36 Responses to “McConnell will try to pass a repeal with a replacement to be decided within 2 years”

1. thom
   July 17th, 2017 @ 10:03 pm

   In the mean time — start appointing Federal Judges , and all other appointees

2. KBB
   July 17th, 2017 @ 10:18 pm

   The Republican pieces of horse poo lied to us for 6 years, telling us they had a replacement for o’care that was ready for obama to sign EXCEPT they didn’t want to give it to him cuz he would just veto it. They said they really needed the Senate for it to go through…then what they really needed was the WH, and now they are “working” on it?! All the while they were lying to us, they were taking recesses, going to cocktail parties, entering 3 martini lunches to their expense accounts, collecting their excessive taxpayer-funded salaries and giving themselves regular 5% raises, because they sure weren’t working on a healthcare plan. And now, using McCain’s surgery as an excuse to delay it. Disgusting.

3. Heidi
   July 18th, 2017 @ 4:07 am

   This worries me. Why should we believe that they will be able to agree in two years? If they don’t have a plan sooner, this just hands the democrats and the fake news media an issue for 2018.

4. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   July 18th, 2017 @ 7:57 am

   if they don’t, then we will be in the same position as we were before Ocare was passed in the first place. We would have lower premiums and lower deductables

5. Rich
   July 18th, 2017 @ 9:07 am

   Obamacare is an entitlement and therefore a hot potato. No politician wants to be on record as having voting against one. That is why democrats put them on the table even though they cannot be paid for. That is why the GOP out maneuvered the democrats and defunded Obamacare during the first congress after the election with the reconciliation process. Trump didn’t have to sign it. Get iT? Now the democrats are trying to get back on the table and make Trump sign it or veto it. Read the following copy of the reconciliation report. It happened OK.

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   House takes first step towards repealing
   Obamacare
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   By Tom LoBianco, Deirdre Walsh and Tal Kopan,
   CNN
   Story highlights
   The House of Representatives voted
   along party lines for the repeal
   Republican leaders have promised
   to replace Obamacare with their
   own healthcare plan
   Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives began
   the process of dismantling the A㴂ordable Care Act on Friday,
   approving a budget resolution on a mostly party line vote.
   The vote was 227-198.
   The Senate passed the measure earlier this week. It allows
   Republicans on Capitol Hill to use a process known as “budget
   reconciliation” to roll back major parts of the health care law.
   Top Republican leaders are also saying they plan to move to
   replace Obamacare along the same track, but they are still
   struggling to come up with the details on how it will work.
   What Obamacare could be replaced with
   Only nine Republicans crossed the aisle to side with
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   Only nine Republicans crossed the aisle to side with
   Democrats against the measure: Reps. Justin Amash, Charlie
   Dent, Brian Fitzpatrick, Walter Jones, John Katko, Raul
   Labrador, Tom MacArthur, Thomas Massie and Tom
   McClintock. No Democrats voted for the resolution.
   Some Republicans, like Pennsylvania moderate Dent, said
   they were concerned that the GOP does not have a clear plan
   to replace Obamacare yet. Dent cautioned that Friday’s
   decision could further send insurance markets into a spiral.
   “If there’s uncertainty and these markets are already
   collapsing without us doing anything, this type of action could
   accelerate the collapse. So we have to make sure we have
   clear idea how we’re going to land this plane,” Dent said after
   the vote. “Before we take this plane in the air, I want to know
   we’re going to land it. Right now I’m not sure we can land it.”
   “I just couldn’t vote because I think we’re going a little too fast,” said MacArthur of New Jersey. “That said, I
   understand Leadership’s goals and I agree with them. We have to fix what is clearly broken with Obamcare. We
   have to fix that. I have for years said we have to repeal and replace.”
   Amash, the leader of a group of libertarian Republican members, explained afterward that he opposed the
   measure because of broader concerns about government spending. (Friday’s vote also formally approved budget
   guidelines for the current fiscal year.)
   “Most massive budget in U.S. history passed 227-198. It adds more than $9 TRILLION to the debt over the next
   decade,” Amash, a Michigan Republican tweeted.
   But the focus and the fight was clearly on Obamacare — which is set to dominate much of the time in Washington
   in the coming months.
   ‘Rescue mission’
   “This is a signal that we are very serious about what we’ve campaigned on for years. It’s the very beginning,” said
   House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who polled Republicans on their concerns before Friday’s big vote. “We’ve said
   from the start, we’ve gotta have this first step to then go and not only repeal but replace Obamacare. I think this
   shows we have strong resolve to follow through on that process.”
   House Speaker Paul Ryan said that Republicans were now sending in a “rescue mission” to fix the massive
   healthcare law.
   “I can’t help but think back to when we were debating this law in 2010. As a member of the minority, I stood right
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   “I can’t help but think back to when we were debating this law in 2010. As a member of the minority, I stood right
   here and pleaded with the majority not to do it. Don’t take something as personal as health care and subject it to
   this big government experiment. Don’t do something so arrogant and so contrary to our founding principles,” Ryan
   said in a rare floor speech. “My colleagues, this experiment has failed. This law is collapsing as we speak. And we
   have to step in before things get even worse. This is nothing short of a rescue mission.”
   Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — who led the passage of the law in 2009 and 2010 when Democrats controlled the
   House — accused Republicans of attempting to “cut and run” on people with health insurance and argued that
   Republicans would end up cutting Medicare benefits as well.
   “The Republican replacement plan is cut and run: cut benefits, cut investments and hospitals that care for our
   people, cut jobs. It’s with no positive upside to it,” Pelosi said. ‘We are not going to identify ourselves with cut and
   run, cutting benefits, cutting of those covered and cutting the savings that we have there.”
   By using the budget process, Republicans are taking advantage of the same process which Democrats used
   seven years ago to pass the law — using a special budgeting rule that allows them to skirt a filibuster in the Senate.
   Why it’s so hard to replace Obamacare
   But that strategy only works for fiscal measures in the healthcare law — like tax credits — and leaves untouched
   some of the more popular slices of the law, like allowing children to stay on their parents’ plans until they are 26.
   The vote will clear the decks for Republicans to begin working on a repeal of the law — but the larger debate has
   engulfed the Capitol over how and when Republicans would replace the law.
   The debate over replacement has exposed some rifts within the Republican Party, which now controls the White
   House and both chambers of Congress — the same position Democrats were in seven years ago.
   Some conservative Republicans, including members of the small but influential House Freedom Caucus, balked at
   the measure — citing concerns about the timeline to replace Obamacare, and the lack of spending cuts in the
   underlying budget being voted one.
   At the same time, more moderate members of the party are concerned about the party moving forward with
   repeal without more detailed replace plans. Millions of Americans could lose health insurance if Obamacare was
   rolled back before a replacement was in place.
   The budget concerns have prompted Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to vote against his party and the bill in the Senate,
   though Republicans still had the votes needed to pass it. Leadership insists that the resolution is only a shell for the
   budget, and not the final numbers.
   But any replacement measure un-related to the budget will
   have to clear 60 votes in the Senate — a prospect that
   requires Democratic support, as Republicans only have a 52-
   seat majority. Republicans also have several competing plans
   to replace Obamacare, and No. 2 Senate Republican John
   Cornyn has indicated that the party may opt to move smaller
   pieces of legislation as opposed to one overarching
   replacement.
   Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper at a town hall that the goal is to
   move everything at once.
   “We want to do this at the same time, and in some cases in
   the same bill,” Ryan said. “So we want to advance repealing
   this law with its replacement at the same time.”
   CNN’s Manu Raju, Phil Mattingly, MJ Lee contributed to this
   report.
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6. Starlight
   July 18th, 2017 @ 10:14 am

   TWO YEARS is not acceptable to all of the
   citizens who need a doctor/medical provisions
   and do not want to be under any semblance
   of the NON-AFFORDABLE Act.

   This is procrastination at its worst.

   Surely, President Trump can step in
   with the advice of someone knowledgeable,
   and have finished by August.

   We were doing very well, before Obama
   had the illegal ACT passed.

   If he can get something illegal passed
   without a whimper from those who
   decide on these matters,

   then Trump should be able to get
   a legal act passed w/o this
   constant bickering and delay.

   As for McCain’s surgery, why should
   he even be needed. Just do it already.

7. Extirpates
   July 18th, 2017 @ 10:19 am

   The Federal govmint should not be involved in Healthcare.
   That is not delegated to them, but to the States.
   Repeal yes, replace NO.

8. FROM ANOTHER PLANET
   July 18th, 2017 @ 10:54 am

   sickening. these buffoons had 8 years. incompetent liars.

9. Rich
   July 18th, 2017 @ 11:30 am

   Starlight: as soon as a dollar leaves the pocket of the one who earned it and enters the U.S.Treasury it is devalued by the amount equal to the Treasury interest rate which is first paid to our enemies and others before we spend it. It doesn’t pay for healthcare for those who our out of work because employers cannot afford the mandates or penalties. It is anybody’s guess as to how health care actually gets to the patient. The corruption just keeps feeding on itself. Nobody can pay for it. Government entitlements are deadly and formidable political tools because politicians cannot figure a way to pay for them and cannot stay elected if they vote against them so they destroy themselves. The waste because of the idea “if you don’t use it you will lose it” also helps make it unaffordable. The democrats had a filibuster proof Senate with all four branches of government for eight years. It put 90 million out of work, created record deficits, and left more people without heath care than before the democrats took office. The argument is over. The proof is here. Government healthcare does not work. It created the people you characterize in your sob story.

10. Starlight
    July 18th, 2017 @ 12:19 pm

    It sounds now as if Trump is saying that
    they will start over.

    That works for me.

    Burn the thousand of pages,

    open up a new ledger and write a simpler
    plan that meets everyone’s needs,
    including the medical profession.

    and Extirpates is right.. it’s
    none of the government’s affair
    regarding our health plans.

11. Rich
    July 18th, 2017 @ 2:19 pm

    I agree with you starlight. I trust Trump more than any politician since Reagan. But he still has to win an election and when liberals put entitlements on the table and start playing all the different colored cards it aint easy. Liberals don’t feel threatened by deficit spending because of the power of entitlements and the various colored bias cards they can play.

12. taino21
    July 18th, 2017 @ 2:26 pm

    Extirpates, agree 1000%! I’ve been saying the same thing for ages. Repeal the monstrosity and open state lines for insurance companies. You can buy car insurance across state lines but not health insurance? Politicians always make a simple matter look like the end of the world for their own nefarious purposes. We didn’t have the feds involved before obolacare and no one was dying from lack of coverage. Remember those $10 a pill for aspirins in hospitals? Obolacare was supposed to bring costs down and now they’ll charge you up to $25 an aspirin! This is nothing more than another scam to rip us of our hard earn money!

13. Starlight
    July 18th, 2017 @ 4:06 pm

    “It created the people you characterize in your sob story.”

    Do you mean “sob” as in crying?

    I am not creating a ‘sob’/ crying story,
    unless my alter ego did it behind my
    back.

    Not sure at all what you mean,
    but no worries. I go with the flow.

    Taino21 and From Another Planet *(lol)
    are seeing what I see. Never fails
    to mystify me that those people in
    charge of our lives, strangers and
    fools, (I speak of the Senate/House,
    Congress, etc.)

    cannot draw up a comprehensive document,
    which I bet anyone on this board with some
    accounting and business skills, could
    have done within ..oh,say… 2 weeks
    at most; 1 week, probably.

14. W
    July 19th, 2017 @ 12:23 am

    We stated repeal only months ago. This s is what enormous pressure has finally brought to bear. Keep it up

15. Rich
    July 19th, 2017 @ 5:32 am

    Starlight, you are making me the problem. Stick to the issues.Facts are facts. How do you feel about the deficit? Do you think deficit spending creates profit or debt? Do you think the rich can pay 90 million people to stay on subsidies and entitlements?

16. Starlight
    July 19th, 2017 @ 10:28 am

    Sorry, Rich, I have no idea what you are
    talking (writing) about.

    It does not make sense what you are
    inferring.

    You must be confusing me with someone
    else. your post #8 was not understood
    by me and as far as the deficit and
    the profit, and the debt..

    I have no interest in any of the
    above topics..do not even discuss
    them and your advice is, I am
    sure,very knowledgeable, but
    for me, not of interest.

    Now, you may think I am kind of
    a non-thinker, but what turns you
    on, does not turn me on.

    Glad you like Trump/Reagan.
    On that we can find a mutual
    topic.

17. Trump Supporter
    July 19th, 2017 @ 2:31 pm

    Boy, the whole thing just is nuts!

    Why can’t they just repeal and then, start over and do it as quickly as possible?

    Go back to the free market and then, add whatever was needed in the first place!

    And ASAP!

    The voters are going to check this out…and if it is not what they need, then, Mitch and others are going to be handing the elections of 2018…to the (D)’s!

    So the ones that don’t want to function with this bill (might be assumed) to be closet nwo’s?

18. Madi
    July 19th, 2017 @ 2:39 pm

    Reagan , you and us : we are American., good decent citizen of this unbelievable country.

    Republican =Democrat
    We have been fooled

    Thank you President Trump,
    Everyday one more useful idiot get inform
    Dr Taitz
    we know why pResident Obama , Barry Soetoro was elected not once but rwice,
    Everything O passed is a joke! He is an undocumented Hater of this country . Where is SCotus ? In with the R and the D!
    Bring Dr Taitz to Scotus !

19. Birdy
    July 19th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

    President has it right. Put repeal to a vote. Those who voted for it when Obama was president but who will vote against it now are liars who lied to the voters to get elected. They need to be exposed as such and voted out the next time they run.

    A delay of two years is worthless. Two years from now, they will be passing emergency legislation to kick the can down the road again. Repeal it now.

20. Rich
    July 20th, 2017 @ 5:53 am

    No politician can stay in office if they vote against an entitlement. That is why democrats put them on the table even though they cannot be paid for. Liberals then pose as disgruntled conservatives and scream at republicans : “primary them” or “they broke their promise” so vote them out of office in order to elect more democrats. That is how we got Clinton, Obama, and created Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Comer, Lynch, Rice and all the rest of the liberals.

21. Wow!
    July 20th, 2017 @ 2:30 pm

    Well, we need to start to think along the lines of REPEALING…

    Then, allow the states to get into this, since the govt has no business being involved with all of this!

    Check this out…

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/07/19/draft-n2357102?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

    I think this is the one I wanted to post?

    Guess we’ll see.

    If it’s not, I’ll try to find the right one!

    And I sent an email to Trump today and asked: if he can somehow write an Executive Order to have the health care needed, so that he can bypass the hassle of playing any nore games with the left and the Rinos?

    If some legal scholar knows, post it!

22. Wow!
    July 20th, 2017 @ 2:31 pm

    Yup!

    This is the right one!

    Start to hit the people in Congress with all kinds of contact, to let them know that THEY are the ones who will have a problem later with the voters!

    Etc.!

23. Don in Oklahoma
    July 20th, 2017 @ 6:33 pm

    Just repeal and get the government out of our health care.

24. America!!!! FOREVER!!!!
    July 21st, 2017 @ 4:42 pm

    Well, the latest issue of the National Enquirer has good news for Trump, I believe?

    As President, too, he should have the right to pardon anyone he wants!

    He can pardon someone headed for a variety of problem areas, I always thought!

    And when is Mueller going to grow up and act like a Patriot, if he ever did, instead of the slobber knocker nonsense he keeps putting out?

    The N.E. also discusses how Hillary set up Trump and one of his sons…and Mueller should know this without asking a crystal ball!

25. American Patriiotism IS ALIVE!!!!!
    July 26th, 2017 @ 11:36 am

    Well, here’s what a Rep said about McConnell:

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/343889-gop-rep-says-mcconnell-is-head-of-the-swamp

    If that’s true, then, we can see how this Swamp Situation has been allowed to continue, to this point!

26. Liz
    July 26th, 2017 @ 1:42 pm

    McConnell is a swamp creature. 7 GOP senators defected on this last vote. Nothing is going to happen until McConnell is no longer majority leader.

27. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    July 26th, 2017 @ 2:29 pm

    I am not sure these 7 would have voted differently with another leader

28. Rich
    July 26th, 2017 @ 3:06 pm

    Republicans are not the problem. The democrats are the problem especially democrats who are posing as disgruntled Republicans on the blogs and blaming other Republicans for what democrats are doing.

29. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    July 26th, 2017 @ 3:33 pm

    7 Republicans lied, promissed to repeal, voted to repeal in 2015 and refused to do it now

30. Liz
    July 26th, 2017 @ 4:25 pm

    But isn’t the leader supposed to keep his troops in line? Was the bill so bad that he lost 7 of his party? We can’t blame the democrats opposed it, that’s what they do, but 7 GOP? Maybe Boehner is right and they will never repeal O-Care.

31. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    July 26th, 2017 @ 9:09 pm

    they will pass the “skinny” repeal. It will the first step

32. Trump Supporter
    July 27th, 2017 @ 10:44 am

    And…those that can’t even cooperate with Trump on the health bill need to examine why they are doing this.

    Or…are they closet nwo’s?

    And can Trump just pen an Executive Order to by-pass the Congress?

33. RED, WHITE & BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!
    July 27th, 2017 @ 2:11 pm

    Liz: they are 7 people that are (possibly-?) controlled by the nwo?!

    This health bill should be repealed, then, sent to the free market to build the health insurance info for America, and to do it right this time…

    To cover most every situation that could come up!

    If a person is a legal citizen, then, they have the right to be covered, to protect them from the high cost of real serious situations that can come up!

    Most people couldn’t afford the high priced health bills!

34. Liz
    July 27th, 2017 @ 2:52 pm

    #33, it sounds like you want a single payer system.

35. They are Sidewinders!!
    July 28th, 2017 @ 3:09 pm

    Liz: single payer is when the govt is in control of the health care…like OCare is still for now.

    It will be cost effective if the free market takes back the ‘care for everyone in their own state or find a better insurance plan some other state?

    The single payer is what O was looking to find before Trump got elected…I believe!

36. W
    July 29th, 2017 @ 7:02 am

    They never intended to repeal anything they only voted yes knowing that McCain would override them not to worry we have plans to correct this

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