McCain will flip. The bullshit Homeland Security Committee hearing on healthcare as well as the Arizona governor coming out in favor of this will push McCain to the yes camp. I'm guessing that this things passes this time. GOP and T-Rump desperate to get this dung on the books.
I don't think so. I think what we are going to find is that almost no republican will vote yes on this bill if they think it actually has a chance to pass. What they want is to be able to walk the tightrope of being able to vote yes on the bill and being able to blame others for it not passing. What they don't want is to have to actually own it, which is what happens if it passes. It is much better to vote no on it, and be able to claim that there was something wrong with this particular bill and that is why they didn't vote for it. I expect that it will pick up some unpopular rider before the process is over. Then you will hear a bunch of Republicans say they can't vote yes on this because of that rider, but they would certainly vote yes on a repeal bill that didn't include such an unpopular item on it.
Then Congress will be to busy to get around to healthcare until the spring. Then, when their base has forgotten the excuses used on this vote, we will repeat the same process, with a new unpopular rider that keeps it from being a Yes vote for just enough to make it fail. Repeat as necessary until after the midterms. Then they just hope that enough Dems get voted in to block anything they propose and then they have their excuse back for not getting anything done.
I don't think so. I think what we are going to find is that almost no republican will vote yes on this bill if they think it actually has a chance to pass.
I don't think so. I think what we are going to find is that almost no republican will vote yes on this bill if they think it actually has a chance to pass. What they want is to be able to walk the tightrope of being able to vote yes on the bill and being able to blame others for it not passing. What they don't want is to have to actually own it, which is what happens if it passes. It is much better to vote no on it, and be able to claim that there was something wrong with this particular bill and that is why they didn't vote for it. I expect that it will pick up some unpopular rider before the process is over. Then you will hear a bunch of Republicans say they can't vote yes on this because of that rider, but they would certainly vote yes on a repeal bill that didn't include such an unpopular item on it.
Then Congress will be to busy to get around to healthcare until the spring. Then, when their base has forgotten the excuses used on this vote, we will repeat the same process, with a new unpopular rider that keeps it from being a Yes vote for just enough to make it fail. Repeat as necessary until after the midterms. Then they just hope that enough Dems get voted in to block anything they propose and then they have their excuse back for not getting anything done.
So again we now have a political party trying to remake 1/6th of the national economy without any indication of their bill's effects because they think the analysis of those effects will be so bad that no one will want to pass it. Whether or not it succeeds that is monstrous.
It also makes me laugh how many times conservatives tried to bring up that (false) Pelosi quote that Congress had to pass it to see what was in it. It's obvious now that conservatives never cared about that, and were more than willing to do exactly what they complained about as soon as they were able.
Sixty-four percent of voters across the ideological spectrum disapprove of Republican ideas to replace Obamacare, while just 25 percent are in favor of the legislation presented thus far.
As for outright repeal, only 22 percent of voters surveyed say President Donald Trump and the GOP should repeal the entirety of the Affordable Care Act. Forty percent are in favor of repealing parts of Obamacare, while 33 percent do not want any repeals at all.
Trump has indicated he's 100% behind this bill. Remember a few weeks back when he made literally a single bipartisan statement and everyone decided this was the 'New Trump' who wasn't going to try and govern from the extreme right anymore?
Hope we all remember that next time.
Medicaid expansion dies in all variants of this proposed change.
The boldness of the plan — and the extent to which it would free states from the ACA’s rules — has startled even some Republicans in recent days. “It’s not about health policy any more,” said one former senior GOP congressional staffer. “This is about, in the Senate particularly, they need a vote. They were getting their rear ends hammered by the president and their base. It’s about, ‘Are we winners or losers?’ ”
Let the winners have their cake. God knows they love to eat it.http://wapo.st/2fArlaL?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.dd3d21792bcb
They literally do not care what it does, at all.
Trump just wants to sign stuff, anything really. I thought that then and I think it now.
It's hilarious that he's tweeting Grahm-Cassidy is a "great bill" and everybody knows that he has zero idea what it does. Just like all the previous tries on healthcare mustered by the GOP
Objectively G-C is a blind roll of the dice with 1/5th the US economy. All the coverage shows that even the Senate really doesn't know what it does or what the impacts will be but they have to vote for it because it's the last try with reconciliation....regardless of the policy. People should let that sink in for a minute. Many in the GOP in Congress want to pass a bill that they have no idea what the real impacts will be and are flat out lying to people (even their own part members) that they do know. The world's foremost deliberative body indeed.
Please. Senate Repubs know it's cornholio for 20M Americans. Don't let them escape the moral responsibility for willful acts.