Midnight health care massacre: Republicans take middle-of-the-night vote to pave way to kill the ACA

[Bill USA]

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Republicans still don't have an idea on what they'll do to replace the Affordable Care Act

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/12/republican-led-senate-takes-first-step-to-repeal-obamacare/

The Senate early has passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law, responding to pressure to move quickly even as Republicans and President-elect Trump grapple with what to replace it with.

The nearly party-line 51-48 vote early Thursday came on a nonbinding Republican-backed budget measure that eases the way for action on subsequent repeal legislation as soon as next month.

“We must act quickly to bring relief to the American people,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

The House is slated to vote on the measure on Friday, though some Republicans there have misgivings about setting the repeal effort in motion without a better idea of the replacement plan.

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[guillaumeb]

1. McConnell and the GOP "relieving" 20 million Americans

of their healthcare.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Relief to the American people?

Seriously...he is such a bastard.

[Thor_MN]

3. As long as you think in their terms, it makes a certain sort of sense

The only American people that count (in their minds) are the richest 1%. And repealing the ACA will bring relief in the form of tax cuts to the richest 1%.

That is a seriously F'ed up way of thinking, but it isn't a lie in their minds.