Senate Healthcare Bill

by **exploited** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:46 pm

If you had a parliamentary system, the first healthcare vote would be a vote of confidence, and Trump would no longer be able to form a government.

But you don't because the Founding Fathers were retards.

by **spacemonkey** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:21 am

by **Kane** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:34 pm

by **Spider** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:25 pm

It's not damned. Vote is delayed a least a week for McCain. They're already reigniting the campaign to discredit the CBO. They couldn't care less what the CEO's think. This is straight ideology, not considered planning. Now they can't even get the vote through without avoiding the CBO report, as was previously the plan.

Not that the CBO still matters, apparently.

by **Kane** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:15 pm

It's not ideology at all man. If it were they'd be doing repeal and replace later - this is a hodgepodge of political bullshit to serve as talking points for their midterms. They're keeping pre-existing, reducing medicaid dramatically, offering subsidies, etc. This is as far away from ideology as they get - that's why Rand Paul was straight up "No."

And no, the bill isn't dead or anything. I just thought that the insurers coming out against it like that was particularly alarming. They know that what's being pressed will result in broken markets reminiscent of pre-Obamacare.

by **spacemonkey** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:14 am

Replacing a turd with a turd. That is the reality of the situation.

by **ToddStarnes** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:50 am

by **Kane** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:24 am

This whole thing is going down in a huge ball of fire. This is awesome. I am happy that I was wrong.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/s ... -only-bill

Simply repealing now and replacing later has already lost two GOP votes. And ultimately for good reason - repealing it now could create an insane amount of instability in the markets until there's more clarity from the WH and Congress on funding ACA until another plan is developed. And simply what the new bill would look like - just look at the GOP attempting to insert an INSANE amount of uncertainty into 1/6 of the US economy.