BREAKING: McConnell's Promise Nets Susan Collins' Tax Bill Vote
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published DECEMBER 18, 2017 4:24 PM
In a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reiterated his promise to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to hold votes this week on three policies to mitigate the damage the tax bill would do to the nation’s health insurance markets. Collins originally said her vote for the tax bill—which is scheduled to happen either Tuesday or Wednesday—would depend on whether the other policies become law. But the vote on the continuing resolution to fund the government and the bills McConnell plans to attach to it, won’t happen until later in the week, making her promise Monday to support the tax bill a giant leap of faith.
“We must pass a routine waiver to avoid unacceptable cuts in Medicare funding and other vital programs,” McConnell said, referring to Congress’ PAYGO law that unless waived would trigger hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to federal programs due to the tax bill’s $1 trillion-plus price tag.
“And of particular importance,” he continued, “faced with the continued failure of Obamacare to keep health insurance affordable for working Americans, we must take this opportunity to pass bipartisan solutions that will help stabilize collapsing health insurance markets and lower premiums for individuals and families across the country.”
McConnell is presumably referring to two health policies Collins demanded in exchange for her vote on the tax bill—one to restore government subsidies to insurance companies that Trump cut off earlier this year, and the other to set up a temporary federal reinsurance program.
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I got a bridge.......................and we the public are paying for your health care and Collins health care, you and your klepto fascist party are taking 53 billion out of the market, do you really think that your fucking party is going to give that back.
She is asking for "temporary reinsurance"
temporay reinsuarnce
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/18061
You have fucking right wing states asshole that haven't paid one fucking dime into the reinsurance plans, and you think that this will placate the situation----FUCK YOU and FUCK YOU Collins
You presently have a fucking lobbyists over in the HHS, running that agency, that you fucking confirmed, right along with Collins, Murkowski, Flake, Corker that is trying with all of her fucking might to gut this Medicare and Medicaid and the ACA
So again FUCK YOU, FUCK of all of you and the horse you rode in on
you fucking voted to take 43 billion of health care mandate money out of the tax law, to hand over 414.5 billion to corporations, foreign investors taking jobs out of the country, and to have some other crony in your klepto caucus sell off public land to companies that think there is no climate change in Alaska or around the planet, I guess you haven't read the pentagon report about them having to harden naval bases, and when you fuckers passed this legislation. did you by chance take a look at the stock market----------yesterday ----------it fell, today it went up so far just 16 points on the ponzi scheme board, the standard and poors is in the red, and nasdaq is in the red
Hell I thought happy days were here again----------------------------didn't you and you fucking klepto team make that promise -------------------well didn't you
Your so full of shit you don't know what you believe anymore and no one else your a flip flopper
