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GOP ACA Replacement Imminent....Predictions

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What will GOP ACA Replacement look like?

  • It won't happen, they won't pass either repeal or replacement

    Votes: 29 28.7%

  • It won't happen, they will only repeal and not replace

    Votes: 8 7.9%

  • Replacement will look mostly like ACA, except worse

    Votes: 45 44.6%

  • Replacement will look mostly like ACA, except better

    Votes: 5 5.0%

  • Replacement will look completely different from ACA, except worse

    Votes: 14 13.9%

  • Replacement will look completely different from ACA, except better

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    101
What insane person would ever vote Republican after this display of carelessness about legislating responsibly? I've never even heard of something so insane happening in a country's parliament.

Vox - The Obamacare repeal debate is now a completely bonkers game of chicken

On Thursday evening, mere hours before the Senate is supposed to vote on a health care bill, the United States Capitol is in chaos.

This is what we actually know:

  • Senate Republicans have still not released the actual text of whatever they will vote on at the end of their debate, probably Friday morning.
  • Many Republican senators don’t want their bill, whatever it is, to actually become law. But they might still vote for it, because they want to pass some bill, any bill, and then open up negotiations with the House on a bigger health care package.
  • There are rampant if unverifiable rumors that House Republicans are prepared to pass whatever the Senate sends them, perhaps as soon as Friday,
  • Some senators are threatening not to vote for their own health care bill unless House Republicans assure them that they will not pass the Senate bill.
The real story is that Republicans, after seven years of promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, are unable to come up with a plan to actually do that, and it has come crashing down on them at the finish line. The Senate is hours away from voting on a bill, without knowing what it is or whether it could become federal law in a matter of hours.

One congressional staffer sent me an email with the subject line: “This is insane.”

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Ryan has said they'll take it to conference but expects the Senate to act first in anything that results. Statement kind of implies a knife over the senate to craft a house acceptable bill or risk them passing the skinny.

Senators begin negotiations bent over with their pants around their ankles. Not sure this is an attractive option.
 
Can the American people petition a court to commit Republican Senators to an mental hospital for observation as a danger to themselves and others?
 
K1052 said:
House GOP meeting tomorrow morning to figure out WTF to do now.
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The mainstream political parties are in disarray and do more bickering than anything else. They have prompted me to change my party affiliation to NPA which I accomplished earlier today.
 
The House will be able to blackmail the Senate by threatening to make what the Senate voted for into law. Really, McConnell will be Ryan's bitch.
 
senseamp said:
The House will be able to blackmail the Senate by threatening to make what the Senate voted for into law. Really, McConnell will be Ryan's bitch.
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I agree on this. The house will get what they want or will pass the skinny bill into law, torching the US healthcare and insurance system. The senate will have to bend over to the house and take it dry on this deal, and the house knows it.
 
I'll bet bet it passes, the conference fails, Ryan says FU and passes the skinny which Trump signs into law having no idea what it does.
 
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I'll bet bet it passes, the conference fails, Ryan says FU and passes the skinny which Trump signs into law having no idea what it does.
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Either that or the Senate GOP rushes in and passes the house version previously passed and sends it to Trump first, to avoid the skinny from being passed.
 
One idea I saw is if the skinny becomes law that blue states could pass mandates. The rest of the ACA taxes left intact so the money would flow.

States that don't pass a mandate would be totally fucked.
 
Engineer said:
LOL.
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If you strike down Obamacare it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

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At least until the 2018 elections and Obamas legacy is the utter destruction of the Republican Party from backlash rather than Obamacare.
 
McCain reportedly had a angry conversation with the whip and spent his time nodding along to Schumer's speech. FWTIW
 
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