I hear there are protests planned EVERYWHERE. It won’t just be the July sun burning the DC Goopers at home this week – flame-broiled butts everwhere is my prediction.
This is gonna be a long week for many/most Goopers.
And then, when they do come back, Drumpfie will pull the rug out from under them again anyway. Can’t win for losing.
'Scuse me while I drag myself up off the floor. Can’t see, my eyes are streaming, and my sides hurt from laughing…
“AHCA/BRCA is a fucking nightmare, so let’s do something worse!”
Maybe one of the fireworks will go astray, hit the WH and Trump will be killed…hey but I’m not inciting any violence against him…it’s more like just a warning…because I care about him…yeah yeah that’s the ticket, a warning because I give a shit…er I mean I care!.
TPM, please stop calling it a health care bill. That’s just the GOP label for it. Stop abetting them.
I agree. We shouldn’t fall into the trap so many journalists do of assuming that Congress “doing something” is a good thing. It’s better to do nothing than to do bad things.
Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE proceed with this brilliant idea Donnie Baby!!!
It is so BRILLIANT.
Get rid of existing coverage, (or keep it in place as your minions slowly gut it behind the scenes and then claim it is all the fault of the Dems).
And then let us find ourselves next spring and summer as you and your band of remorseless, vile, soul lacking minions in Congress desperately scramble to come up with a plan they have been unable to craft for eight years and still cannot create even when they hold full control of Congress, the Courts and the White House.
Go ahead folks…let us wander into the 2018 mid terms and see who gets blamed. In the past, you could count on public ignorance to do your work and then blame it on Dems. But this time around, as you are learning every time you raise your heads above the parapet at a public hearing, your own voters are onto you. They know more about what your bills will do than YOU do and if you try and BS them…they will tell you flat out they know what you are doing.
Go Ahead
Repeal now, leaving tens of millions of needy Americans twisting in the wind … cuz Donnie and his ultra-wealthy buddies want their hyuuuuuge tax breaks, dammit!
“If the replacement part is too difficult for Republicans to get together, then let’s go back and take care of the first step of repeal.”
Logic in the age of Trump. Which means no logic at all.
Sorry kid, you’ll have to stay in the womb another year or so, until we find out whether your birth will be covered or not by DonnieDontCare…
An interesting twist on why some Republicans aren’t scared shitless about the demolition of Medicaid: “of course it doesn’t mean me.”
My brother lives in an assisted care facility. He’s medically fragile and depends entirely on SS and Medicare for life support. He has no other income or savings. 99% of his condition is self-inflicted. He’s a big Trump fan who’s convinced that “those people” are somehow screwing him out of what’s rightfully his and making our country not-great. He’s not concerned about squeezing Medicaid out of existence because that will only affect the unworthy, who are clearly not him. He will be “grandfathered in” because…? His reasons don’t make a lot of sense, but Fox and Drudge have told him it’s all OK, the right people like him will be just fine. He believes it.
When he loses his spot in that facility it won’t take long for him to die, so I guess the R’s are right. This will save us all kinds of money which can then be diverted to tax cuts for the fabulously wealthy. What could make us a greater country than that?
In all seriousness, how does “repeal now replace later” work? I can’t imagine that “repeal” would take us back to pre-Obamacare business-as-usual because insurance companies don’t have their premiums and deductibles and coverages tuned for that situation. Would they scramble to recalculate their whole model knowing that “replace” might be months away and would throw their business into disarray again? If I ran the insurance world I’d be especially risk-averse if this was the plan. I’d charge way more than usual to handle the risk of what “replace” might be and to recoup the cost of all the extra administrative overhead that the exercise had put my business through. Even if I put on a Republican hat and imagine that we want the strong economy that we can have if only we ignore the undeserving poor, I don’t see how this can work.
Before Obamacare, some of the money the states sent to the feds came back to them to be used for state legislated health care programs. After Obamacare, the feds kept that money and applied it to the programs mandated by the new health scheme which covered things previously covered by the state. All was well. If Obamacare is repealed, that previous source of funding won’t be returned to the states and the feds won’t be covering those programs. All will not be well.
Maybe this is what will make Trump even happier: the feds get to keep all the money (for redistribution to their friends) and don’t have to contribute to health care at all. So what if the states’ money that is needed at home is never returned? Making America Great Again!
Will be making a new phone call to update prior calls to our state’s one Republican Senator: don’t support “repeal only.”
So desperate they’re now admitting they want to kill people
Well, maybe, maybe not. the ACA is big enough and complicated enough that no exactly knows what a simple repeal bill would do. In theory, it would return things exactly back to the situation before enactment. But other laws have been written since then, and regulations issued, at both the state and the federal level. Most of those laws and regulations take the ACA as their starting point, so no one knows what the landscape would look like. Oh, and since trump hasn’t been staffing federal agencies, there’s not really anyone in a position to figure out what things would look like, or what addition regulations might be needed. Leading to years of litigation among all parties affected. Which would likely result iun an even faster death spiral for group as well as individual markets.
But wait: the uncertainty and the death spiral would also mean a serious contraction in the insurance industry, quite possibly triggering a recession…
Does McTurtle need 60 votes to repeal? This has a deleterious impact on tax revenue.
. A smidgen of uplifting news…any smackdown of FL Gov is good.
It’s an AP article.
This is Trump being the brilliant all time most fabulous negotiator he is. Senate Republicans, at least, would never in a million years actually pass a straight repeal. But Trump thinks he has Democrats over a barrel, threatening to burn down the shop. He doesn’t even realize he already owns the shop. Ridiculous and obscene.