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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 2, 2017, 09:04 PM May 2017

Republicans just lost a huge vote on their health care bill

House leaders are still a few lawmakers short of getting the votes they need for the American Health Care Act, though they are within striking distance based on public whip counts and my own reporting. But they just lost a big vote.

Congress member Fred Upton of Michigan, who until January had been chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main health care legislating committees in Congress, officially came out against the bill on Tuesday.

Upton made the announcement during a local radio interview, and his office confirmed to me that he is a “No” vote on the bill.




Upton had said late last week that he was uncomfortable with changes to the bill that won over the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Those changes would allow states to opt out of some of Obamacare’s insurance rules, which prohibited insurers from charging sick people more than healthy people and required plans to offer more comprehensive coverage — changes that potentially mean even more people would lose insurance than the 24 million estimated under the previous version of the bill.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-just-lost-a-huge-vote-on-their-health-care-bill/ar-BBAE2Wr?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp
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Republicans just lost a huge vote on their health care bill (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
K&R sheshe2 May 2017 #1
That whole Freedom Caucus are some vile assholes. Thrill May 2017 #2
K&R 2naSalit May 2017 #3
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