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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,191 posts) Thu Jun 8, 2017, 08:55 PM Jun 2017

Parliamentarian threatens deadly blow to GOP healthcare bill

The Senate parliamentarian has warned Republicans that a key provision in their healthcare reform bill related to abortion is unlikely to be allowed, raising a serious threat to the legislation.

The parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has flagged language that would bar people from using new refundable tax credits for private insurance plans that cover abortion, according to Senate sources.

If Republicans are forced to strip the so-called Hyde language from the legislation, which essentially bars federal funds from being used to pay for abortions unless to save the life of a mother or in cases of rape and incest, it may doom the bill.

MacDonough declined to comment for this article.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/337060-parliamentarian-threatens-deadly-blow-to-gop-healthcare-bill

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Parliamentarian threatens deadly blow to GOP healthcare bill (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 OP

Reconciliation is a difficult process Gothmog Jun 2017 #1

'Thugs Can't Figure Out How to Govern! DarthDem Jun 2017 #2

Fucking insane Freethinker65 Jun 2017 #3

This just doesn't feel like SCVDem Jun 2017 #4

Uh-oh Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2017 #5

'In other words, a provision passed under reconciliation cannot be primarily oriented toward elleng Jun 2017 #6

How in the ever-loving F*** could anyone prove that you 'used' your 'tax credit' on insurance ... mr_lebowski Jun 2017 #7

Gothmog

(145,553 posts)

1. Reconciliation is a difficult process

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Thu Jun 8, 2017, 08:57 PM

Jun 2017

DarthDem

(5,256 posts)

2. 'Thugs Can't Figure Out How to Govern!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:01 PM

Jun 2017

Sad!

Freethinker65

(10,048 posts)

3. Fucking insane

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Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:17 PM

Jun 2017

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)

4. This just doesn't feel like

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2017, 10:05 PM

Jun 2017

a free country anymore.

Everyone has a reason to dictate your life for you.

Just fuck off!

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,437 posts)

5. Uh-oh

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Thu Jun 8, 2017, 10:09 PM

Jun 2017

Sincerely wish her well and that she is hopefully polishing her resume for when McConnell decides to get a new parliamentarian (lackey).

elleng

(131,098 posts)

6. 'In other words, a provision passed under reconciliation cannot be primarily oriented toward

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2017, 10:38 PM

Jun 2017

making policy change instead of impacting the budget. Arguably, attaching Hyde language to the refundable tax credits is designed more to shape abortion policy than affect how much money is spent to subsidize healthcare coverage.'

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

7. How in the ever-loving F*** could anyone prove that you 'used' your 'tax credit' on insurance ...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jun 8, 2017, 11:28 PM

Jun 2017

I mean, you get a tax credit, you receive a check, and put the $$$ in your bank account, along w/the rest of your money. What are they going to say ... NOBODY who receives such a check is 'allowed' to buy insurance that just so happens ... to cover abortions?

What is that for ... time-wise? FOREVER?

And even if they COULD, what the hell kinda BS is that anyway? If you get a tax credit ... it's YOUR MONEY to use AS YOU SO DESIRE. How the F*** could it be remotely 'legal' for the government to dictate that you cannot use YOUR MONEY ... to buy a healthcare plan that suits your needs?

In any case, you wouldn't be 'using federal funds for abortion' (which is what Hyde says isn't supposed to happen), you'd be using it to buy insurance ... that may 'so happen' ... to provide abortion coverage. And that's NOT the govt's business, FFS.

SO MUCH BULLSHIT ...

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