GOP to Introduce Health Care Replacement This Week
Source: NBC News
Republicans will introduce their much-awaited bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act this week, a senior House Republican aide told NBC News. "We are now at the culmination of a years-long process to keep our promise to the American people," Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan's spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, told NBC News.
The plan's anticipated release follows a series of town hall meetings across the country that saw angry constituents berating Republican lawmakers over health care policy. Some Republican senators have already threatened to vote it against it, including Rand Paul of Kentucky, who lambasted the bill-writing process as overly secretive.
"The only copy we've seen is from the media," Paul said last week. "Now we're told it's being classified and the hearing is like a security clearance hearing you have to have security clearance and permission and have to be on the committee to see the bill."
A draft bill obtained by NBC News two weeks ago indicated that Republicans intend to roll back much of President Barack Obama's signature achievement, replacing it with tax credits and state grants.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-to-introduce-health-care-replacement-this-week/ar-AAnPZCS?li=BBnb7Kz
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)fyi
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Reporter - "How is this plan supposed to work and be better than the ACA, since it cuts benefits and uses the savings to fund tax cuts to the rich?"
Republican - "Well, you know, uh, Freedom."
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)How could they be allowed to shred the lifeline for millions?
Am hoping for a miracle on this one.
longship
(40,416 posts)Matthew28
(1,798 posts)Their idea of replacement is rich man healthcare and nothing for anyone else.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)I want them to have to get there health coverage the same away they want everyone else has to have it this country, you live in state and when it runs out of money from block grants, go to the fucking end of the line and you only fucking get $4500 for a deductible and have to pay out of pocket $80,000 for a heart attack or cardiac arrest.
FU you and your tax credits, they don't mean shit, and your block grants is like throwing the baby out with the bath water
Fuck them
MedusaX
(1,129 posts)Rather convenient that the super top secret healthcare miracle plan and the
New Improved Not A Muslim Ban EO are in the media spotlight
...while apparently some DHS employees were told Friday afternoon that they needed to "work from home" on Monday (tomorrow)....
I wonder what they will find When they return on Tuesday...
big blue tarps & construction similar to that found in the State Department office areas??
Pink slips in their mailboxes?
Surely there will be calls & inquiries regarding the "travel" Ban EO when it rolls out tomorrow...
Will Bannon & Kushner be answering the phones?
Or just letting them all go to straight to a "voice mailbox that has not been set up yet" ?
dhill926
(16,370 posts)as not wanting your fucking replacement...
videohead5
(2,181 posts)It will have a very hard time getting through the senate.Chuck Todd said it was DOA.
still_one
(92,433 posts)videohead5
(2,181 posts)Will take it apart and tell everyone how many people will lose their healthcare.ads on tv saying millions will lose their health insurance.a bunch of Republicans are already nervous.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)I've heard about 1-3 Senators that might not vote for it but under pressure how much you wanna bet they cave.
They'll have hell to pay for it though in some cases
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)I think I understand the root cause of their problem: they WERE going to rename "Obamacare" to "Trumpcare" and it took them six weeks to figure out it's not actually called that.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)we must label it what it is immediately.
We need some talented artists that can bring this some attention. Don T - don't care
Don'TCare
lastlib
(23,311 posts)LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)Call it Don T. Care.
They will own it.
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)Naa...It is Don T. Care
bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)Here's your $10 a month voucher
Use it or lose it!
Bayard
(22,172 posts)Again, these two things will be the only big news stories. The Russian investigations will get buried. Just as planned.
lark
(23,160 posts)50,000,000 ways to kill our workers. (to the tune of 50 Ways to Kill your Lover by Paul Simon).
This tune will be appearing in Washington DC from it's undisclosed basement hiding place sometime. It's been hiding for 7 years so who knows when it will actually appear?
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Horrifying. At least in MN we can surely get by with state grants for our healthcare plans (or we would find the $$ somehow, I have a feeling). Most states aren't so lucky though.
This is just awful.
Tanuki
(14,923 posts)to see it? This seems an obvious abuse of the classification process.