If you think Mitch McConnell (R) is not going to do anything to help kill AHCA

[CK_John]

you are foolish.

He is just working a deal with Trump and it will be voted on and signed before the media can tweet/print it.

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1. What's the ACL?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Anterior cruciate ligament, silly

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4. Heehee! But really, is that just a typo in the OP head?

[CK_John]

6. Changed OP.

[titaniumsalute]

3. McConnell can't work a deal

If it doesn't pass the senate...even at 51 votes...it will need to be amended to pass the senate. Then it must go back to the House for another vote which will probably not happen due to the HUGE pushback and tweaks the Senate would need to make to moderate the bill. AT this point Trump has not much influence.

[edhopper]

5. Reconciliation

will bring it back to the House bill.

[titaniumsalute]

7. No way

Won't happen.

That requires them to change nothing. I'll bet 10 Republican Senators would vote no on this bill as is.

[edhopper]

8. minor changes

still bad.

[titaniumsalute]

9. It won't be minor changes

AND any changes means they cannot use reconciliation.

Republicans’ vote to repeal Obamacare just blew up in their faces
Posted By: Katelyn Kivel May 4, 2017

New reports confirm that the Senate is refusing to even hold a vote on the Obamacare repeal bill the House just passed, killing it within hours of its passage.

Bloomberg is reporting that Senate Republicans will snub the U.S. House of Representatives’ version of the American Health Care Act, instead opting to write its own version with a 12-member working group. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who is considered one of the more moderate Republicans in the chamber, said she’s looking forward to writing up a completely different healthcare reform bill with “a clean slate.”

[edhopper]

10. That is what reconciliation is for

different versions of the bill.

[titaniumsalute]

11. But it is limited to budget bills

If they start tweaking anything to the House Bill like pre-existing conditions it will no longer fall into the category of reconciliation. Therefore it would not be filibuster-proof.

[edhopper]

12. Have you not noticed

how the rules no longer apply in this Congress.
They will just say it's a tax/spending bill and Bob's your uncle.