McConnell Pulls Plug on GOP Health Care Bill, Will Seek Obamacare Repeal

[Zorro]

Source: NBC News

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Monday night that he lacked the votes to pass the Senate health care bill after two more Republican senators came out against it, leaving the party short of a majority.

Instead, he said the Senate would vote on a full repeal of Obamacare, with two years before the repeal goes into effect to allow time to create a new system. The new plan may appear to fulfill a seven-year GOP promise, but it faces extremely difficult odds after many moderate Republican senators have already come out against repeal without an immediate replacement.

Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah set the chain of events in motion Monday night when they announced on Twitter that they both would oppose the current bill, which was released just last week.

Moran and Lee followed two other Republican senators who had already said they wouldn't support the bill: Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/two-more-health-care-defections-dooms-current-gop-bill-n783926

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Does he have the votes to repeal?

Would there be 51 votes to repeal by even the moderates?

Isn't it obvious that the purpose of repealing would allow republicans to budget their tax cuts in time for next year?

[Kablooie]

11. He needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

Unless he eliminates the filibuster.
Then the Senate will become the House light.

[Shrek]

16. It passed in 2015 without 60 votes

And no filibuster.

President Obama had to veto it.

[hibbing]

2. So sabotage it all to hell for two years

And then continue the meme, with help from the corporate media that the ACA is in a death spiral. Seven damn years and for some reason they can't get their act together enough to kick 20 plus million off insurance....sad. I'm certainly not celebrating, I don't trust any of these aholes regardless of what they say in public.

Peace

[Bengus81]

15. Especially Jerry Moran from Kansas.............

And this is coming from someone who lives in Kansas. He doesn't want this bill,he just wants the ACA tossed in the DUMPSTER never to be seen again. Reading an article he was the FIRST Senator all those years ago to call for repeal of the ACA.

[SHRED]

4. He'll need 60 votes won't he?

[Fred Sanders]

19. Yes, since not a reconciliation rule bill. Not to mention CBO says repeal will leave 32 million

w/o insurance. The Turtle is just trying to save face.

[Stuart G]

5. Paragraph 2..is the key..note words.. "The new plan...extremely difficult odds"....

From NBC News...


"Instead, he said the Senate would vote on a full repeal of Obamacare, with two years before the repeal goes into effect to allow time to create a new system. The new plan may appear to fulfill a seven-year GOP promise, but it faces extremely difficult odds after many moderate Republican senators have already come out against repeal without an immediate replacement. '

[harun]

18. One of the few times I have to give credit to the "Moderate Republicans".

They know damn well if they vote to repeal and have promises of a replacement that they will not get anything to replace it and their voters will literally be dying.

[C Moon]

6. The GOP is incapable of doing the U.S. any good.

What the hell do the dumb-shit voters think when they vote GOP?

[renegade000]

8. Something like this...

Historically quite ironic, but after LBJ and civil rights here we are...

[C Moon]

10. :O

[Midnight Writer]

7. Funny. Repeal was not a problem for Republicans when Obama was President.

[gordianot]

12. Truer words are seldom spoken.

How many times did they vote full repeal? It was like playing a game of chicken when you knew some one was going to save you. They are not so brave now with halls full of angry people who have figured out the death panels are their very own Republican Congressperson.

[ImpeachTheGOP]

9. They can't do a clean repeal with reconciliation.

They'd have to go nuclear or get 60 votes.

[Bengus81]

13. Two years? Why not trash can it in 2018 Turtle??

Oh yeah...that's the year that all the Republican THUGS in the House come up for re-election. You know...the ones who voted unanimously to throw the ACA in the dumpster.

[workinclasszero]

14. Republican scum voting to kill Americans..children even

WTF is the difference between these bastards and ISIS?

[forgotmylogin]

17. We can't figure out how to replace what we're calling a faulty bridge support...

...so we're just gonna yank the old one out and see how it goes...

[Bayard]

20. In two years, they'll have nothing better than they have now

But they'll still go ahead and yank Obamacare.