A tweet from my democratic representative on the gop's pre-existing plan: $23 a month.

[spanone]

Jim Cooper

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https://twitter.com/@RepJimCooper

[JHan]

1. can we hear it for the "it doesn't matter who you vote for as president, it's all the same" folks?

[sharedvalues]

2. That line came from Rove in 00 and 04, and Russia today.

[JHan]

3. I've no idea.. my inspiration was actually Brecht.

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

[dweller]

6. this

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Plus 1000000

[brer cat]

10. Nailed it!

Thank you, JHan. I would like to share that with some deplorables I know.

[spanone]

4. if this passes the house, the senate won't allow it.....that's my hope

[JHan]

5. my hope too.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Can the Senate pass it with Pence's vote like with the Supreme Court?

[SunSeeker]

8. No, they need 60 votes because the filibuster still applies to legislation.

However, if they use that "reconciliation" maneuver, then they only need 51 votes. But reconciluation can only be used in certain circumstances:

One thing reconciliation probably cannot do on its own is remove the provisions of the ACA that prevent insurance plans from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. Any modifications to that requirement would have to come from the “replace” part of “repeal and replace,” and be initiated in the normal filibuster-bound rules. That limitation of reconciliation might be its biggest weakness for Republicans, because the requirement to provide coverage for pre-existing conditions essentially requires an individual mandate to work. Without a way to compel healthy people into purchasing insurance, markets are at risk of “death spirals.” That’s where only sick, and thus expensive, patients sign up for insurance; insurers can’t deny them coverage; and they, in turn, can’t create profit for insurers. Again, insurance companies might balk at that prospect and leave the markets altogether before they start taking more losses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/reconciliation-obamacare-repeal-gop-strategy/513059/