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Originally posted by smlsig:
Taking a 30,000 ft view of this clusterf%$k makes me want to throw up.

Every republican ran on repeal and replace and they had almost 8 years to figure out how to do it.
Instead they just gave us lip service and failed to do their freakin' job!

JALLEN, with all due respect, I don't care how senior your senator might be they failed to follow through on their promise and for that they out to be fired on their next election cycle. It's time to hold their feet to the proverbial fire.

In what respect have they failed to follow through?

There are 100 of them, 100 of the most powerful egomaniacal men and women in the country, all under enormous pressures from every side. They hope to thread their way through the various issues and challenges adequately to be able to win re-election for the most part. Each has some level of ability to persuade but not control the others.

I submit it is not their fault that the voters have not given them a pat hand, sure and easy of winning. I submit they have been playing the hand that has been dealt as best they can. Moreover, the game is not over yet.

The same voters sent a majority of Representatives to office back in 2010 but for which this never would have happened at all. You were doubtless one of those voters, so by your logic, this is all your fault.

It may not happen this year. Look how long Congress argued back and forth over slavery. Look back to the battle over civil rights, prohibition. The system is set up to require that there be a broad consensus of view before anything too big can happen. If voters abandon the fight to repeal, it means they accept it, and will live with it. it has taken 7 years to get bare majority in the Senate. Anyone who knows these things knew it would take 60 votes to be sure of success. Why is this a surprise, or a disappointment? Reconciliation is complicated and very limiting, fraught with difficulties.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Reconciliation is complicated and very limiting, fraught with difficulties.

It is also a convenient parliamentary construct, designed as a work-around to the filibuster, the latter of which has no basis whatsoever in the Constitution.

51 votes. That's all it takes if someone had the balls to make the rule change.

-Rob

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Reconciliation is complicated and very limiting, fraught with difficulties.

It is also a convenient parliamentary construct, designed as a work-around to the filibuster, the latter of which has no basis whatsoever in the Constitution.

51 votes. That's all it takes if someone had the balls to make the rule change.

-Rob

Making the change doesn't take balls. Living with the result might.

Just like obama spent 100s of millions of dollars "selling" obamacare to the people, the Trump administration should start an advertising campaign educating the general population how bad obamacare actually is.

We need to shift as large a per centage of the population as we can to truly demand a full repeal.

^^^ ( I was referring to JALLEN's comment)

I will agree with you that "perhaps" they are not done with this effort but keep in mind that they have had 8 years to draft at least an outline of the legislation that would be needed and they failed to do that..Also the House has 435 members and they got something passed so why couldn't McConnell get 50 senators to get something passed. I'm sure you know that the real closed door work takes place in reconciliation and by that time it's just a footnote in history and the press has moved on to another crisis...

As far as the repeal of slavery goes and the time it took, I just turned 60 so I wasn't there then...

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Originally posted by sdy:
Just like obama spent 100s of millions of dollars "selling" obamacare to the people, the Trump administration should start an advertising campaign educating the general population how bad obamacare actually is.

We need to shift as large a per centage of the population as we can to truly demand a full repeal.

$100 million and it passed by one vote?

It's been argued and bitched about, coverages down, premiums up, you can't keep your doctor or plan, and repeal still needs selling, after 7 years?

Are people stupid?

Yes they are...

It remains an enormous lose-lose to do anything with it at all.

A full repeal without a replacement is a fantasy outcome, changing the thing slightly but keeping the gist of rest - whether fully repealed first or not - is a terrible outcome.

The is no possible scenario that involves messing with it that can actually be accomplished and also be considered a win that is actually conservative in any way.

Fail, fail, fail is what happens if they fuck with it at all. Wait and see.

Mayyyyyyyybe, if it fails on its own in its current form, will we have a decent chance.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Reconciliation is complicated and very limiting, fraught with difficulties.

It is also a convenient parliamentary construct, designed as a work-around to the filibuster, the latter of which has no basis whatsoever in the Constitution.

51 votes. That's all it takes if someone had the balls to make the rule change.

-Rob

Making the change doesn't take balls. Living with the result might.

Maybe Trump is following this thread?

We see a lot about how Republicans ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare.

Does anyone know of an article or report detailing which of the current senators are actually quoted as saying that in their campaign or rhetoric?

I haven't had a chance to research it.

Thanks.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Just like obama spent 100s of millions of dollars "selling" obamacare to the people, the Trump administration should start an advertising campaign educating the general population how bad obamacare actually is.

We need to shift as large a per centage of the population as we can to truly demand a full repeal.

Absolutely! Just like mikeyspizza said, get on prime time television and tell the masses the truth about all of it! Take the time to "try" to get people on our side. Air the bullshit and state facts.

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
We see a lot about how Republicans ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare.

Does anyone know of an article or report detailing which of the current senators are actually quoted as saying that in their campaign or rhetoric?

I haven't had a chance to research it.

Thanks.

My biggest beef is with how they slipped in "and replace" as if it were always a thing.

now that this has failed, I think that the republicans (or RINOS), need to focus on something else

let Obama care fail completely, and the republicans can claim it wasn't their fault, they didn't vote for it or modify it - they let it do what it was designed to do

we will end up back where we were 8 years ago with the feds out of the healthcare business

the markets will figure it out faster and better than the government

unbelievably (at least to me), the Repeal thing is DOA too.

http://hotair.com/archives/201...without-replacement/

Shelley Capito (R) Sen WV:




a good example of why we need a massive, brutal anti-obamacare campaign


people (even REPs) are acting like obamacare is an overall good thing

^^^ How does one Senator's comment to the press looong before the vote tell you that full repeal is DOA? Come to think of it, why are you letting an NPR prognostication (that's the fancy word for "guess") convince you that it's all over?

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Originally posted by sdy:
Senate bill is dead.

McConnell is now saying he will support Trump’s idea of passing clean repeal of Obamacare now and a replacement of Obamacare later

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...w-replacement-later/

If full repeal passes -

- Everyone will say the move was telegraphed when Trump said "this bill passes or I support full repeal", and

- The Dems will scream that the defections and the addition of Cruz' amendment were part of a set up so that the Dems would be portrayed as obstructionists (hah!) and the Reps could just steamroll OCare out of existence.

But first it has to pass.

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Originally posted by Veeper:

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
We see a lot about how Republicans ran on a promise to repeal Obamacare.

Does anyone know of an article or report detailing which of the current senators are actually quoted as saying that in their campaign or rhetoric?

I haven't had a chance to research it.

Thanks.

My biggest beef is with how they slipped in "and replace" as if it were always a thing.

That was discussed earlier in this thread. President Trump talked about "replace."

I always thought that he was holding himself open for a wide variety of reforms, including the free market.

I like the idea of repeal with a sunset but it seems to me that the sunset period should encourage the free market to reengage.

If they're going to throw money at something, I'd rather see it go to encouraging a free market while providing some mechanism for those who are ill to have reasonable, affordable access.

I am skeptical about many senators when one sees just how much money was spent by the health lobby. This LINK shows it by overall industry but breaks it down by companies as well.

Blue Cross, for instance, gave $3,730,000.00 in campaign contributions just this year according to the Center for Response Politics.

Huuum. Just what are they buying?

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Originally posted by sdy:
unbelievably (at least to me), the Repeal thing is DOA too.

http://hotair.com/archives/201...without-replacement/

Shelley Capito (R) Sen WV:



a good example of why we need a massive, brutal anti-obamacare campaign

people (even REPs) are acting like obamacare is an overall good thing

So... in December, 2015 she was in favor of a repeal bill... but now, a year and a half later, she has discovered how wonderful Obamacare is?

December 03, 2015:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito voted Friday for the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, a bill that repeals Obamacare.

“Americans deserve a health care system that works for them and Obamacare is not it. I have consistently voted to repeal and replace this disastrous health care law, and I am glad that a repeal bill will finally reach the president’s desk,’ Capito said in a statement. “This legislation will enable us to revisit the problems caused by Obamacare and replace them with reforms that provide quality, affordable care for all Americans.”

http://wvmetronews.com/2015/12...to-repeal-obamacare/

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and replace

There's your answer - and her out.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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and replace

There's your answer - and her out.

No, it's not.
The bill she voted for did not replace.

“This legislation will enable us to revisit the problems caused by Obamacare and replace them with reforms that provide quality, affordable care for all Americans.”

It would allow us to revisit the problems caused by Obamacare and replace them... later, in the future.
But she voted for the repeal.

Representative Mark Meadows making a move on Paul Ryan ?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...w-replacement-later/

House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is joining with President Donald J. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in pushing for Congress to send a clean repeal of Obamacare to President Trump’s desk now, and work on the replacement later.

Meadows, who is making the call in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, joins them as both Trump and McConnell called for clean repeal of Obamacare to go to Trump now and a replacement later after the Senate health bill failed late Monday. When Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Mike Lee (R-UT) came out against the bill—joining Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-ME)—Trump and McConnell called for clean repeal of Obamacare now then a bipartisan replacement plan later.

Meadows is joining the president and Senate Majority Leader, as House Speaker Paul Ryan—whose “American Health Care Act” approach that aimed to repeal and replace Obamacare in one fell swoop started this whole mess months ago—remains silent.

“The Senate should continue to negotiate on the replacement bill but at a minimum give President Trump the opportunity to sign into law something that Barack Obama vetoed,” Meadows told Breitbart News on Tuesday morning, referring to the 2015 bill that repeals Obamacare in its entirety. That bill passed both chambers of Congress and was vetoed by now former President Barack Obama.

Ryan remains silent on the matter.