Republicans still short of votes to pass U.S. healthcare overhaul

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By Richard Cowan and David Morgan at Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-idUSKBN17Y21W?il=0

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But Republican leaders are struggling to balance the concerns of moderates, who want to protect those with pre-existing medical conditions from being shut out or penalized by insurers, and of conservatives who want to ease what they see as Obamacare's heavy burden on the economy.

Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who heads the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus that helped block passage of the first healthcare bill, said Republicans were still "a handful of votes away."

The current bill would allow states to opt out of Obamacare provisions that force insurers to charge sick and healthy people the same rates. That is seen as a concession to the Freedom Caucus, which has endorsed the new measure.

But Trump insisted in an interview this week that the protections for those with pre-existing conditions would remain.


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I hope someone is making note of who supports kiling their constituents so it can

be used in the next election.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. "heavy burden on the economy"

Interesting those "freedom" morons can't generate enough evidence of this phantom burden that even other R's won't buy in!
I wonder why!
Pretty obvious
The tea party idiots (an idiot by a different name is still an idiot) can't come up with a shred of evidence that there is an economic negative
Their objection is made up

[CupcakeQueen]

3. I read yesterday it was killed or something because of 22 no votes

Is it not dead yet?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. The Republicans are divided on this issue and this is wonderful.

This division forces the moderate R's to work with the Democrats in order to get anything passed.

Stay strong, Democrats!