Dem rep. trolls GOP with amendment requiring health bill to meet Trump's 'insurance for all' promise

[DonViejo]

DAVID EDWARDS
08 MAR 2017 AT 13:59 ET

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) on Tuesday tried to force the Republican Party to uphold President Donald Trump’s promise of “insurance for everybody.”

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Republican plan to replace President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, Blumenauer became the first lawmaker to offer an amendment to the GOP bill.

Blumenauer’s amendment would prevent any of the provisions in the American Health Care Act to take effect until the Congressional Budget Office could verify that the law would provide “coverage for all tax payers.”

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Democrats said that Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) immediately ruled that the amendment was “not in order.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/dem-rep-trolls-gop-with-amendment-requiring-health-bill-to-meet-trumps-insurance-for-all-promise/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Brilliant, and look how long it took for a republican to say no, we would rather kill Americans.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. Yes I noticed that. Texan puke.

I can't believe how much I hate them. Pukes, that is. All of em. Not just Texans.

Why can't they just secede, already?

[Wounded Bear]

2. What? Only taxpayers? Not all citizens?

[mwooldri]

5. Hee hee.. Trump won't be covered...

... since he doesn't pay taxes lol...

[progree]

6. Yeah, strange wording. But we're all taxpayers -- sales tax for example

[marybourg]

3. "Better and cheaper"

"roll out on day one"

[gratuitous]

4. Earl! Whatchoo doin'?

My representative has not exactly been a firebrand during his congressional career, but it looks like the current Republican regime may have - at last - lit a fire under Blumenauer's ass.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Trump told so many lies, particularly about health care....

I wonder what the rural Republicans, many of whom get subsidies, are going to think about this new GOP so-called plan.

A tax credit is only good if you can pay the premium in the first place. The millionaires in Congress (and billionaires) cannot even conceive of the idea of not being able to afford to pay a premium. SAD!

[Amaryllis]

8. My rep...we love Earl in my neck of the woods. I doubt he is trolling. Knowing him, he probably

means it. He is very progressive and represents us well. .