Ah. So you're a mind reader then?
Why bother? It's called 'revealed preferences'. Look it up.
Ah. So you're a mind reader then?
Senator John McCain said Friday he’ll vote against the GOP-only Obamacare repeal proposal, becoming the second Republican to oppose the measure and possibly dooming the ability of party leaders to enact it.
“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal," McCain of Arizona said in a statement. "I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried."
Another GOPer effort done for no other reason than partisan politics fortunately only can get 49 GOPer senators to kill their own constituents.
Do you really think Rand Paul will be the deciding vote against Graham-Cassidy? The one area I could tolerate him on, opposition to security service overreach, he sold his soul, not for Wales, but for a chance to be a presidential nominee.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Another GOPer effort done for no other reason than partisan politics fortunately only can get 49 GOPer senators to kill their own constituents.
Do you really think Rand Paul will be the deciding vote against Graham-Cassidy? The one area I could tolerate him on, opposition to security service overreach, he sold his soul, not for Wales, but for a chance to be a presidential nominee.
BBC is reporting Collins is "leaning against the bill" and Murkowski has not commented while Graham and Cassidy are rapidly trying to sweeten the deal with extra funding for areas the demographically just happen to exactly resemble Alaska.Have Murkowski or Collins weighed in on their positions?
You know, so much of that is because people mistake Trickle Down for Supply Side. Like, so so sooooooo much.
BBC is reporting Collins is "leaning against the bill" and Murkowski has not commented while Graham and Cassidy are rapidly trying to sweeten the deal with extra funding for areas the demographically just happen to exactly resemble Alaska.
I can see Collins voting for it because, as far as I am aware, Graham-Cassidy basically shifts all of the potential repeal stuff to the states leaving open the option for the state to keep the parts of the ACA they like. Block grants vs. payment gets complicated very quickly so she could punt on that and claim the bill won't leave Maine any worse off, but has the added benefit of returning control to the states, which is a concept that tends to play well among centrist Republicans, and presumably in Maine as IIRC they tend to have an anti-establishment preference.
Similar to Murkowski, but with the caveats that it comes down to whether Graham and Cassidy can load it up with enough sweet spots to win her over, and whether her inner moral disgust as being bought like that comes into play.
Unlike McCain, Collins and Murkowski are both going to run for a second term so they have to worry about conservative backlash in primaries. Murkowski perhaps not so much as she mounted a third party run after she lost the primary to a Teahadist and won handily, but I'm sure she doesn't want to go through that again.
McCain can get away with voting against it because he has the "old, crotchety elder statesman" effect going on. Murkowski and Collins don't. I don't buy for a second Paul or the other Moran, Portman, or Sullivan (who are holding out to extract concessions or for image cred) will willingly be the vote to sink Graham-Cassidy, and I presume Murkowski and Collins are under all the political pressure to switch their minds, especially after causing the high-profile collapse earlier this summer. If they can keep their basic dignity, I'm pretty sure Graham-Cassidy fails. Otherwise, it gets rammed through in method that would make Great Comrade Stalin they were abusing the rules a bit.
Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday abandoned their latest campaign to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, conceding that their plan lacked key support. But they showed little interest in moving swiftly to shore up the seven-year-old law with the crucial funding it needs.
The official collapse of the Cassidy-Graham health-care bill once again leaves the party short of fulfilling a signature promise, which some Republicans worried could inspire a backlash among their base heading into the 2018 midterm elections.
And the failure of that alternative to the ACA, combined with the GOP’s reluctance to fix weaknesses in the existing law, leaves states, insurers and millions of consumers who rely on its coverage with substantial uncertainty. Enrollment begins in barely a month for 2018 health plans in marketplaces created under the law.
The Senate leaders said they would turn their attention to their next major legislative undertaking. “Where we go from here is tax reform,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters after holding a closed-door policy lunch with members of his caucus.
Republicans already are bracing for the political fallout from the measure proposed by Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.)., which McConnell had hoped to bring to a vote this week. They said the pressure to pass a tax overhaul bill was higher than ever and hoped the Republican base would give them a bit more time to take another shot at repealing the ACA.
I think it's the other way around. The GOP cannot make up its mind, which might be worse.The GOP already made up their minds that not passing some kind of R&R bill is worse for them than passing one, regardless of how bad the bill is that they pass. It might not be a very sensible position to have taken, but it's clearly the one they've settled on. So they WILL keep trying.
Now we are stuck with ACA for another year, which is definitely worse. J
Iam sure the GOP can come up with something by next year in time for the election
All, not some... all of the Republican antics are smoke and mirrors. There's no substance there whatsoever its just a bunch of malarkey from top to bottom. And if the Democrats are feeling any sense of security... its false.Maybe they already have something and are just saving it for the election while all these other antics are just smoke and mirrors to lull Democrats into a false sense of security?
That is sort of what they tried to do with Graham-Cassidy. Shift everything to block grants and let the states determine minimum quality of coverage. A lot of GOP controlled states also intentionally hamstrung the ACA by refusing to expand Medicaid. Unfortunately, anyone who has looked at public policy knows that block grants for open-ended commitments are rubbish for any purpose other than forcing cuts to services.Can the Republicans just repeal the health care laws for the red states? The blue states perform well with Obamacare.