Tom Price: Senate Will Produce Obamacare Repeal Bill 'This Summer'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By TIERNEY SNEED Published MAY 12, 2017 11:53 AM

Health and Human Service Secretary Tom Price was optimistic that a Senate Obamacare repeal bill would be coming soon, telling Hugh Hewitt on Friday that he believed the “Senate will produce a bill this summer,” with a vote before the August recess.

“We’re assisting and providing technical assistance, and responding to and trying to answer any questions that any of the United States senators may have who are interested in moving forward in a positive and productive way,” Price said on Hewitt’s radio show, according to the transcript.

GOP senators have resisted putting a timeline on their effort and have insisted they will bring up a bill whenever they have settled on a plan that 51 of their members can support.

“This process will not be quick or simple or easy, but it must be done,” Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said last week.

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[stillsoleft]

1. But will President Hatch sign it?

[lark]

2. +1,000,000,000

[DFW]

9. Sure he will.

He wouldn't hesitate like like former President Ryan or former President Pence would have.

[Erick the Read]

14. Pence before Ryan

Unless the OP is talking about a terrorist attack.

[DFW]

15. I was working backwards

I know the order of succession.

Unfortunately I know who's in it for the moment, too. The press would REALLY have to do its job before we even got as far as Hatch, and given who pays their bills, the likelihood is remote at best.

[RDANGELO]

3. This man is an idiot.

He understands the workings of the health care industry, but on the economic part, he is an idiot.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. So embarrassed this asshole is from my state. Our apologies....

[bucolic_frolic]

4. All they know is

they get the money and the deceased can't vote against them

They call this win-win

[ck4829]

5. "I know what you're going to do this summer", real life, unlike the slasher movie

"I know what you did last summer"

[BumRushDaShow]

7. If that is their timeframe

they will most likely be off until well after Labor Day when they'll have a couple weeks to do a FY18 appropriations bill or the government will shut down October 1st. They may try to attach it to the appropriations and we'll be back to arguing for a "clean appropriations bill" and all the other nonsense that happens like that every year. And this time they might try to threaten not to do a CR since it seems they got a "pass" with the 2013 shutdown after cherry-picking which agencies to fund during the shutdown.

[Cryptoad]

10. Trump done said,,

he going to shut her down........

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Yup, that's what he said - "a good shutdown". nt

[Cryptoad]

8. Warning Graphic content,,,,,

Hey Hugh ,,, kiss my lily white ass you son of bitch!

[bucolic_frolic]

12. It's a Death Panel Bill

for constituents and their political lives

if we can make them pay at the ballot box

[not fooled]

13. Translation

“We’re assisting and providing technical assistance, and responding to and trying to answer any questions that any of the United States senators may have who are interested in moving forward in a positive and productive way,” Price said

= Heriturd Fuckdation, other kochbots, all the RW crackpot "think" tanks are telling the GOPee senate how to write the bill to ensure the wealthy get their tax cuts and the rest of us get screwed.