More Than Three Times As Many Americans Oppose The Republican Health Care Bill As Are For It
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/blow-for-trump-healthcare-bill-as-vote-postponed-1.3022543
American voters disapprove of the Republican plan to replace Obamacare by 56-17 per cent, with 26 per cent undecided, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released on Thursday. Just 41 per cent of Republicans support the party’s plan, with 24 per cent opposed, according to the poll.
In the days since Republican leaders first introduced the legislation, Mr Trump has made repeated attempts to court his party’s holdouts, inviting them over for numerous meetings and social gatherings at the White House, and attempting to allay concerns.
Mr Trump has repeatedly asserted that he believes the Bill will pass the House, and the White House has not laid out a plan B to repeal and replace the current healthcare programme should this Bill fail.
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It would be insane to pass this bill into law.
Well, at least we're not alone!
Rep. Massie, from Somewhere in KY changed his vote from NO to HELL NO, and I've got to say "Well done!"
It would be insane to pass this bill into law.
Ummm..... John?
You're talking about the Republicans. Worse: you're talking about House Republicans.
Insanity is to be expected.
I'm with Rand Paul not enough cuts go bigger.
Yeah, let's get that approval number down to single digits.
I am hoping that most republicans will look at polls like this and realize that the American people have changed their opinion. They do not want a repeal and replace of Obamacare. They want it fixed, not destroyed. So whenever one of them says we are doing what the American people sent us here to do and we are just keeping our campaign promise, they are looking at very old polls and not new ones. If they vote to pass this tax cut disguised as a healthcare bill, that only touches healthcare in that it throws millions of people off from healthcare and is really a thinly disguised huge tax cut for the rich. It is what the GOP loves. Huge tax cuts for the rich and in this case they get to screw the poor and middle class too. A GOP DREAM!
Until the Congresspeople who voted for this return to their district and find themselves out of work that is. They need to ask themselves (especially since this is not going to make it through the Senate) are they willing to give up their jobs for this?