New health deal falls flat with GOP
Source: The Hill
A bipartisan Senate deal that would extend critical ObamaCare payments to insurers for two years got the cold shoulder from Republicans on Tuesday, suggesting it faces a rocky path to become law.
The chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House dismissed the offering from Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) as an affront to GOP promises to repeal President Obamas signature legislation. Anything propping [ObamaCare] up is only saving what Republicans promised to dismantle, said Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), who leads a group of more than 150 conservatives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stopped short of promising to bring the bill to the floor, and while Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) offered some praise, not a single Senate GOP conservative offered strong public support for the compromise.
Senate Democrats, in contrast, hailed the deal, and pressed GOP leaders to quickly bring it to the floor. They also touted anti-sabotage measures they said they had included in the deal that would prevent President Trump from taking ObamaCare apart language that appeared aimed more at winning a messaging war over the health-care law than actually advancing a legislative compromise.
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Trump offered measured support for the compromise when he was asked about it during a press conference Tuesday with Greeces prime minister, calling it a short-term solution so that we dont have this very dangerous little period. But Trumps endorsement was hardly ringing, and it did not appear that Republicans were highly excited about the measure.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355917-new-health-deal-falls-flat-with-gop
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)for things like peoples premiums about to hit the roof.
joshdawg
(2,651 posts)They know that whatever is beneficial to almost all Americans is not in the republican's interest. The only people who agree with the republicans are the 1%ers. The 1%ers are not sensible folks. According to republicans, which include the 1%ers, health care is not a right, but a privilege. If you can afford health care insurance, more power to you; if not, YOYO.
thesquanderer
(11,991 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,663 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)It was too easy to run against anything, but now congress is showing everyone they are dysfunctional .
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The reality is that we only have to peel off about 20 - 30 GOP senators to make this happen. If we believe we can hold all 48 dems, we only really need about 10, unless the leadership blocks it.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Loyd
(309 posts)That's gotta be the problem for the Reptiles, right?
dlk
(11,576 posts)Of course, Senate Republicans gave a cold shoulder to the health care deal. Today's GOP doesn't believe in democracy or citizens joining together to enact legislation to improve Americans' lives. They are actively working toward an oligarchy, where a few extremely wealthy men can do whatever they please, free from any government interference, and everyone else is under their thumb. Their politicians are bought and paid for. Yes, this sounds dystopian but the evidence bears it out. To survive our country needs Democratic activism more than ever.
lark
(23,155 posts)Tax cuts for the rich are more important than any puny worker or poor persons' life, get with the program or the stock market would tank (yeah, like the rich will kill themselves too?) and rich people will become even less rich - the horrors!