Obamacare Repeal Bill Takes Another Step Forward, Passage Still In Doubt
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published MARCH 16, 2017, 10:42 AM EDT
After mere minutes of debate, the House Budget Committee narrowly approved the GOP bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, 17 to 19. Three hardline conservative Republicans on the committeeReps. David Brat (R-VA), David Gary Palmer (R-AL) and Mark Sanford (R-SC)joined every single Democrat member in opposing the bill, but were unable to muster the numbers to stop its passage.
The bill had been expected to squeak through the Budget Committee, though the exact number of Republican defections was up in the air. The bill next goes to the House Rules Committee, where it could see significant revisions.
The successful vote to advance the bill comes amid a wave of criticisms of the legislation from the left, right, and center, and admissions from House leadership that it cannot pass in its current form.
Conservatives lawmakers in the House are trying to pull the bill farther to the right, fighting to impose work requirements for people on Medicaid and speed up the freeze of the Medicaid expansion. But moderates in the House and Senateespecially those from states who opted to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of peopletell TPM these changes could drive away their votes.
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lark
(23,078 posts)No people killing and lives destroying bill should pass.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)Kremlin Kill kare.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Cosmocat
(14,560 posts)what an actual functioning democracy would do ...
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)and people forget what it is - a patch for a horribly spotty employer based coverage system.
But, regardless, it is at the point where they would be making some adjustments - however the biggest problems with it are those that republicans actively have caused by not fully implementing it. It is not even being run as it was set up to begin with, fully.
Cosmocat
(14,560 posts)to be EVEN WORSE to get their votes ...
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DeminPennswoods
(15,273 posts)Diane Black, (TN-06), Chairman
Todd Rokita, (IN-04), Vice-Chairman
Mario Diaz-Balart, (FL-25)
Tom Cole, (OK-04)
Tom McClintock, (CA-04)
Rob Woodall, (GA-07)
Steve Womack, (AR-03)
Glenn Grothman, (WI-06)
Bruce Westerman, (AR-04)
Jim Renacci, (OH-16)
Bill Johnson, (OH-06)
Jason Smith, (MO-08)
Jason Lewis, (MN-02)
Jack Bergman, (MI-01)
John Faso, (NY-19)
Lloyd Smucker, (PA-16)
Matt Gaetz, (FL-01)
Jodey Arrington, (TX-19)
Drew Ferguson, (GA-03)
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)lets hope the Republicans Co(R)poration doesn't win this time and kill off millions of Americans in one swoop.