New health deal falls flat with GOP
Source: The Hill
A bipartisan Senate deal that would extend critical ObamaCare payments to insurers for two years got the cold shoulder from Republicans on Tuesday, suggesting it faces a rocky path to become law.
The chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House dismissed the offering from Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) as an affront to GOP promises to repeal President Obama’s signature legislation. “Anything propping [ObamaCare] up is only saving what Republicans promised to dismantle,” said Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), who leads a group of more than 150 conservatives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stopped short of promising to bring the bill to the floor, and while Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) offered some praise, not a single Senate GOP conservative offered strong public support for the compromise.
Senate Democrats, in contrast, hailed the deal, and pressed GOP leaders to quickly bring it to the floor. They also touted “anti-sabotage” measures they said they had included in the deal that would prevent President Trump from taking ObamaCare apart — language that appeared aimed more at winning a messaging war over the health-care law than actually advancing a legislative compromise.
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Trump offered measured support for the compromise when he was asked about it during a press conference Tuesday with Greece’s prime minister, calling it “a short-term solution so that we don’t have this very dangerous little period.” But Trump’s endorsement was hardly ringing, and it did not appear that Republicans were highly excited about the measure.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355917-new-health-deal-falls-flat-with-gop
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They know that whatever is beneficial to almost all Americans is not in the republican's interest. The only people who agree with the republicans are the 1%ers. The 1%ers are not sensible folks. According to republicans, which include the 1%ers, health care is not a right, but a privilege. If you can afford health care insurance, more power to you; if not, YOYO.
Tax cuts for the rich are more important than any puny worker or poor persons' life, get with the program or the stock market would tank (yeah, like the rich will kill themselves too?) and rich people will become even less rich - the horrors!
