What parts of ACA were repealed last night?

[ret5hd]

I have googled, but no articles give specifics.

[WhiteTara]

1. The funding.

[flamingdem]

3. Of everything

as a blueprint.

It included subsidies and pre existing conditions

[drray23]

2. Absolutely nothing.

It was a vote in the senate. It has not gone to the house and president Obama has not signed it.

[Rollo]

5. Seems like a given that anything the Senate passes, the House will rubber stamp it,

As well as President Tweetie Turd.

[Bucky]

6. Not necessarily. Trump has come out for simultaneous repeal & replace

If he lobbies the House for it, it will save him a lot of grief down the road.

What we're looking at is a gang of Republicans playing chicken with each other. It remains to be seen if they're really willing to throw millions of Americans off their insurance with no plan for how to replace it.

God, what a nightmare.

[Rollo]

14. And the replacement will be...

Trump Aspirin

[Bucky]

15. okay buddy

your little sarcasm is going to cost you another 6 months in the Trump University re-education camp

[BzaDem]

4. No bill of any kind passed last night.

The budget is not a bill. It is a concurrent resolution. It is never signed by the president, and never becomes law.

It does open a procedural door that will allow Republicans to use the reconciliation procedure, which would allow them to pass a bill at a later point that repeals parts of the ACA without facing a Democratic filibuster.

[crosinski]

8. They didn't allow any amendments to protect any parts of the budget.

As I understand the process, and please correct me if I'm wrong, amendments to the budget are allowed to protect parts of the bill from being defunded. Democrats tried to protect women's healthcare services (including birth control), pre-existing conditions, and help controlling prescription drug costs by allowing us to import drugs from Canada. All these proposal were shot down by republicans. I hate those bastards. I really do.

[Ilsa]

9. My understanding is CHIP was denied funding also.

That's right, cheap health insurance for children was axed by the greedy bastards.

[Hoyt]

11. That has no chance of standing. There are like 1 Million children covered by CHIP in Texas alone.

GOPers will definitely be shamed into restoring some level of funding for CHIP.

I don't doubt the "greedy bastards" did it, but I bet it goes no further.

[Ilsa]

10. I don't understand procedurally how people will lose the ACA coverage.

So the fundingof programs is cut from the budget. At what point do people actually lose their insurance coverage?

[tritsofme]

12. Last night the Senate passed a budget resolution, it is not law

It will not become law, it is a template, a blue print. It sets the spending levels for the various committees and gives them instructions on how to get there.

This resolution instructed the committees to repeal the ACA, and it opened a procedure that would allow them to pass that bill with 50+1 votes in the Senate.

The real fight has yet to come.

[ret5hd]

13. Thanks everyone. I understand more now.