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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,955 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:19 PM Jan 2017

It will only get harder for Republicans aiming to repeal Obamacare

Congress took its first step toward rolling back President Obama’s health-care reform law Friday, with the House voting along party lines to pass a crucial precursor to the Affordable Care Act’s unraveling.

It will now only get harder for Republicans. They must assemble a viable replacement for a law that has expanded health insurance coverage to roughly 20 million Americans and eliminated unpopular insurance industry practices, such as lifetime coverage caps and widespread refusal to cover already-sick individuals.

Republican leaders have instead focused on the Affordable Care Act’s flaws — rising premiums for plans sold in state marketplaces, high deductibles and burdensome taxes. GOP lawmakers are set to gather in Philadelphia later this month to hash out a more complete alternative.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Friday’s nearly party-line vote would launch a “thoughtful, step-by-step process” including action by both Congress and the Trump administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congress-readies-to-begin-obamacare-repeal-process/2017/01/13/6bcd6eba-d9b3-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.bb1e9c4ff8fe&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation#comments

The process: Anyone dead yet? Good.

Next day: Anymore die? Several? Good job keep it up.

And so on...

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It will only get harder for Republicans aiming to repeal Obamacare (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
Must they, though? Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Must they, though?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:21 PM
Jan 2017

Cant they act like the irresponsible little ignorant children they are and just repeal it with nothing to take it's place if they want to?

One must remember, they are doing this to purposely harm the people who are on ACA and who voted for Obama.

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