Discussion: GOP Sen.: 'Unlikely' Preexisting Condition Coverage Will Be Same Under GOP's Bill

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White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Sunday nevertheless claimed Trump will make sure consumers with pre-existing conditions are ā€œtaken care of.ā€

Just watched an old mob movie where the ā€œDonā€ says he wants someone ā€œtake care of.ā€ He didn’t mean it in a good way.

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ā€œThe Senate is starting from scratch,ā€ she said. ā€œWe’re going to draft
our own bill. And I’m convinced that we’re going to take the time to do
it right.ā€

Collins… YOU HAVE HAD 7 YEARS TO FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT AND YOU’RE JUST STARTING NOW???

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13 Angry Men…who all need Viagra

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OH YES THEY COULD

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So after 7 years of constant whining, moaning, bitching and complaining like 6 year olds and endlessly yammering how they know best they are ā€œstarting from scratchā€?

That’s some real chutzpah there.

This slow motion train wreck just rumbles on and on…

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Agreed. If they don’t take it up before the end of this year, and they can’t because too much recess, and they won’t take up in an election year, maybe it’ll just wither on the vine. and trumpp’s mind will wander to something else.

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ā€œThe Senate is starting from scratch. We’re going to draft our own bill. And I’m convinced that I’m going to flap my gums 24/7 about taking the time to do it right, and then I’ll go ahead and vote for the inevitable piece of shit that we will produce, because I’m a complete fucking fraud with neither the spine or the integrity to ever really oppose the lunatics that run my party."

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This all sounds frighteningly plausible. But I still think there’s a pretty decent chance that the bill the Senate comes up with will be one that the House Freedumb Cock-ups will refuse to support, and that the attempt to reconcile the House and Senate bills may become a flying clusterfuck in its own right.

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Therein lies the problem. Obama is attached to the act. How dare a black man give health care to white people…s/n
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Seriously now. As I have posted many times already the ACA is a REPUBLICAN idea in its genesis. From the Heritage Foundation to be precise.
The GOP could fix the ACA or take the fixed ACA and call it Trumpcare and then BS that it’s new and improved and all will be forgiven. At least by the media if nobody else.
But no, they gotta do this the hard way.
The easiest way would be expanding medicare to all but that is waaaaay too logical for the GOP.

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So maybe instead of ā€˜preexisting conditions’ we should just say, ā€˜anyone in poor health’. Might help people understand how awful this GOP ā€˜alternative’ really is.

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Here we are again writing about his mental illness.

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They are making a career of it.

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And, to a significant degree, modeled on Romneycare.

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You don’t have to be in poor health to have a pre-existing condition. I have survived a bout with cancer. I’m healthy (Knock on wood) BUT it’s considered a pre-existing condition by every insurance company I know of.

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very fucking ominous, if you ask me - she’s not even pretending to get the vapours very hard, is she?

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And they’ve wasted 7 frigging years screwing around when Paulie Ryan coulda been fixing the ACA…
What a putz.

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Arrest that woman!

Charges: Impersonating a Moderate in the First Degree.

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Please, yes!

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Well, Susan Collins has been hitting the moderate sauce again. She says the darnedest things.

O.T. HRC trolls the media concern trolls.

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