Complete non-starter for McConnell and the right wing, both in the Senate and the House.
But it does indicate two more “Strongly Leaning No”.
Yep, this should be real good…
10 pounds of GOP shit in a 2 pound bag…
Let’s get 4 or 5 more proposals. The more the merrier!
It’s starting to sound like a giant cave on the ole’ repeal-and-replace mantra, eh? This new POS is smelling like a warmed over "let’s fix the ACA but tell everyone it’s actually a different steaming pile!
Back-benchers starting to freelance must be the last thing McConnell wants or needs at this point. Yippee!
Three Ring Circus
The GOP momentum?
It would also repeal the financial penalty imposed on individuals who did not comply with the health care law’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the requirement for employers to provide affordable coverage plans, while maintaining the ban on denying coverage to consumers with pre-existing conditions.
If there’s no financial penalty for not getting insurance nor any requirement to have employers (small employers I assume) offer it, what’s the incentive to participate? And if the number of participants drops substantially, how would the ban on denying coverage be possible?
EDIT TO ADD:
Graham’s and Cassidy’s bill would maintain taxes Obamacare levied on wealthy Americans and send federal money currently spent on health insurance to the states as block grants.
Non starter. Taxes on the wealthy to pay for this debacle stay but money that pays for the State plans (Medicare, Medicaid) goes to the States as a block grant??
As outlined Graham’s bill isn’t a repeal and replace bill as much as an ACA “repair” bill. It isn’t all that much of a repair bill, but repeal and replace it isn’t.
Actually, it serves McConnell to muddy the waters.
Makes the ordinary person less able to follow things and confuses polling. This is still bad policy, but it will poll better than whatever tripe that come from McTurtle.
It would really help Republicans in this effort, if any of them had a basic understanding of insurance. They do not want to include anything that would require healthy people to obtain policies and magically think that a pool of people that excludes them, but covers pre-existing conditions, will produce affordable premiums.
Yeah, genius. Let’s remove the penalty for choosing to not have health insurance so that all those healthy, short-sighted young people will go spend their money on beer and fries so that the pool of premium dollars shrinks and squeezes the living shit out everybody left in it. Perfect.
There’s a FP article on the Great Orange Satan stating that Yertle is telling the so-called GOP “moderates” not to worry about Medicaid cuts because they’ll happen far in the future and a future Congress (read: Dem) will deal with the mess and shore the plans up. Eventually.
You know, just like the sequester cuts… 
I like how Lindsey thinks he is relevant. It’s quite entertaining
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try,…ad infinitum…
Angus King just called the entire GOP healthcare process “preposterous.” (I think that’s his refined way of saying it’s a “shitstorm.”)
This isn’t a 'repeal and " bill, it’s a ‘sand in the gas tank’ bill. “… repeal[ing] the financial penalty imposed on individuals who did not comply with the health care law’s individual mandate … while maintaining the ban on denying coverage to consumers with pre-existing conditions” is the formula for an adverse selection death spiral.
If McConnell tells you “not to worry,” find the exits and leave the room as quickly as possible.
It’d be lovely if a GOP governor of a non-expansion state went ahead and took the Medicaid money this week or next - the cherry on McConnell’s shit sundae.
@canary02 I dread the answer you’d get if you asked the average Republican what the three stools are.