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Doug the Dem

(1,297 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:13 AM Jul 2017

Trump making last-ditch effort after health bill collapse

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it’s probably time to “just let Obamacare fail” after the latest humiliating heath bill collapse in the Senate. Still, he’s making a last-ditch effort to find some way to revive his party’s seemingly failed efforts on the bill.

Trump stayed largely on the sidelines as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struggled unsuccessfully to round up support to make good on the GOP’s years of promises to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law. But with McConnell’s third and final effort — on a repeal-only bill — looking like it, too, had collapsed, Trump urged McConnell to delay a make-or-break vote until early next week.

And the president invited all GOP senators to the White House for lunch Wednesday to discuss a path forward.

Trump pulled a similar move in June after McConnell fell short on his first health care effort, and it yielded no apparent results. Indeed Trump seated himself between two GOP senators — Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — who announced Tuesday they would oppose McConnell’s efforts to move forward with the latest bill.

Along with opposition from a third GOP senator, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, that was enough to kill the legislation. McConnell can lose only two votes and still move forward in the closely divided Senate.

Read more: https://apnews.com/3ba9461280e948bbb0f040f8f9a115e3/Trump-making-last-ditch-effort-after-health-bill-collapse



Maybe it's time for Dr McCoy to give Capt Kirk the news.
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Trump making last-ditch effort after health bill collapse (Original Post) Doug the Dem Jul 2017 OP
Alarming bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #1
I don't wish pain and illness upon anyone, but Ilsa Jul 2017 #2
It's called schadenfreude. machoneman Jul 2017 #4
I won't take joy in it; there is no schadenfreude here. Ilsa Jul 2017 #5
Never happen cyclonefence Jul 2017 #7
prezident hate. truthisfreedom Jul 2017 #3
How about letting Social Security fail too Donnie?? You don't "own" that one either.......n/t Bengus81 Jul 2017 #6

bucolic_frolic

(42,661 posts)
1. Alarming
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:19 AM
Jul 2017

that the rest of GOP Senators would go along with this survival-of-the-fittest
let-the-sick-weak-poor-die bill.

Who can defend the heartless inhumanity and lack of empathy in this bill?

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
2. I don't wish pain and illness upon anyone, but
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:32 AM
Jul 2017

their behavior makes me wish a very expensive illness, like cancer, happened close in their families and that they had to look at the bills, see how inadequate their health savings accounts are, and realize that bad things can happen to anyone.

machoneman

(3,951 posts)
4. It's called schadenfreude.
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:55 AM
Jul 2017

Schadenfreude is an old German saying that essentially means taking pleasure or joy in another's bad luck, illness, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

I agree that this is not cool yet......it will take a lot of pain and suffering by most Republiscum's families or the elected official themselves to get their collective heads out of their asses and realize what harm they have done.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
5. I won't take joy in it; there is no schadenfreude here.
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 07:36 AM
Jul 2017

I just want them to develop some empathy for the tribulations of others.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
7. Never happen
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 08:46 AM
Jul 2017

They've all got excellent health coverage, and many of them have become very rich besides. A horrible medical emergency would cause a blip for them financially but would never make them wonder how the poor would handle it.

They are all sold to large campaign donors who don't want high taxes to pay for healthcare for the rest of us, and that's the only constituency they care about.

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