?
Ben Sasse is the kind of person who, for hours on end, will ponder the eternal question, “How do they get those big tuna fish in those tiny cans?”