Senate returns more pessimistic than ever on healthcare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senators went into a recess skeptical over whether they could agree to legislation repealing and replacing ObamaCare.

They will return on Monday more doubtful than ever.

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), one of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) most loyal allies, said Thursday that it’s “unlikely” the GOP will get a healthcare deal.

“I don’t see a comprehensive healthcare plan this year,” he told a local news station. 

Senate Republicans hoped to have a draft bill this week, but it now looks like there will at best be an outline.

 http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/336145-senate-returns-more-pessimistic-than-ever-on-healthcare?rnd=1496655927

[LOL Lib]

1. New GOP plan to be named "NoCare"

We all know that is the real aim. Fuck the old, sick, unfortunate. NoCare!

[Wounded Bear]

2. They are stuck between "no plan" and a bad plan...

can't say that I feel a lot of sympathy for Repubs in Congress, but we're still in a spot where they can trash Obamacare, and offer nothing substantial in return.

Hard times coming.

[Caliman73]

3. I dont see a comprehensive healthcare plan this year, he told a local news station.

More like, "I don't want a comprehensive healthcare plan...ever!"

As I have said, President Obama pushed healthcare as far to the right as he possibly could, with some tweaks, to make it a somewhat workable though flawed program that might get more people covered and eventually start bending down the cost curve. The GOP has nowhere to go here. They either repeal it with nothing to replace it (which many of them want, but fear the political consequences of) OR they try to tweak it to keep some of the good things (which the hardcore righties will hate) which is not sustainable. The ACA is a complicated law and needs a lot of components to keep it sustainable. The GOP right away, went to work to cut the legs out from under it, but they couldn't do enough damage to outright kill it. Then people noticed that it has helped them. Now, as I said, the GOP understands that there are people out there who are alive because of ACA. Some don't care, but many of them know that if they just outright end the program, they will be voted out.

10 dimensional chess indeed.