There’s just a bit of a disagreement about how long it should take to phase out President Obama’s current health care law and implement their replacement.
First you have to have a replacement to implement, and while these dumb Repugs have had six years to come up with something, they have been completely unable to do so. What a bunch of looooooooooosers!
They can’t do a full repeal in the 115th Congress unless Senate Repubs nuke the filibuster.
Umm, no. They don’t “HAVE” to have any replacement. They just need to decide if they can pin it all on Obama successfully or not.
If they decide they can pin all the blame and pain on Obama (and you KNOW the MSM will gladly help do it) then fuck the 20 million who are on the ACA/Medicare.
They have elections in 2018 to finance and get through without being “Primaried” by a further-right candidate. That is ALL that matters to them.
They should just hire an auctioneer …
Hey… WegotaThirtyweekybid…
Nowthefive… Givethefive… Gothefivewhere ? ? —
I think they’re going to need, oh, about five years.
I’d like to think that’s what the insurance companies will tell them, but, we all know all they have to do is shove a big wad of deficit financed public money down their rapacious gullets to cover “transition adjustments” and the insurers will fall into line faster than a Wehrmacht platoon.
The Reps will screw this up so badly that the insurers wlll all leave the market. Then the only viable replacement option will be single payer.
"But the disagreement is noteworthy still because it is the first of many expected as the House and Senate settle into their new working relationship together with a Republican president. "
No.
But the disagreement is noteworthy because they are not disagreeing on the basis of differing beliefs about how the phase-out and its length will effect the insurance and medical industries and health care for Americans, but because they are disagreeing on the basis they have differing beliefs about how long the phase out should be in order to maximize their political profits/minimize political damage from the repeal.
FIFY
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said “I would prefer it be three years, there’s no question about it. I think it would be wiser to have three years.”
If I were cynical I would say Hatch is playing politics, hoping to pick up some vulnerable Democratic senate seats in 2018 by campaigning on the GOP success in repealing the abysmal socialistic Obamacare without having to defend the GOP’s alternative which is coming soon to a hospital near you.
But I’m not cynical so I won’t say that.
Indeed. And, of course, that corporate welfare is Obama’s fault, donchano?
Notice how Ryan is in focus and McConnell is blurry? That is his actual visage - and he has no reflection in a mirror, either.
Idiots… What will they do when the insurance market collapses?
“It should be repealed and replaced, and all of that should be done in the 115th Congress not left to a future Congress to deal with,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Politico earlier this week.
ok this one is easy
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I’ve never seen so many eager men who are willing to grab a hold of a political live wire.
Meadows: “Obama made me do it.”
n they will fight over that first.
Sociopaths whistling while they work…
I, myself, began doing " grab ankles " exercises after Nov. 8 ----
Haven’t quite got the stretch yet … but workin’ on it —
He just appointed Vince McMahon’s wife to run the SBA.
where did I put that serrated knife? /s
Suppose it would do any good to remind GOPs that’s what they usually refer to as a “bailout”? 
Hmm. It’s not like they really have a plan, so we shouldn’t read too much strategery into this, but of course, the smart ones are smart enough to want to get over that mid-term hump without locking tens of thousands of their constituents out of the health insurance market. So that takes us to… January 2019 or thereabouts, at which point the plan is what, exactly? To get the Dems to pass a “replacement” plan consisting of HSA hocus-pocus and some bullshit about interstate insurance sales because federalism, right? So either the Dems are under 40 Senators and can’t even filibuster at that point, or they won’t help and there’s no individual marketplace whatsoever, and 60 million Americans are frozen out of coverage. Maybe more like 40 million in a best case scenario. And they want to head into the decisive 2020 election, which could determine control of the House for the next ten years, with that albatross around their necks? Please proceed, Republicans.