GOP ACA Replacement Imminent....Predictions

[K1052]

House GOP meeting tomorrow morning to figure out WTF to do now.

 

[yllus]

What insane person would ever vote Republican after this display of carelessness about legislating responsibly? I've never even heard of something so insane happening in a country's parliament.

Vox - The Obamacare repeal debate is now a completely bonkers game of chicken

On Thursday evening, mere hours before the Senate is supposed to vote on a health care bill, the United States Capitol is in chaos.

This is what we actually know:

• Senate Republicans have still not released the actual text of whatever they will vote on at the end of their debate, probably Friday morning.
• Many Republican senators don’t want their bill, whatever it is, to actually become law. But they might still vote for it, because they want to pass some bill, any bill, and then open up negotiations with the House on a bigger health care package.
• There are rampant if unverifiable rumors that House Republicans are prepared to pass whatever the Senate sends them, perhaps as soon as Friday,
• Some senators are threatening not to vote for their own health care bill unless House Republicans assure them that they will not pass the Senate bill.

The real story is that Republicans, after seven years of promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, are unable to come up with a plan to actually do that, and it has come crashing down on them at the finish line. The Senate is hours away from voting on a bill, without knowing what it is or whether it could become federal law in a matter of hours.

One congressional staffer sent me an email with the subject line: “This is insane.”

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[Geekbabe]

Hang in there lady...hang in there. So very sad that thousands, if not millions, are in your situation and worried too.

I do think of the millions & advocate for them on Twitter @Geekbabe it is the only weapon I have left to fight with...my voice

 

[K1052]

Ryan has said they'll take it to conference but expects the Senate to act first in anything that results. Statement kind of implies a knife over the senate to craft a house acceptable bill or risk them passing the skinny.

Senators begin negotiations bent over with their pants around their ankles. Not sure this is an attractive option.

 

[theeedude]

Can the American people petition a court to commit Republican Senators to an mental hospital for observation as a danger to themselves and others?

 

[Puffnstuff]

House GOP meeting tomorrow morning to figure out WTF to do now.

The mainstream political parties are in disarray and do more bickering than anything else. They have prompted me to change my party affiliation to NPA which I accomplished earlier today.

 

[theeedude]

The mainstream political parties are in disarray and do more bickering than anything else. They have prompted me to change my party affiliation to NPA which I accomplished earlier today.

Republicans are in disarray because conservatism is a fraud.

 

[K1052]

McCain has called Ryan's statement "not sufficient".

 

[Jhhnn]

The mainstream political parties are in disarray and do more bickering than anything else. They have prompted me to change my party affiliation to NPA which I accomplished earlier today.

They're just as bad, obviously.

 

[K1052]

Supposedly Ryan has verbally promised not to pass skinny repeal and holdouts are flipping to yes.

 

[theeedude]

The House will be able to blackmail the Senate by threatening to make what the Senate voted for into law. Really, McConnell will be Ryan's bitch.

 

[Jhhnn]

Supposedly Ryan has verbally promised not to pass skinny repeal and holdouts are flipping to yes.

Who would actually believe him?

 

[Engineer]

The House will be able to blackmail the Senate by threatening to make what the Senate voted for into law. Really, McConnell will be Ryan's bitch.

I agree on this. The house will get what they want or will pass the skinny bill into law, torching the US healthcare and insurance system. The senate will have to bend over to the house and take it dry on this deal, and the house knows it.

 

[Paratus]

Officially the Health Care Freedom Act

Can't wait to be free from healthcare

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/27/trumpcare_live_blog_vote_a_rama_time.html

 

[K1052]

I'll bet bet it passes, the conference fails, Ryan says FU and passes the skinny which Trump signs into law having no idea what it does.

 

[Jhhnn]

I'll bet bet it passes, the conference fails, Ryan says FU and passes the skinny which Trump signs into law having no idea what it does.

They all know it's cornholio...

 

[K1052]

CBO says 15M more uninsured next year, 20% premium spike.

 

[Engineer]

I'll bet bet it passes, the conference fails, Ryan says FU and passes the skinny which Trump signs into law having no idea what it does.

Either that or the Senate GOP rushes in and passes the house version previously passed and sends it to Trump first, to avoid the skinny from being passed.

 

[UNCjigga]

CBO score already out (on skinny repeal?)... Only 16 million losing insurance now!

 

[K1052]

Either that or the Senate GOP rushes in and passes the house version previously passed and sends it to Trump first, to avoid the skinny from being passed.

The Medicaid cuts make that impossible

 

[theeedude]

7 years of railing on ACA, but now, Foxnews is not covering this prominently at all, not on their mobile page at all.

 

[K1052]

One idea I saw is if the skinny becomes law that blue states could pass mandates. The rest of the ACA taxes left intact so the money would flow.

States that don't pass a mandate would be totally fucked.

 

[Engineer]

"If the people who wrote this bill were proud of it, they wouldn’t be forcing this vote in the dead of night," Sen. Mitch McConnell said in 2009 when the Senate was voting on Obamacare.

Flash forward to tonight: Senate Republicans are meeting late to do the same thing with the "skinny repeal" health care bill. A vote is expected around midnight.

LOL.

 

[Paratus]

LOL.

If you strike down Obamacare it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

At least until the 2018 elections and Obamas legacy is the utter destruction of the Republican Party from backlash rather than Obamacare.

 

[K1052]

McCain reportedly had a angry conversation with the whip and spent his time nodding along to Schumer's speech. FWTIW