Orrin Hatch on TrumpCare Bill: "Everybody knows thats going to fail"

[brooklynite]

The latest Republican effort to unwind the Affordable Care Act collapsed Monday as a third GOP senator announced her opposition and left the proposal short of the votes needed to pass.

While one top Republican senator held out the possibility that the Senate might still vote on the bill, others accepted the reality that the push had sputtered out after Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) joined two of her colleagues in formal opposition.

“Everybody knows that’s going to fail,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), who led a raucous, five-hour hearing on the bill Monday afternoon. “You don’t have one Democrat vote for it. So it’s going to fail.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/new-version-of-health-care-bill-will-help-alaska-and-maine--home-of-two-holdout-senators/2017/09/25/24697f62-a188-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?utm_term=.d2048c95b6e3

[SamKnause]

1. Shut up Orrin.

No one cares what you think or what you have to say.

Shut up Orrin.

No one wants the Graham/Cassidy bill shoved down their throats.

Shut up Orrin.

P.S. Orrin told the protesters at the 'health care' hearing to shut up.

[countingbluecars]

2. I hope there are more than 3 no votes.

I don't trust Rand Paul. He may want that shock appeal of voting yes at the last minute.

[brooklynite]

3. Like he did on the last Senate Healthcare Bill?

[Control-Z]

4. I'm hoping McTurtle doesn't bring it to vote.

He doesn't want to embarrass himself again, or more than he already has, so he won't bring it up for vote if he doesn't have the numbers. I hope.