[Iran Press TV] US Senate Republican leaders have delayed the vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... until after next week's Fourth of July holiday due to a lack of party support.
The announcement made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday came as a setback to the Republicans to replace Obamacare, which according to the Congressional Budget Office would leave an estimated 22 million more people without health insurance by 2026.
"We are going to continue the discussions within our conference on the differences that we have that we’ll continue to try to litigate," McConnell told news hounds. "Consequently, we will not be on the bill this week but we are still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place."
It is "a big complicated bill, they’re hard to bring together and hard to pass," he added, describing Republicans as "optimistic that we’re going to get a result that’s better than the status quo."
The Republican bill is aimed at fulfilling President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the signature health insurance achievement of former President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... . Obamacare covers some 20 million Americans.
In the most contentious congressional vote of Trump's presidency last month, politicians voted 217 to 213 to pass the Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill.
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Poor timing or chutzpah redefined? You be the judge:
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According to the latest available census figures:
In 2015, the percentage of people without health insurance coverage for the entire calendar year was 9.1 percent, or 29.0 million, lower than the rate and number of uninsured in 2014 (10.4 percent or 33.0 million).
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Republicans replacement plan (which according to the CBO) would leave an estimated 22 million more without health insurance by 2026.
Does this mean that 22 million people would lose crappy health care insurance over the current estimate of 29 million uninsured? In other words, 51 million people would be uninsured? Are we back to where we started before the Dems started this costly albatross?
[PJMedia] On Tuesday, the conservative nonprofit Club for Growth issued a statement attacking the Senate Republicans' health care bill as "restoring," rather than repealing and replacing, Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The statement revealed how divided conservatives are on the legislation, with other conservative nonprofits tiptoeing around the issue. Obamacare was about centering power over the health care system in Washington. Congress, with its love for pork and fundraisers does not want to kill it
"For seven long years, Americans have waited for health care reform that would repeal the disaster that is Obamacare," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in the statement. "The Club for Growth and the American people took Republicans in Congress at their word when they promised to repeal every word -- 'root and branch' -- of Obamacare and replace it with a patient-centered approach to health care."
McIntosh attacked the legislation before the Senate, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, as a restoration, rather than a repeal, of Obamacare. "Only in Washington does repeal translate to restore," he said. "Because that's exactly what the Senate GOP healthcare bill does: it restores Obamacare. And while it's hard to imagine, in some ways the Senate's legislation would make our nation's failing healthcare system worse."
He further added that the Senate "has produced Obamacare-lite." The Club for Growth president highlighted four key problems in the bill.
First, he noted that it is a $292 billion tax increase over the House version, H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act of 2017. He also argued that the bill "punts" the difficult task of Medicaid reforms, which "will bankrupt future generations due to Senate Republicans' lack of political courage." McIntosh also said the bill also would leave untouched Obamacare's most onerous regulations, which drove up premiums and deductibles. Finally, he attacked the bill for creating Republican mandates and penalties.
McIntosh was not the only conservative to attack the bill. "We're disappointed lawmakers haven't done more to improve health care, but we remain committed to working with them to make progress," Freedom Partners Vice President of Policy Nathan Nascimento told PJ Media. "We worked with the House to improve the AHCA, and we'll continue to work with the Senate to improve its legislation. But, regardless of the final text, we will still have a lot of work to do to fix healthcare."
Nascimento's comments revealed a conservative nonprofit stuck between the Scylla of endorsing a flawed piece of legislation and the Charybdis of stopping all possible improvements to health care. As the saying goes, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." I'll just settle for government taking as many of its nose pickers out of health care as possible
Tensions are high on the issues. At least one conservative donor threatened to remove funding for Republicans in Congress if they fail to act on health care and taxes. Speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., outside the Koch donor network's gathering, Texas-based donor Doug Deason said the "Dallas piggy bank" is closed until Republicans pass meaningful reform.
"Get Obamacare repealed and replaced, get tax reform passed," Deason said. "You control the Senate. You control the House. You have the presidency. There's no reason you can't get this done. Get it done and we'll open it back up."
Yahoo News reported that billionaire conservatives warned "of a rapidly shrinking window to push their agenda through Congress and get legislation to President Donald Trump to sign into law." The most important issues for the Koch network (of which Freedom Partners and the larger Americans for Prosperity are a part) were to overhaul the tax code and repeal and replace Obamacare.
"If they don't make good on these promises ... there are going to be consequences, and quite frankly there should be," said Sean Lansing, chief operating officer for Americans for Prosperity (AFP).
"There is urgency," AFP President Tim Phillips explained. "We believe we have a window of about 12 months to get as much of it accomplished as possible before the 2018 elections grind policy to a halt." Only the threat of losing seats might get these parasites moving
[Free Beacon] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said on Tuesday that Republicans were dishonoring God with their efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
Pelosi invoked God to appeal to Republicans across the aisle.
"I know my colleagues are people of faith,"Pelosi said. "They tell us that all the time."
"So, this is God's creation, we have a real responsibility to it," she continued. "To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us."
Pelosi said Republicans were ignoring "those needs," and implored her colleagues to "look into their hearts."
"So from our faith, from our responsibility and community in our country to acknowledging that we are all one family in our country, it is very important that our colleagues not only read the bill, but examine their consciences and look into their hearts, and maybe look into the eyes of these families, and maybe make a decision in favor of what is right," she said.
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Is Pelosi a big Churchgoer ? Does she have a Prayer Life? Catholic or Protestant? Is she known for any particular Piety ?
Are matters of faith a big priority of hers?
Or is she on her knees a lot?
Nancy's track record with God is well known, is it? About as good as that of Al Franken then? I hear he's on his knees a lot.
Posted by: Big Platypus8146 ||
06/28/2017 5:57 Comments ||
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The only thing she worships is government money. Like all Democrats.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
06/28/2017 6:05 Comments ||
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Her bible is right there next to her Margaret Sanger Award.
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The only way to explain some of Pelosi's comments are assume she's getting her cues from a carry around computer that's running a random bullshit generator. Just stringing impressive words together and firing them off. God told her this, did he?
Posted by: ed in texas ||
06/28/2017 8:50 Comments ||
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Moloch?
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/28/2017 8:51 Comments ||
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Re #1: Nancy is nominally a Catholic. Yet she consistently and constantly supports abortion - i.e., the murder of unborn babies. I am amazed that she has not been eexcommunicated already.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
06/28/2017 8:51 Comments ||
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And Planned Abortionhood doesn't, Nancy?
Posted by: Jack Salami ||
06/28/2017 9:27 Comments ||
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The number of religious folks convinced by an Atheist's opinion of God's likes and dislikes has got to be really close to 0.
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Minority Leader Pelosi is doing that politician thing wherein she says things to elicit a certain reaction from her target audience, not because she believes it. She is no doubt unaware of how many atheists live in the right... and how many religious people on the right do not see God's will the way she does.
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What about us taxpayers, Nancy? Did your deity tell you taxpayers are a bottomless money pit?
Posted by: Bobby ||
06/28/2017 13:49 Comments ||
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"Amendment? No, Nancy, assessment.
Let's start with this strange term, 'investment.'
The robbing, the robing...."
"Don't waste your time probing.
I'm named in God's last will and testament."
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[Iran Press TV] US Senate Republican leaders have delayed the vote on repealing and replacing 
[PJMedia] On Tuesday, the conservative nonprofit Club for Growth issued a statement attacking the Senate Republicans' health care bill as "restoring," rather than repealing and replacing, Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The statement revealed how divided conservatives are on the legislation, with other conservative nonprofits tiptoeing around the issue.
[Free Beacon] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said on Tuesday that Republicans were dishonoring God with their efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
