GOP Health Push Hits More Snags

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Source: WSJ

WASHINGTON—Senate Republican leaders appeared to face a nearly insurmountable path to reviving their repeal of the Affordable Care Act, after Sen. Susan Collins said she couldn’t envision voting for the bill and fellow GOP Sen. Rand Paul outlined tough demands for his support.

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Republican senators are making a last-ditch attempt to pass legislation striking much of the 2010 health law popularly known as Obamacare, under parliamentary rules that put a Saturday deadline on any such action being done with only GOP votes. Sunday night, the bill’s authors circulated changes to the legislation that experts said appeared largely designed to win over more conservative lawmakers.

The bill by Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina would set “block grants” of federal funding for each state to use for health care, including the Medicaid program for the poor. The revised text of the bill gives states broad authority to make changes to coverage mandated under the ACA, and they no longer must seek a waiver to roll back some of those requirements, which was in the earlier text of the bill, health analysts reviewing the new bill said.

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Mr. Paul on Sunday set a high bar for his vote, saying on NBC that the block grants that Democrats and some centrist Republicans worry are too small were still too big for his liking.



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[Still In Wisconsin]

1. So in other words, they made it MEANER to try and appease Paul?

Sure, that makes sense.

[AgadorSparticus]

2. Yes. And then they will make it nicer to appease someone else

And then back to meaner. Etc.

[iluvtennis]

3. Don't trust Rand Paul. He has voiced descent in the past votes, only to vote yes in the end.

[SergeStorms]

4. Exactly....

he voted no the last time because he already knew they didn't have enough votes going in to the roll call. This time? Not so much. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he voted for it, which is why the Democrats MUST make sure this P.O.S. bill never even comes up for a vote. They're going to have to filibuster the hell out of this thing, and by doing so, go a long way in assuring a Democratic sweep in the 2018 mid-terms. Kick some elephant ass, Dems!

[cstanleytech]

5. Exactly, I suspect he is trying to weaken the opposition to the bill by making them think

that they can relax.

[BigmanPigman]

6. AGREE 1,000,000,000 %

Please stay vigilant and keep calling Congress [phone] This is an emergency and the GOP will stop at nothing to pass their HELLCARE bill! The mega rich donors are pressuring the GOP for a tax cut which they bribed the GOP for. They want a return from their million dollar investments. AND McConnell is evil, sneaky and must have a WIN, AT ALL COSTS!
Do not stop calling get until Oct 1st. PLEASE CALL, lives depend on it and I AM one of them...I am wearing thin and can not take their BS games when my health and finances are hanging on by a thin thread!

[msongs]

7. white supremacists will do anything to eliminate legacies of the black president. anything nt

[ucrdem]

9. You speak the truth.

Anyway K'n'R.

[Warpy]

8. Lets hope it springs a leak and sinks with no survivors.

Facing defeat will do that party a world of good. Being thrown out of power for a couple of decades would do them even more good. Let the racketeers die off and the billionaires bankrupt themselves on lost causes.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Wide open evil. Republicans are beyond hiding their vile agendas.

You knew it was coming. McCain comes out with a conscience-driven no...early. Attention whore Cruz publicly begs for more $ be thrown his way for his "yes". Rand withholds a yes unless more people can be murdered. Collins' and Murkowski's States are going to get sweetened pot deals. Donors openly blackmail them all.
All within a few days of Drippingly Foul MCConnell and Lying his Brains Out of his Eyes Cassidy's 50 vote deadline.

They aren't even attempting to hide their pure evil. It's all been bared. They don't care how it looks. No pretense.
Nothing matters now involving any human traits of any inkling of decency.
Only putrid hate, vengeful bigotry, racism and hideous anti humanity. For even the Stupid to see clearly. (Not that clarity ever affects the Stupid)

And what can/will be done???
I have no fucking clue anymore.
Basically a thimble-ful of wretched stench covered men are destroying our nation in plain, open evil view.
Beyond insane.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Should be titled: "GOP Death and Misery Push Hits More Snags"

I smell the stench of their hubris three states away, in one that needs the ACA bolstered, not destroyed.

[OliverQ]

12. Well they're bribing Collins with 43% more money to Maine, so maybe she will flip.

Should be illegal to bribe Congress members to vote for a bill.