ObamaCare repeal fades from GOP priorities list in new year

[DonViejo]

BY PETER SULLIVAN - 01/10/18 06:00 AM EST

The chances of repealing ObamaCare this year are fading further, with top Republicans saying they hardly discussed repeal of the law during a Camp David retreat last weekend focused on their 2018 agenda.

Meanwhile, Republicans say talk of welfare or entitlement reform this year is also narrowing down to an emphasis on things like job training, not the broad overhaul of Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements that Democrats have warned against.

While some conservative groups and select lawmakers are pushing for ObamaCare repeal in 2018, President Trump and GOP leaders have signaled a desire to move on, at least for now, after unsuccessful repeal efforts sucked up months of the legislative calendar in 2017. Trump also declared after signing the GOP tax overhaul in December, which did away with the mandate that most people buy health insurance or face a tax penalty, that Republicans had “essentially repealed ObamaCare.”

“There’s some work we need to do on the health-care front, but I would hope we’re in a position to do things on a bipartisan basis,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the GOP leaders who huddled with Trump at Camp David to discuss the 2018 agenda. Asked if ObamaCare repeal was discussed in the meetings over the weekend, Cornyn — the Senate’s No. 2 Republican — replied flatly, “No.”

A source familiar with the conversations at Camp David confirmed that ObamaCare repeal was hardly discussed, except for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying that he did not want to do a partisan bill like ObamaCare repeal or entitlement reform through the fast-track process of reconciliation this year.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/368223-obamacare-repeal-fades-from-gop-priorities-list-in-new-year

[riversedge]

1. Trump admin is sabotaging #ACA--and will continue to do so

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[dawg]

2. The repeal of the individual mandate that passed with the tax bill ...

is likely to effectively destroy the program beginning in 2019, as younger healthier individuals begin to opt out and the "death spiral" in rates intensifies.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Alabama on my mind. 51-49 ...McCain and Cochrane MIA but still clinging to their office...until

November. Stalemate...what a relief...and isn't the ACA immune from another reconciliation attack...not to mention various lawsuits to cancel Shitler EO's...tens of millions signed up again...healthcare employment soaring...profits still healthy...no marketplace "collapse"... polling popularity rising...try again, forget about it!

The truth has finally got its athletic pants on and is racing towards the suddenly naked lie.

The individual mandate repeal hopefully has not too great an effect as all the minimum standards of any policy are still there and hopefully younger folks, who will still pay low premiums or even zero, will see the wisdom of that.

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Number one, never trust one word out of a Congressional Republican mouth...

Two, they will all do whatever they can to steal more money and rights from the citizens of America at every level, for any possible reason by cloaking it in those lies. These will include further thrashings, controlling and abuse of anyone female, non-white and non-Christian.

Three, it is an election year. They will shift their rhetoric to false narratives giving their party the illusion of having ANY positive agenda that would benefit the citizens of America or that they actually have souls. They don’t. This includes multiple bs mentions of bipartisanship, patriotism and “for the protection of all Americans”.

Four, they will continue to attack the Mueller investigation, voting rights and devote all focus to peel away the powers from the Left to combat them ~all the while stroking The Stupid’s hot buttons to believe that Republicans are the real victims- and that the Cretin is not a twisted, unfit, vile, lethal malignant wretch.

Five, repeat One through Four.

The biggest cowards of them will take their $ and run. The shittiest of them will need voted out of office by massive numbers and sent back under the rocks where they belong.