GOP senator: Repealing ObamaCare 'has nothing to do with politics'
Source: The Hill
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 09/24/17 10:53 AM EDT
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said Sunday the GOP push to get an ObamaCare repeal bill passed has nothing to do with politics.
"This has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with donors." Gardner said on CBS's "Face The Nation," when asked about whether there was a rush to pass the ObamaCare repeal bill for political and not substantive reasons.
"It has everything to do with the people of this country who are suffering each and every day under a health care bill that is failing to meet their needs, that's bankrupting them."
Gardner said the U.S. has a healthcare system right now that has led to higher costs and fewer choices. "It's not working. That's the reason why we need new policy. That's what this fight is about," he said. "It's to make sure that the American people are better off." .
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/352131-gop-senator-on-obamacare-repeal-bill-this-isnt-about-politics
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)just a few days ago:
WASHINGTON As more than 40 subdued Republican senators lunched on Chick-fil-A at a closed-door session last week, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado painted a dire picture for his colleagues. Campaign fund-raising was drying up, he said, because of widespread disappointment among donors over the inability of the Republican Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act or do much of anything else.
Mr. Gardner is in charge of his partys midterm re-election push, and he warned that donors of all stripes were refusing to contribute another penny until the struggling majority produced some concrete results.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029626281
VA4progress
(3 posts)Thanks to the series of tubes, however, we can fact check them in real time!
bitterross
(4,066 posts)One of the two of them has to be correct. The two opinions are mutually exclusive though.
Freethinker65
(9,932 posts)Everything to do with hatred of Obama and tax breaks for GOP donors
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)The free market is all holy, you know.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,153 posts)How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy
Expanded health insurance helped cut the number of filings by half
https://www.consumerreports.org/personal-bankruptcy/how-the-aca-drove-down-personal-bankruptcy/
TryLogic
(1,721 posts)When it comes to health care policy, Republicans are stupid as a rock.
Man_Bear_Pig
(89 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)It has 0% to do with people, health, affordability, justice, patriotism....
wolfie001
(2,131 posts)I'm shocked.....yawn
not fooled
(5,791 posts)Of course it's all about the donors. Maybe he is playing word games in order to classify "fellating donors" as non-political.
The U.S. is immensely better under the ACA, as demonstrated not only by studies showing all the benefits that have accrued to the insured, but also by the numerous drastic negative consequences to health care that would result from the GOPee bill. Even dimwits who watch faux state, if polled on the actual policy without the name attached, that they support many of the provisions.
If pukes had properly implemented the ACA in red states, and if faux hadn't lied to millions, the ACA would be sailing along with massive support. As it is, despite all the negative propaganda thrown at it, support is growing. And I'm for Medicare for all but don't want to wreck what we have now, when so many 'Muricans are propagandized to resist single payer. More and more are coming on board as the predatory behavior of insurers and drug companies becomes increasingly apparent.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)all took years to tweak.
Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)it's not a bill. It's the law of the land.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)Obama said he always chooses better.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)For our elected representative to lie to us. They are well practiced at it. I dont know why anyone would believe anything these braying jackasses on the right have to say.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)davekriss
(4,608 posts)He either is wholly delusional and lives in a different universe, lying through his teeth, or he forgot to actually read the bill and understand its consequences for the rank and file. States can opt out of pre-existing protections. States can allow insurance companies to jack up premiums after you get sick (metastatic cancer? You will be free to pay $146,000 per year in premiums). It takes away subsidies, leaving everyone in the individual market to make a "choice" to pay huge monthly premiums or get sick and die quietly. It instantly ends Medicaid as we know. This bill, and those that support it, are abominations to human kind.