Senate Republicans Are Trying To Keep You In The Dark About Obamacare Repeal

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Huffington Post

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) lit into some her Republican colleagues on Thursday for writing legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act behind closed doors and without formal hearings in order to rush a floor vote and pass legislation along party lines.

“We have no idea what’s being proposed,” McCaskill said. “There’s a group of guys in a back room somewhere that are making these decisions. … We’re not even gonna have a hearing on a bill that impacts one-sixth of our economy. We’re not gonna have an opportunity to offer a single amendment.”

McCaskill happens to be right. Ripping the guts out of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, and putting a new coverage system in place would be every bit as consequential as she described. Health care really does account for one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

And if the new health care legislation ends up looking like the American Health Care Act, the Republican bill that the House of Representatives passed in early May, it could easily affect health insurance arrangements for the majority of Americans ― most obviously, by depriving 23 million people of coverage altogether, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office.

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1. they are keeping democratic senators in the dark too.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. The major Cabel News Channels are all in on this

blackout.

[bdamomma]

3. This is going to be bad.

there will be consequences for them to pay if people do not have healthcare, all those red states are going to get hit bad, or everyone will get hit hard.

People will not tolerate this feels like a pressure cooker.