Plan C on Obamacare, Repeal Now, Replace Later, Has Collapsed

[herding cats]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama’s health law without a replacement — but that plan appeared also to collapse.

Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska immediately declared they could not vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement — enough to doom the effort before it could get any momentum.

“I did not come to Washington to hurt people,” Ms. Capito said in a statement. “I cannot vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan that addresses my concerns and the needs of West Virginians.”

Senator Rob Portman of Ohio hinted strongly that he too would oppose it.

The collapse of the Senate Republican health bill — and the failing struggle to find yet another alternative —highlighted a harsh reality for Senate Republicans: While Republican senators freely assailed the health law while Mr. Obama occupied the White House, they have so far not been able to come up with a workable plan to unwind it that would keep both moderate Republicans and conservatives on board.

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[hibbing]

1. I did not come to Washington to hurt people,

Uh..... it is what your party does. Perhaps you should rethink that.


Peace

[onit2day]

19. Your party ignores the will of the majority of

Americans who do not want Obamacare repealed. They want it fixed. Next is Medicare for all or single payer. Just ask the people not your paid supporters

[murielm99]

20. If you are a republican,

that is a lie.

It was not always this way. Before Gingrich, I used to have repubbie friends, and people I could get along with. Unless they tell me they are ashamed, I cannot be around them. It is sad. It is difficult. Our Civil War II has begun already.

[Sunlei]

2. Republicans Please quit your attempts to RUIN our ACA law 'regulated' insurance. IMPROVE ACA.

[Submariner]

16. If they do that, Obama's skin will still be Black

that is the enormous hurdle republicans have yet to overcome in this whole health care battle.

If only Obama was White, like Romney, who fashioned RomneyCare that is supported by the same republicans that hate it's twin brother (ACA) now.

[iluvtennis]

21. Now that's the truth. Thank you for keeping it real

[agtcovert]

3. I can't handle all this winning.

[lark]

4. Republicans -

the party of ineptitude, meanness, greed and treachery.

[lark]

5. That's because most of them truly don't want healthcare for workers or poor.

They don't want to spend $ on them. Instead, they want to take $ allocated for their healthcare and give it to rich. Since there are enough people who don't want a lot of their constituents dying due to lack of care, it looks like we dodged this bullet. However, the celebration could be very short lived. Drumpf could easily refuse to pay the subsidies and the ACA comes crashing down to the ground, and they will one and all say it's the Democrats fault. We need to be running ads about this!

[BigmanPigman]

6. The first three names were women who voted NO to repeal, then replace.

Why are women the ones who have a soul and a heart? Thirteen older, white men wrote their shitty bill without any input from a woman. HEY STUPID WHITE MEN....WAKE UP GOP! Women DO exist and have more medical needs than you. Oh, and by the way...we ARE the majority!!!!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The rest of the GOP women should be joining them

but they won't.

[IronLionZion]

10. Good, diversity should screw the Republicans

I would hope a few Republican women would look out for their female constituents even if their party wants to screw people over and create a permanent cheap labor class to widen the income gap as people are ruined by medical costs and fear.

Whenever the GOP spews too much racism, one of the few Latino or Black Republicans will sometimes speak out.

There are a disappointing number of Republican women on the wrong side of this too unfortunately.

[HockeyMom]

7. Women, with blood coming out of their wherevers,

are thwarting you, Donald. I guess you never learned your lesson decades ago as a young man? Maybe even REPUBLICAN Congressional Women are getting sick and tired of only being "tokens" on all male committees?

[avebury]

8. At what pont will the Republicans throw McConnell overboard? nt

[Kleveland]

15. Hopefully there is a fetid vat of pig shit large enough to throw him in somewhere!! n/t

[louis-t]

11. 'Repeal and replace later' was designed to further sabotage the ACA.

These thugs will end up leading from behind. They realize how unpopular they are, they realize they have no chance of getting their shitty ideas passed.

[herding cats]

13. The biggest problem is they cannot merge their factions.

They have their religious conservative faction, their RW Libertarian faction, their Tea Party faction and their Corporate Republican faction. Then you have the ones like Collins who are decried as RINOs but supported by their local voters.

The problem is there's just too much gap between what they stand for and too much rigidity in their stance for movement. At least not on this topic.

It'll be interesting to see how they do on tax reform.

[LuckyLib]

22. And logical areas to join together in, you know, "compromise" just is never on the Repug agenda.

[cstanleytech]

12. My guess is the new plan is to have Trump cut off the funding like he has been threatening to do

to kill it and let him take the flak since they know he is already unpopular and unlikely to win re election and then the varies Repugnants and their supporters will lie through their false teeth and claim that the Repugnants tried their best but it was doomed from the start and its all the Democrats fault anyway.

[Dopers_Greed]

14. This is going to be bad for us in the long run

They're going to do everything they can to kneecap the ACA, then when it finally collapses (because of them), they'll blame the Dems and say "hey we tried to repeal and replace it."

If repeal and/or replace would have passed, they'd have to own it.

[ailsagirl]

17. Unbelievable

This is what they spend their time doing-- this is what they're paid for

[BigmanPigman]

18. McCain, I am talking to YOU! Is this why you had your surgery NOW and not LATER?!