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madamesilverspurs

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Tue Jul 18, 2017, 02:04 PM Jul 2017

The real story of the failed Obamacare repeal: GOP cant handle the truth

The great lie of the long-running Obamacare debate has officially been revealed. The reason Republicans spent seven years without offering their own health care plan is that they don’t have one, they’ve never had one, and, the way it looks, they never will have one.

That’s because there is no plan that offers better coverage for less money. There is no plan that can pass muster with voters if it robs hundreds of billions from Medicaid and deposits that money into the hands of the most wealthy. There is no acceptable plan that doesn’t insure as many people as possible or cover pre-existing conditions or allows junk insurance policies to set lifetime caps.
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Four Republicans stepped up — three, we should add, for entirely wrong reasons — to block the bill from even being debated. I’m old enough to remember when you needed 60 votes to cut off debate in the Senate. Once again, mastermind Mitch McConnell couldn’t manage to get to 50.

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http://www.coloradoindependent.com/166355/littwin-obamacare-repeal-trump-mcconnell-gardner-moran-collins


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The real story of the failed Obamacare repeal: GOP cant handle the truth (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Jul 2017 OP
Release the Risk Corridors underpants Jul 2017 #1
The GOP does not believe in government and so the GOP is bad at governing Gothmog Jul 2017 #2
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