Senate Heads Toward a Health Care Showdown Vote Tuesday

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WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders, trying to keep alive their flagging effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, are barreling toward a showdown vote Tuesday to begin debate on repealing the health law, but senators have yet to be told precisely what legislation they will even be debating.

Apparently short of votes even to begin that process, President Trump ratcheted up pressure for Republican senators to get on board, criticizing them for inaction and warning that they risked betraying seven years worth of promises to gut the health law and revamp it if they did not.

“Remember ‘repeal and replace,’ ‘repeal and replace’ — they kept saying it over and over again,” Mr. Trump said at the White House, flanked by people he said had been victims of what he called the “disaster known as Obamacare.”

“Every Republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law, but so far, Senate Republicans have not done their job in ending the Obamacare nightmare,” the president added.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/politics/senate-health-bill-obamacare-repeal-and-replace-trump-mcconnell.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Isn't 60 votes needed for most of it?

[ffr]

2. Contacted my senators, asking them to vote Nay.

Only took about a minute to do and I cannot afford to have the GOP, republicans, tRump, or whatever you want to call these elected officials, to take away my ACA coverage.

If it means something to you (those reading), Google your state senators and tell them to vote against Mitch McConnell's dreadful tRumpcare bill.


PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE.