Who Stopped the Republican Health Bill?

[elleng]

33 Republicans who would not budge from their decisions to vote “no” on the health care bill were key to causing its collapse. They can be divided into three broad categories:

The Times identified the 33 in a survey of representatives conducted in the days leading up to the scheduled vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/24/us/politics/republicans-opposed-health-care-bill.html?

[Freddie]

1. Wonder what the real number was

We'll never know, which is exactly why Ryan refused to call a vote. I'm thinking there would have been more "no" voted if they had voted. Knowing how unpopular this thing was, he didn't want our side to have pre-written campaign ads for next fall.
My congressperson, a "moderate" was one of the "no" votes per this article. We'll never know if he was going to bow to pressure or not.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Voted on or not

We need to make people remember in 2018 what they tried (and may try again) to pull- and why it failed

[beachbum bob]

2. no trumpcare bill was going to be passed...its all theater....to keep conning their

ignorant supporters


pissing off 100 million voters with trumpcare was not going to happen

[Kber]

3. So 15 hardliners, and 18 moderates or people worried that it reduced care / coverage

Neither group was, in itself, enough to scuttle the bill, but let's not give the "Freedom Caucus" 100% of the credit on this.

Also - let's give a little credit to the discipline of the democrats who made it clear that the GOP cound expect exactly zero democratic votes.

KBer

[BainsBane]

4. The citizens who organized through Indivisible

stopped it.

[Kber]

5. Yep!

[elleng]

6. Had a lot to do with it,

and must continue, on many/all other issues until they're totally SUNK.

[GulfCoast66]

7. President Obama

And the Democratic congress stopped it.

Thanks to the ACA and President Obama's actions and words a majority of Americans now consider health care a right. The conservatives just found that out but have yet to admit it.

[The Big Ragu]

8. "politics is local"

any congressman is listening to his constituents and more importantly the local "money men" who bring them to the dance.

Everyone know Trump is a trainwreck and his downfall with start from the bottom up.

[MiniMe]

10. The Tea Party, errr, the Freedom Caucus

The bill wasn't conservative enough for them, it didn't kill enough people