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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun May 7, 2017, 08:41 PM May 2017

As some Republicans rush to defend House health bill, Senate GOP warily pauses

Several Republican leaders on Sunday formed a political barricade around the health-care bill that narrowly passed the House last week, defending how the legislation would change insurance coverage for people with preexisting illness or injury.

But while House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Trump administration officials rallied around the House legislation after intense criticism from Democrats, who say the bill would strip protections, moderate Senate Republicans were outright dismissive.

“The House bill is not going to come before us,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that the Senate would be “starting from scratch.”

The Republican split-screen on health care revealed the frothing, nerve-inducing debate within the party about how to gut aspects of the Affordable Care Act, which became law in 2010 and whose demise has been a promise by the Republican Party to its conservative base.

A growing number of Senate Republicans are recasting President Trump’s Rose Garden celebration after the House vote as a mere starting point because of anxiety over how the House bill would affect Medicaid recipients in their states, insurance costs for people with conditions such as diabetes or cancer, or the breadth of health benefits in states that would be able to jettison current federal insurance requirements.

Yet Trump and many of his allies continue to doggedly talk up the House bill, resisting the suggestion that the Senate could discard major items in the legislation, which was crafted with inputs from the hard-line House Freedom Caucus.

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As some Republicans rush to defend House health bill, Senate GOP warily pauses (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
The Senate isn't gerrymanderd like the House. Xolodno May 2017 #1

Xolodno

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1. The Senate isn't gerrymanderd like the House.
Sun May 7, 2017, 10:21 PM
May 2017

Of course they are going to be more receptive. Even that asshole Mitch has to be aware that killing Kynect could eventually kill him. The Senate requires popular vote of the state, not a district.

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