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Were Republicans Ever Really Going to Repeal Obamacare?
Posted On 27 Mar 2017
With the dust still settling from this healthcare bill fiasco, one can only begin to wonder if Republicans ever had any serious interest in repealing Obamacare to begin with. After all, the same House of Representatives that voted to repeal the law dozens of times when they knew it was headed for a veto on President Obama’s desk…suddenly is unable to agree on a plan?
Perhaps the problem is that, somewhere along the line, “repeal Obamacare” turned into “repeal and replace Obamacare.” And any form of genuine replacement is just going to leave the federal government in charge of the health insurance industry. In other words, it retains the big government growth. It retains the taxes, in one form or another. And, if you peel it all the way back to its core, it retains the individual mandate. It may not actually compel you to buy health insurance, but it will compel you to pay for those tax credits one way or the other.
And yet, repeal and replace is what it became, and it’s what every Republican ran on in 2016, including Donald Trump. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s some catastrophic failure that they haven’t made good on that promise. It’s only March. There’s plenty of time.
But they don’t seem interested. Paul Ryan says that Obamacare will be the law of the land for “the foreseeable future.” Trump says he’s ready to move on to tax reform and other items on his agenda. So after all of that talk and all of those promises…Republicans are just going to give up because they couldn’t pass a bill in 17 days?
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense. The story of this bill from start to finish…something doesn’t add up. Yes, there’s a huge ideological divide within the Republican Party. Yes, perhaps Trump made a few too many promises on the campaign trail to put into a coherent, conservative-minded bill. But why does that mean you work for less than a month to rid the country of this scourge called Obamacare?
The one thing Trump told us – continues to tell us, in fact – is that Obamacare would soon be in a death spiral from which it would not recover. And that is, by all reasonable accounts, the truth of the matter. So what is the plan? To just let it collapse? That doesn’t just mean that millions of people will lose their health insurance; it could have extraordinary economic reverberations throughout the country.
The party – hell, the entire federal government – has gotten into quite the jam on healthcare. And while Republicans are chasing their tails, the Bernie Sanders liberals are making another push for universal healthcare.
This wasn’t a failure, it was a surrender. Now we should demand to know why.
We don’t need repealed and adjusted Obamacare! We need a new structured Healthcare package! I am sure all fellow Americans agree.!
Things are coming that will make most of the expensive items provided with Obama care not needed anymore. Look at this and see how ACA can be totally repealed and make insurance competitive and affordable.
https://pro.agorafinancial.com/p/FTR_goldcure_0117/EFTRT348/?email=joe.maxwell.design%40gmail.com&a=13&o=45686&s=51987&u=336829&l=497094&r=MC2&vid=WeBntW&g=0&h=true
Therer is nothing all people agree on.
Based on what has happened, bait and switch was what the R’s intended all along. As soon as repeal became repeal and replace, that was a red flag. But they continued with all the rhetoric we wanted to hear, selling across state lines, health savings accounts, etc. being the replace part. There was a very short lived balloon floated about “fixing” the ACA that got shot down immediately, so immediately that most people don’t remember it; another red flag. Then, when they didn’t have the repeal (and replace) bill on Trump’s desk on or near the first day, yet another red flag. Then came the switch when Ryan rolled out the bill declaring that “this is Obamacare gone” when it was clearly not. “Oh, but look, there’s a phase 2 and a phase 3” they said. Betrayed again.
Trumps supporters and the Freedom Caucus are not as naive as Democrats and the RINO’s think!
The tax credits in the American Healthcare plan appeared to cover alternative/holistic insurance like mygreensurance and libertydirect. Nothing in the Republican plan was engraved in stone and could have been amended later.Freedom Caucus took an absolutist position which did not endear them to President Trump.
Yes, Trump never intended to repeal Obamacare in the first place.
Trump promoting this P0S gave the impression of progress without actually accomplishing anything except willingly betraying his supporters.
…………………..Yes, I said Trump willingly betrayed his supporters!
Repeal it completely like the CBO analysis said and Trumps supporters wanted! But Nooooo!!
7 years was long enough to craft a replacement bill, but the e/GOP RINO’s never thought Trump would be elected!
…………………….Hellll, most of the e/GOP RINO’s voted for Hillary!
That’s why nothing worthwhile was ready.
60 Senate votes needed? …No! The Senate Nuclear option could have been used to repeal it completely, if they had the balls to do it. They did not.
The House Freedom Caucus did the country a big favor!
CBO says Full Repeal of Obamacare would be Better than New GOP Plan
By Onan Coca March 14, 2017
constitution.com/cbo-says-full-repeal-obamacare-better-new-gop-plan/
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of the GOP healthcare plan and it did not deliver great news for Republican hopes of passage. In fact, by the CBO’s estimates the nation would actually be better off if the GOP simply fully repealed Obamacare instead of using the GOP’s current plan!
From the estimable healthcare expert Philip Klein:
In 2015, CBO evaluated a straight full repeal of Obamacare, without any replacement, and it found that coverage would actually be slightly better than what it would be under the House Republican plan being pushed by Speaker Paul Ryan. Whereas the Ryan plan would, according to the CBO, leave 51 million uninsured in 2025, two years ago, the CBO projected under a full repeal (without a replacement), 50 million would be uninsured. Now, it’s quite possible that the CBO would score full repeal differently now, given a different set of underlying assumptions. But it’s hard to see how the basic picture would change much.
>> Repeal it completely like the CBO said and like Trumps supporters want!
The republican party is controlled by liberal RINOs who are identical to liberal demoncrats. We only have one political party in Washington D.C. and it includes BOTH rinos and demoncrats and should be called the Liberal Party. Conservatives have no voice in what politicians in Washington D.C. do.
This will let the voters know who the liars are and who supports the Shadow governments control over our health (not to provide as we become older and less productive … in their eyes)
1.] Representative Mo Brooks, has filed a one-sentence bill to completely repeal Obamacare. It simply reads: “Effective as of December 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148) is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.”
2.] The bill would give Congress until the end of the year to agree on a replacement to Obamacare that these liars promised (for 8 years) would be signed within a month if elected.
3.] If no replacement is agreed on, it would simply remain repealed, as if it never existed.
4.] The real beauty is that we will instantly see the RINOs (and our enemies) that are beholden to the establishment either through conviction, bribes or extortion. They will not vote for this bill.