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SFnomad

(3,473 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:38 PM Mar 2017

And the hits (to RyanCare) keep on coming ....

AMA Joins Increasingly Loud Chorus Of Health Groups Opposing GOP Repeal Bill
Yesterday it was the hospitals. Today it’s the doctors.

The American Medical Association just announced that it “cannot support” the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The AMA announced its opposition in a letter Wednesday morning, hours before two House committees were set to mark up repeal legislation. It comes one day after a slew of patient advocacy and health industry groups including the American Hospital Association announced they were against the House GOP bill ― and it’s one more sign of political trouble for the Republican repeal effort.

“While we agree that there are problems with the ACA that must be addressed, we cannot support the AHCA as drafted because of the expected decline in health insurance coverage and the potential harm it would cause to vulnerable patient populations,” AMA chief executive James Madara said in the letter.

I think that the only people that are for "Repeal and Decimate" are people with Obama Derangement Syndrome.

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And the hits (to RyanCare) keep on coming .... (Original Post) SFnomad Mar 2017 OP

Everyone Can Protest All The Want. Almost All GOP Legislators Will Vote For It Anyway. TheMastersNemesis Mar 2017 #1

No reason for any GOP representative to care what their constituents think, at all. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #5

1000+ Bengus81 Mar 2017 #7

Their certainly not fighting over how to make it better.... Bengus81 Mar 2017 #6

When the AMA says it sucks,, IT SUCKS! panader0 Mar 2017 #2

They're bragging about it being 70 pages... Blanks Mar 2017 #3

one congressman on NPR was stationed g that the actual text is Exilednight Mar 2017 #4

He just printed it single-sided in large text crazylikafox Mar 2017 #10

k and r...nt Stuart G Mar 2017 #8

yes - but they are the people who vote... lame54 Mar 2017 #9

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)

1. Everyone Can Protest All The Want. Almost All GOP Legislators Will Vote For It Anyway.

Reply to SFnomad (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:40 PM

Mar 2017

And Trump's multi billionaire cabinet will support it too. I wish the damned thing were dead, but not sure it will be.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

5. No reason for any GOP representative to care what their constituents think, at all.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:45 PM

Mar 2017

A. they cant lose to a democrat in most cases due to unconstitutional gerrymandering done by their party

B. no other republican can run against them without money and the Koch bros wont be allowing that unless said candidate swears allegiance to taking all benefits from all working people

And, after the GOP takes all of our benefits and protections, some of the people hurting the most, Trump voters, will not blame the GOP, they will blame us.

I wish I was wrong about this, I really do, but I am not.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)

7. 1000+

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:48 PM

Mar 2017

As we say in Kansas,Jesus Christ himself could run for office as a Dem and LOSE.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)

6. Their certainly not fighting over how to make it better....

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:46 PM

Mar 2017

Their fighting over how to throw it in the dumpster by Friday and then work on a plan for some day down the line.

panader0

(25,816 posts)

2. When the AMA says it sucks,, IT SUCKS!

Reply to SFnomad (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:40 PM

Mar 2017

Blanks

(4,835 posts)

3. They're bragging about it being 70 pages...

Reply to SFnomad (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:43 PM

Mar 2017

Whereas Obamacare was over 1000 pages.

Geez. You'd think they'd learn that cranking out a couple of pages isn't going to cover all of the exceptions that need to be made.

Where were they when the 'Muslim ban' was rolled out?