Failure – you mean this kind of failure
Troika Face of Failure (House, White House, Senate: All GOP-run)
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and
supposedly for ALL Americans spoke in the Roosevelt Room and said: “I am
disappointed in the demise of the Senate bill. Now I plan to just let Obamacare
fail; it will be a lot easier. I think we’re probably in that position where
we’ll let Obamacare fail,” adding: “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to
own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let
Obamacare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us.”
Then Trump is his routine fashion said: “I blame the demise of a plan to rewrite the
ACA on Democrats, and a few Republicans,” Then he suggested that the drive to
overhaul the law was not completely over.
Ho Lee Shite…WTF
moment in World History for sure … Get this man out of office ASAP.
These kind of comments have intensified the current
political uncertainty where GOP “leaders” (and I use that word loosely) were
debating what to do next, and they raised anxiety among insurers that must
commit to staying on the federal health exchange within a matter of weeks.
More statements from the GOP:
VP
Pence, speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual Retail Advocates
Summit said: “I challenge Congress to step up and
repeal the current law so that lawmakers can work on a new health-care plan
that will start with a clean slate.”
Sen.
Mitch “Failure” McConnell (R-KY) declared on the Senate floor:
“This doesn’t have to be the end of the story,” adding: “The Senate would next
take up a repeal of Obamacare combined with a stable two-year transition period.
President Barack Obama vetoed such a bill, but President Trump will sign it
now.” He then concluded with this zinger:
“I regret that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of Obamacare
will not be successful. We will now try a different way to bring the American
people relief from Obamacare.”
Double Ho Lee
Shite…
Sample
of Other Backlash:
Three centrist Republican senators: Susan Collins
(ME), Shelley Moore Capito (WV). and Lisa Murkowski (AK) — all now say they
would oppose any vote to proceed with an immediate repeal of the law w/o any
replacement.
Capito
said: “I did not come to Washington to hurt people. I will
only vote to proceed to repeal legislation if I am confident there is a
replacement plan that addresses my concerns.”
Collins
said
that she had urged Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to hold hearings in an attempt to fashion a new
legislative fix for the ACA, while leaving it in place in the meantime, adding: “We can’t just hope that we
will pass a replacement within the next two years. Repealing without a
replacement would create great uncertainty for individuals who rely on the ACA
and cause further turmoil in the insurance markets.”
B/L
(even if there is a bottom at all in this pile of GOP crap):
The opposing
pressures have left McConnell in a tough position as he has struggled to find a
solution, which is why he has now thrown out the idea of moving to an immediate
repeal.
(My emphasis added)
Abolishing several of Obamacare’s central pillars —
including the mandate that taxpayers buy coverage, federal subsidies for many
consumers’ premiums and Medicaid coverage for roughly 11 million Americans — could wreak havoc in the insurance market. A
Congressional Budget Office analysis in January estimated that premiums in the
individual insurance market would rise between 20 and 25 percent next year and
would roughly double by 2026.
At the same time, according to the CBO, the number of uninsured
would spike by 18 million next year and rise to 32 million by 2026.
“For insurers,
the worst possible outcome in this debate has always been a partial repeal with
no replacement, which is exactly what Congress is about to take
up,” said Larry Levitt, senior vice
president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation, in an email.
“Insurance companies would be on the hook for covering
people with preexisting conditions, but with no individual mandate or premium
subsidies to get healthy people to sign up as well.”
While pursuing an immediate repeal would please
conservatives, the fact that it lacks sufficient support leaves McConnell and
House Speaker Ryan with few good options except in a proverbial pickle.
What mess and the blame game is now in full swing - who gets hurt the most? Those most in need - not those in office.
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