Senate Republicans suffered a dramatic failure early Friday in their bid to advance a scaled-back plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, throwing into question whether they can actually repeal the 2010 health law.This was the GOP's third attempt to repeal Obamacare. There was the
Their latest effort to redraw the ACA failed after Sen. John McCain’s decision to side with two other Republicans against President Trump and GOP leaders. The Arizona Republican, diagnosed with brain cancer last week, returned to Washington on Tuesday and delivered a stirring address calling for a bipartisan approach to overhauling the ACA, while criticizing the process that produced the current legislation.
It was a speech that laid the groundwork for Friday’s dramatic vote.
The vote was 49 to 51 — all 48 members of the Democratic caucus joined with McCain and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to block the legislation.
- Better Care Reconciliation Act - Penned by Pat Toomey and a secret cabal of rich white guys, this would have left 22 million Americans uninsured by 2026.
- Obamacare Repeal And Reconciliation Act - This one is estimated to leave 32 million Americans uninsured.
- Healthcare Freedom Act - This was the so called "skinny" repeal that would have left only 16 million Americans uninsured.
Toomey's disappointed in last night's vote and did so with some bigly spin of his own:
I am disappointed with this setback on efforts to fix our broken health care system. For the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians suffering from the higher costs and fewer choices caused by Obamacare’s collapse, Congress must not give up on repealing and replacing the failed health care law.Not collapsing, Senator. Not failed, Senator. Sabotaged:
Unable — at least so far — to kill the Affordable Care Act outright, the Trump administration has conducted a sustained war of attrition designed to inflict fatal damage on Obamacare.Sound familiar, Pat?
This war, often operating below the radar, entails the use of a quintessentially conservative strategy, and the cooperation of Congressional Republicans. In a way, it’s pretty simple: You cut the budget, impose debilitating regulations, track the subsequent missteps and then attack the program as a failure.
The US needs single payer just like the UK with the Government having the absolute authority for Medical decisions. Even as the Democrats just vote Present for single payer
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The US Government should be able to stop parents from get treatment for their child even if the Government is not paying for it.
All Children belong to the Government.
Same people who said Michael Schiavo had the absolute authority for Terri Schiavo's Medical decisions now say Charlie Gard parents have no authority for His Medical decisions.
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/25/the-sad-story-of-charlie-gard-shows-theres-no-limit-to-right-wing-political-vampirism/
@redsteeze Reason Dems weren't asked about Charlie Gard is because every single journalist out there knows how bad their answer is.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/889493531278147586
Of course Dayvoe believes this should have been illegal.
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Another pair of non sequiturs from the troll. Good to know some things never change.
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