People should be very worried. They seem intent on a scorched earth policy as regards anything associated with Obama, just so they can say We Repealed Obamacare. Knowing the ignorance of their voters, they might well calculate that they could cut off their healthcare and those idiots would still vote for them.

Just lost my job and great health care and am headed for Obamacare, with three pre-conditions, here in Cali.

who will work against anything they try.

I hope you get work soon. Best of luck.

But, yeah. They are trying to pass single payer here.

do you even think the 30-some member teabaggers ("Freedom Caucus&quot in the House will go along with that new, less draconian result? The Senate took the House bill (that lost most if not all the House moderates - which have less members than the teabaggers and their co-chair eventually resigned as a chair due to the push-back to his "compromise&quot , declared it DOA, and reworked it.

You do know that whatever the Senate "passes" has to go back to the House, right?

Am not saying that this is impossible but right now, it is difficult because they are so hyper-partisan within their own ranks.

House Reps did. Which one of us seriously thought they would vote through what they did ? If they can do it there, the Senate Reps can do it too. It's too important to think they wouldn't try, and in fact you can see they clearly are trying.

but that doesn't automatically make their different bills "the law'. They have to reconcile them and then go back through the vote process again.... And the timeframe for them to do that has grown short considering how they wanted it all done before their August recess (and they WILL be taking their August recess in order to come back in September with just a few weeks to get the 2018 appropriations taken care of or the government will shut down - let alone deal with the debt ceiling that has "gone missing" out of the media as "an issue", like they made it an issue multiple times under Obama). They will be on "vacation" that July 4th week as it is (which is why Turtle wanted their bill done before then).

There is a significant difference between the House and Senate in terms of numbers of members in each party and how much leeway they have for passing legislation without Democratic party votes. The House could lose no more than 25 House members for their AHCA in order to get to 217 and they were able to whittle it down to 20 to get enough margin to barely pass it. The Senate threshold is much closer and even if their version passes somehow, it would probably be "too liberal" for the teabaggers in the House, and the moderates in the House feeling even MORE pressure through Town Halls, may throw up their hands entirely (especially after what happened with MacArthur and his screw job of the rest of the GOP swing district moderates).

For "P.R." purposes, each chamber could claim to have "passed a repeal/replace bill" and also claim "but the Democrats blocked it", banking on their base not knowing how a bill becomes the law.

In the boiling water they are going to take years to wind down Medicaid expansion.it could take 5-7 years.they think this is going work to keep their fannies out of trouble but when millions of people know they are still going to lose their health insurance down the road they will still be in big trouble.the CBO score will tell the tale.

shut up and die.