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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:09 AM Nov 2017

Murkowski backs repealing ObamaCare mandate in boost to tax reform

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Tuesday that she supports repealing ObamaCare's individual mandate, in what appeared to be a significant boost to the GOP tax bill that includes mandate repeal.

Murkowski, a key moderate swing vote, wrote in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that she supports giving people additional freedom by repealing the mandate, which requires people to have insurance or pay a fine.

"Repealing the individual mandate simply restores to people the freedom to choose," Murkowski wrote. "Nothing else about the structure of the ACA would be changed."


She contrasted the provision with GOP ObamaCare repeal bills earlier this year, which she said went too far by restructuring Medicaid and making other changes.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/361481-murkowski-supports-repealing-obamacare-mandate-in-boost-to-tax-reform


She has no fucking principles...................none, then she does and says this BS..........

"She said she worried that insurance is not affordable for some people and they are being fined for going without coverage by the mandate."

So if you gut the mandate there Murksowski, what do you think the premiums are going to do, go fucking down-----your a malignant narcissistic sociopath just like the orange hair buffoon in the WH, your just as dangerous has he is---------------look in the mirror there Murkowski, take a hard look at being a "death panel, for greed------FU

You fucking tax cut does not give enough money back to pay for the premiums if you make less than $75,000, your math does not work, and your CBO score said that 13 million human beings are going to be affected

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Murkowski backs repealing ObamaCare mandate in boost to tax reform (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2017 OP
And should people have the "freedom" to NOT CHOOSE to buy auto liability insurance? no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #1
She's at home with Alaskan constituents for a quiet holiday. yallerdawg Nov 2017 #2
"Nothing else about the structure of the ACA would be changed." Fullduplexxx Nov 2017 #3
The (R) next to the name means doing the wrong thing - always. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2017 #4
They bought her vote Zoonart Nov 2017 #5
Either stupid or a liar. nt Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #6
So remove the mandate yet... SHRED Nov 2017 #7
It doesn't. And that's the point. maxsolomon Nov 2017 #13
she's quite the hypocrite....but then again, she's a republican. spanone Nov 2017 #8
So much for ANY REPUBLICAN workinclasszero Nov 2017 #9
Murkowski Took the Bribe dlk Nov 2017 #10
Republicans always do workinclasszero Nov 2017 #14
So she can vote MFM008 Nov 2017 #11
Bingo. You nailed it. kysrsoze Nov 2017 #12

no_hypocrisy

(46,121 posts)
1. And should people have the "freedom" to NOT CHOOSE to buy auto liability insurance?
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:11 AM
Nov 2017

Should people have the "freedom" NOT TO CONTRIBUTE to Social Security?

To not pay their federal, state, and municipal taxes?

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. She's at home with Alaskan constituents for a quiet holiday.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:16 AM
Nov 2017

Let's reserve our judgment until after she gets back where she has saved our asses a couple times already.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
7. So remove the mandate yet...
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:47 AM
Nov 2017

...keep the pre-existing condition mandate on insurance companies?

How does that work without a dramatic rise in premiums for all?

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
13. It doesn't. And that's the point.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 12:50 PM
Nov 2017

Make coverage through the ACA so astronomically expensive that people have to abandon it.

Then you can point at the ACA and say it was fatally flawed from the beginning and needs to be put out of its misery, when in truth, you kneecapped it until it couldn't even crawl.

The Republican Way.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. So much for ANY REPUBLICAN
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:59 AM
Nov 2017

that you might think actually gives a damn about the average american citizen!

They sell out to the highest bidder EVERY f**king time!

She just needed the cover of this horrendous tax bill to help kill off the sick and poor!

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