Well since it's Rand Paul I'm hardly surprised. Part of me is wondering however now if they are short a lot more votes than they've been letting on.
It's interesting to see Rand Paul doing the 'shameless lying' thing, only the other way around. He doesn't want to vote for this bill because it would crater health care in his state but instead of arguing that way he's trying to say it doesn't go far enough. lol.
It was rumored for the last one that somewhere around eight senators wanted to vote no but since McCain did they didn't have to. I have no idea if that's true or not, but if it is then I can't imagine they feel substantially different about this bill.
I don't know that Rand Paul doesn't actually believe that it's not enough of a repeal.
Dems: "This bill goes too far!"
Rand: "This bill doesn't go too far enough!"
I don't know that Rand Paul doesn't actually believe that it's not enough of a repeal.
Dems: "This bill goes too far!"
Rand: "This bill doesn't go too far enough!"
The Republican elites will never suffer from these policies, so I'm not sure what your point is there. I'm talking about the average idiots that are owning themselves on Facebook and Twitter.
If Republicanism is the disease, Democrats are the immune system that's too weak to fight it off. We need to ask what's wrong with our immune system.
The problem with this is that our healthcare system today under the ACA already kills tons of people, what makes you think that killing more will help? When people are crushed by society, whether it's health care or falling though some other part of the tattered social net, they don't smack their foreheads and start voting for Democrats. They become dislocated from politics and don't vote at all. Look at the 2016 election. The story wasn't how many votes Trump got, it's how FEW votes Clinton got. It's insane to hope for this bill because you think it will hasten some social shift to liberalism, it absolutely won't.
Meh. He's an ophthalmologist (not a knock to them in general..). Who knows if he would even take medicaid, many don't.That's the Teahadist in him. Crazy thing is that he's a physician. One would think that in a state that was a poster child for medicaid expansion as a doctor he would would welcome the reimbursement.
Would that be constitutional? When California passed stricter emission standards it was held that their stricter then federal standards was legal. I don't see how the federal government could bar states from creating their own health care system.
it's one of those times when "State's rights" don't matter, see?
Meh. He's an ophthalmologist (not a knock to them in general..). Who knows if he would even take medicaid, many don't.
Why GOP Healthcare Plans are so Bad....
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-health-care-plans-bad-110056282.html
Notice the Koch mentions in the story. $400 million in donations at stake.
It's called ideology over reality.That's the Teahadist in him. Crazy thing is that he's a physician. One would think that in a state that was a poster child for medicaid expansion as a doctor he would would welcome the reimbursement.
It remains to be seen if Murkowski will be swayed by this approach. She openly rebuffed a previous payoff attempt on the basis that it was bad for the country and would, eventually, be bad for Alaska too.
She owes the GOP leadership nothing, isn't up until 2022, received considerable local acclaim for rejecting the last proposal, the bill still has stuff she doesn't like (defunding PP), and to give in now would require a near total reversal of her stated positions. I don't think it's impossible she would flip it just doesn't look super likely.
I'm getting this bad feeling this version will pass. As for Murkowski:
Option #1) She votes for the bill, gets in good with McConnell and the POTUS, gets to tell her constituents just how hard she is fighting for them, gets plum committee assignments and more pork to make her constituents even happier and reestablishes her Republican bona fides without having to actually change anything in her state
Option #2) She votes against the bill, continues to piss off her party, gets blamed by the party for any rising health care costs in her state, and gets primaried at election time (and didn't she actually get primaried the last time and have to run as a write-in candidate?) and gets basically the exact same deal for her state.
Gee, I wonder which option she'll take. We'll see...
It seems that several republican governors aren't quite onboard with this plan. I will not support anyone who votes in favor of this bill.OMG Pence is teaming up with LePage in a bid to pressure Collins. You know the nutzo governor that she could quite likely end up running to oust from office.
Politics. How does it work?
OMG Pence is teaming up with LePage in a bid to pressure Collins. You know the nutzo governor that she could quite likely end up running to oust from office.
Politics. How does it work?
McCain is officially a hard no now, issued official statement. Calls for bipartisan solution reached through the regular process.
Good for him. He's on borrowed time at this point and has zero need to preserve political capital. He's not up for reelection. Go out a hero and not a villain.