Republicans rush Obamacare repeal-and-replace through House committees
Source: Yahoo News
House Republicans continued to push their controversial bill to repeal and replace Obamacare through two committees Wednesday evening, as angry Democrats sought to delay the votes as long as possible.
Republicans on the Committee on Ways and Means voted down Democrats’ numerous amendments, one by one, and ignored their repeated complaints that the majority was rushing through a vote to change the nation’s health care system without first receiving an estimate of its cost and impact from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
... Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, replied that the CBO score would be out early next week before the full House voted on the legislation.
... Though Republicans were speeding through the bill’s initial hurdles in the House, their caucus is far from unified on the legislation. The conservative “Freedom Caucus” objects to the tax credits in the bill, calling them a new “entitlement,” and is opposed to the temporary continuation of expanded Medicaid coverage. On the Senate side, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has called the House bill “Obamacare Lite” and said it would be dead on arrival in his chamber. Moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said it would not be “received well” in the Senate and, in an interview with Yahoo News’ Katie Couric on Wednesday, urged her counterparts in the House to slow down.
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Why rush? The more time people have to learn about and appreciate the benefits of saving up in Health Savings Accounts, the more support for it will grow {sarcasm}
Anyway, interesting some of the amendments Democrats are offering.
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