UPDATE : GOP HEALTH CARE BILL PULLED. THERE WILL BE NO VOTE --------------Latest GOP Health Care Bill Now "Officially" Dead
MITCH MCCONNELL ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING THAT THE GRAHAM-CASSIDY BILL TO REPEAL OBAMACARE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SENATE SCHEDULE.
IT IS OVER.
Maine Senator Susan Collins announced today that she will vote no on the Graham - Cassidy health care repeal and replace bill expected to come to a vote this week.
Assuming that none of herself, John McCain or Rand Paul changes their announced intention to vote no, the bill, which has come under withering criticism from both citizens and health care professionals, will not be passed.
There will immediately be speculation if it will even be called to a vote.
Next step for health care in Congress ? Bi partisan co-operation.
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Enough of the dumb ass games...Sit down with the dems and work out improvements to the ACA.
What is this 4 times that they have fallen on their faces and accomplished nothing.
They may not even call a vote. The GOP has people running in 2018 , such as Heller in Nevada, who may do better in the election if they dont have a yes vote on this bill on their record. Then again, his name is on the dang thing.
No surprise, fear mongering and free shit is a great electoral strategy in which only 25% of the country can name the three branches of government. Free shit (free in the sense that other people pay for it) is how demagogues win elections.
Mark Styen wrote a very prescient column in 2010:
I've e been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally “conservative” parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect...
[Right-of-center parties] fulfill the same function in the system as the first-year boys at wintry English boarding schools who, for tuppence-ha'penny or some such, would agree to go and warm the seat in the unheated lavatories until the prefects strolled in and took their rightful place. Republicans are good at keeping the seat warm. A bigtime GOP consultant was on TV, crowing that Republicans wanted the Dems to pass Obamacare because it's so unpopular it will guarantee a GOP sweep in November.
OK, then what? You'll roll it back – like you've rolled back all those other unsustainable entitlements premised on cobwebbed actuarial tables from 80 years ago? Like you've undone the federal Department of Education and of Energy and all the other nickel'n'dime novelties of even a universally reviled one-term loser like Jimmy Carter?
It will never be undone, it will be replaced by an even bigger shitpile of socialized medicine. But though care will decline and people will die, the idiots will be happy because its "free."
Now there will have to be bipartisan cooperaition.
Ted Cruz had announced he was also a no.
Maybe McConnell feared a floodgate was going to open so he pulled the plug.