White House expects vote on healthcare bill this week

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Mon May 1, 2017 | 9:18am EDT

Top White House officials on Monday said they expect a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to pass Republicans' latest plan to overhaul the nation's healthcare system.

"We're convinced we've got the votes," White House economic adviser Gary Cohn told CBS News. In a separate interview with the network, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said: "I think it will happen this week."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-idUSKBN17X1Q2?il=0

[still_one]

1. and we know that everything that the white house says is true

[still_one]

2. Here is the WSJ headline:

"Trump Pushes for Vote on Health Bill, but Hurdles Remain
The White House and top congressional Republicans are trying to build momentum for a health-care vote this week, but skepticism among centrist members of the party remains a stumbling block."

[BumRushDaShow]

3. There were already at least 6 moderate GOP members in the PA/NJ area

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who had come out against it according to local media. In fact, quite a few others outside of this area were also unimpressed -

Moderate House GOP Leader Says No to Zombie Trumpcare

By Ed Kilgore
April 25, 2017 4:08 pm

In an unsurprising development that nonetheless represents a heavy shoe dropping, Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania has made it known that he still doesn’t want anything to do with Zombie Trumpcare. Dent, a co-chair of the Tuesday Group (an assemblage of relatively moderate House Republicans), told the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein that his opposition to Trumpcare extends to the new plan worked out between members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and his fellow Tuesday Group co-chair Tom MacArthur. The changes from the original mainly involved provisions to let states move sicker folks into “high-risk pools” separate from the individual insurance markets everyone else is in, while offering less comprehensive health plans than Obamacare allowed, in an effort to lower premiums.

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It’s an easy guess that Dent’s position is more representative of Tuesday Group opinion than MacArthur’s, and if so, that means even if most of the House Freedom Caucus are onboard with Zombie Trumpcare, Republicans probably won’t have the votes to get it out of the House, much less the Senate.

Where does that leave the GOP on repealing and replacing Obamacare? Dent thinks it’s okay to wait:

Dent complained that, “too much of the conversation has been driven by arbitrary deadlines,” referring to the initial push to pass the legislation last month, on the seventh anniversary of Obamacare becoming law, and the talk of trying to get something done in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/moderate-house-gop-leader-says-no-to-zombie-trumpcare.html

[Hugin]

6. I like how the AHCA Trumpster fire has now been christened, "Zombie Trumpcare".

I believe this is how we should all begin referring to it. It's obvious they are trying to Gish Gallop it through before comment by the opposition or public scrutiny. Which, is a fairly common Trumpian strategy.

RESIST!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. The "Zombie" part is icing on that shit cake as it is!

[LeftInTX]

13. That was last week. They have another plan for this week.

As to what it is, I have no idea.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. The only thing that I think they changed on their last week's plan

(the article was from last Wed. so not even a full week) is that they were supposed to take the Congressional exemption off.

I.e., the only way the Teabagger caucus will accept this is if they allow states to opt-out of critical provisions, create the "risk pool" model, and kill Medicaid.... and the moderates fear the repercussions of doing that.

[Javaman]

4. as they tried repeatedly to repeal the ACA and failed when Obama was in office...

we will now have to deal with the idiots trying to repeatedly pass their version this pile of shit.

what was that saying about the definition of insanity?

[titaniumsalute]

5. The White House is engaging in the assumptive close

Just assume assume assume and maybe some of the holdouts will just fold and throw in the towel. That is what they are doing.

[Hugin]

9. "Assumptive Close"!

or Trumpsumptive Close. Yep, that is exactly what it is. Thanks for remembering the term for it, as I couldn't quite remember.

They are desperate to pass it and we aren't out of the woods yet. Even though Trump only last week said he wasn't going to pursue it. But, He'll sure as hell sign it if it lands on his desk.

[flamingdem]

8. That Brit pundit on msnbc was implying that the votes

might be there. I really hate to think so.

[turbinetree]

10. Think about this: This ass***(s) need something, anything,

to deflect his TREASON, he hasn't done one thing, except get a cabinet that is full of horseshit, and supreme court justice that is full of horseshit also, and now he is going to put some lady in at HHS that has been trying to gut and do wherever is possible to line her pockets with more f***ing hate, just like her time a Family Research Council ( what a name), you have to research to figure what a family is,

And then the country and the men and woman get this gem of right wing hypocrite:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/28/charmaine-yoest-assistant-secretary-of-public-affairs-hhs-237743

[dalton99a]

11. Proceed, assholes.

[padah513]

14. Yeah

Let em touch that third rail.

[riversedge]

12. ****** Call your member of Congress today! #resist

Now is the time to muster up-


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