Senate health care bill in jeopardy after devastating CBO report
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) The Senate Republican health care bill teetered on the edge of collapse Monday evening after the Congressional Budget Office released a devastating report on its impact and multiple Republicans announced they would not vote to advance the legislation
The mood was tense and chaotic on Capitol Hill moments after the non-partisan agency predicted that the Republican proposal would result in 22 million more people becoming uninsured by 2026 years than under Obamacare.
Senate Republicans, many of whom are still undecided on whether to vote for the bill later this week, struggled to defend the legislation to mobs of reporters who flocked to them for initial reactions.
In a particularly ominous sign for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has decided to move ahead with a vote later this week despite widespread reservations among his colleagues, it was unclear whether he would even have the needed votes to clear an initial procedural hurdle.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/26/politics/senate-health-care-bill-in-jeopardy-after-devastating-cbo-report/index.html
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)healthcare. Figures. More WH BS.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)no DEED
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)Cadfael
(1,299 posts)Now is not the time to let our guard down.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...and all the moderates, satisfied, will leap back on board.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)CBO is devastating. I don't think small changes will work. But we will see.
As before, if McConnell can't get it passed, no vote at all..
still_one
(92,364 posts)They will take the CBO report for the ACA out of context, and ignore the fact that most of their estimates were right on, and only highlight where the estimates were wrong.
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/cbos-obamacare-predictions-how-accurate/
Tom Price, the HHS, has already started that talking point that the CBO report is not accurate. It is a LIE of course, and will be exploited by the republicans
However, the the AMA, Nurses, AARP, and a lot of other organizations are speaking out loud and clear how bad it is, and urging people to call their representatives to tell them NOT to vote for this monstrous bill. I hope that puts enough pressure that it works.
hibbing
(10,107 posts)alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...as The Onion explained, the main reason Republicans are conflicted about AHCA is that while they all want poor people to die, they also want to prolong their suffering.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)scipan
(2,353 posts)Kablooie
(18,638 posts)McConnell is a horrible person but he's not stupid.
Of course he knew this kind of CBO report was right around the corner and he knew the reaction it would generate.
Either he has some new trick up his sleeve to still get it passed or he wants it to fail.
We'll see later this week.
If it fails, it's part of a bigger plan and we'll just have to wait to see what it is.
Habibi
(3,598 posts)"CBO: Senate Health Bill Reduces Premiums, Deficit, Middle Class Taxes"
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Other turtles have told me so.
FigTree
(347 posts)joshdawg
(2,651 posts)the republican congressvermin, led by mcturtle, will always claim it is a left-wing operation and therefore wrong.
Anyone believing anything the republicans, especially mcturtle, say should seek mental health.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)When the rates quintuple for that age group?
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Think of all the jobs they'll create and how they'll pay huge wages to workers!!!!
Pffftttt....tinkle down at it's best and this is before Trump gets to the other huge tax cut for those same people!