Orrin Hatch Says Senate Is Too Divided To Keep Up Healthcare Push

[Doug the Dem]

Source: HuffPo

07/31/2017 04:19 pm ET | Updated 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said on Monday that senators for now are too divided to keep working on healthcare overhaul legislation and that he and other senior Republicans will take that message to the White House.

President Donald Trump has been urging lawmakers not to drop the matter, despite a series of failed votes last week. “There’s just too much animosity and we’re too divided on healthcare,“ Hatch said in an interview with Reuters.

He said he would prefer Congress not appropriate cost-sharing subsidies that help make Obamacare plans affordable but added, “I think we’re going to have to do that.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orrin-hatch-says-senate-is-too-divided-to-keep-up-healthcare-push_us_597f8f6de4b0d6e28a0fae99?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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So even Booby Hatch can recognize reality.

[not fooled]

1. dump is just obsessed with this

Clearly he's suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome, among other maladies.

[Skittles]

2. in other words, repukes are unable to govern

fuck them

[reflection]

5. bingo. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

3. He said that McConnell, Ryan and himself will tell the Donald to get over it.

I'll believe that when I see it.

[OnDoutside]

6. If they don't, he will bring them down even faster.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Either the government subsidizes or enacts price controls.

The "industry" is NOT going to reduce prices on their own because even with large numbers of providers, they all eventually drift into a "price fixing" mode of operation, where all of them eventually charge up to the maximum allowed.

[harun]

8. Public option would be a good move, but Congress is trying to make too many donors happy.

Hence, it is stuck doing nothing, as usual.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I expect that even if we had a Public Option

they would refuse to negotiate drug prices like they do with Tricare - which was shown to produce obvious savings - at least $1.6 billion for just one fiscal year.

http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/what-it-means-and-why-it%E2%80%99s-important-military-cutting-costs-rx-negotiations-nacds-hails-find

It's always a battle somewhere.

[karynnj]

7. Note the last quoted paragraph

He is not our friend and actually aligned with Trump in wanting to kill the subsidies.

[thesquanderer]

11. Virtually all the republicans want to end those subsidies.

The difference is between those who accept them as necessary regardless, vs. those who don't. So he seems to be on the right side of that divide, among the Rs.

[Javaman]

10. in the coming weeks the orange menace will become more and more desperate.

it will be amusing and terrifying to watch.

[40RatRod]

12. This is all about one thing.

The Orange Emperor just has to get even with Obama for the White Correspondents Dinner comments. He will never let it go. If Obama started taking shots at him now, it would completely destroy him.