Senate Republicans pour cold water on talk of reviving healthcare bill

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


White House and Senate seem ready to abandon efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, even as House Republicans insist they won’t give up


Associated Press
Tuesday 28 March 2017 17.27 EDT


Senate Republicans and the White House sounded ready to abandon efforts to repeal and replace the nation’s healthcare law, at least for now, even as House Republicans insisted on Tuesday they were not ready to give up on their years-long quest.

The intra-party dispute came in the wake of last Friday’s collapse of healthcare legislation in the House, a GOP humiliation at the climactic moment of seven years of promises to get rid of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, made his views clear after a closed-door lunch with fellow Senate Republicans and Vice-President Mike Pence.

“It’s pretty obvious we were not able, in the House, to pass a replacement. Our Democratic friends ought to be pretty happy about that because we have the existing law in place, and I think we’re just going to have to see how that works out,” McConnell said. “We believe it will not work out well, but we’ll see.”




Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/28/republicans-healthcare-bill-trump-obamacare-revival

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. tRump does not lead the Republicon caucus rabble, and even Ryan has great difficulty.

tRump is incompetent. Period.

[fleabiscuit]

2. K&R

[JudyM]

3. McConnell fancies himself the Great Oracle about "how it works out," knowing they're going to

starve ACA in an effort to kill it.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Like he was right about Obama being a one term President

(that's for Mitch, not you)

[JudyM]

11. Well he effectively killed most of what Obama tried to accomplish, and most importantly, Garland.

There's a special place in hell for him.

[LS_Editor]

4. Senate Republicans don't want to have to vote on something like that.

[cstanleytech]

5. The existing law will work out fine according to the CBO Mitch unless of course you

and your fellow Repugnants kneecap it via its funding and whittle away at it in other ways to weaken and destroy it which considering the lack of ethics from you and those in your party is probably what you will try to do.

[Hoyt]

6. It is foolish to believe callous GOPers won't continue trying to hurt poor and sick, even middle

class, by screwing any chance they have for decent health insurance.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Nobody wants to play with Trump. Guess "Art Of The Deal" is finding someone who trusts you.

It is a no-win situation.

He will take all the credit and disown all the blame.

[Salviati]

8. Ironically enough, a splash of cold water and being told to "Suck it up and walk it off"...

... was the proposed replacement for the ACA.

[Nitram]

9. In a sense I'm disappointed to heart this

The more time they waste on a fruitless mission to repeal Obamacare, the less time they have to spend on unraveling the entire safety net, all our financial safeguard regulations and all our environmental protections.