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March 23, 2017 11:30 AM UTC

Trumpcare's Day of Reckoning

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Watch this space throughout the day as new information becomes available on a potential House vote on Trumpcare.

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1:28 pm: The House punts:

 

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1:23 pm: The House has not even begun the process of moving Trumpcare toward a vote on the floor — which by itself can take several hours.

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12:45 pm: The “Freedom Caucus” may have killed Trumpcare — at least for today. As Politico explains:

President Donald Trump and conservative House Freedom Caucus members failed to strike a deal on the GOP Obamacare replacement Thursday, endangering the prospects of passage and all but assuring any immediate vote on the measure would fail.

Negotiations between Trump and the arch-conservatives opponents of the bill reached at least a temporary standstill after Freedom Caucus members were told recent concessions to the far-right were a final offer. The group rejected that, wanting more.

Trump’s inability to clinch an agreement means that Speaker Paul Ryan does not likely have the votes needed to pass the measure. [Pols emphasis] The Wisconsin Republican can afford to lose only 22 votes on the floor. The House Freedom Caucus, however, has three dozen members, who have vowed to block the bill unless they get what they want. Roughly a dozen centrist Republicans also have come out against the bill.

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11:39 am: The conservative House Freedom Caucus says “no deal!”

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11:30 am: New polling numbers continue to show widespread public opposition to Trumpcare. From TPM:

American voters oppose the GOP health care bill by a three-to-one margin, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday.

The poll found that 56 percent of respondents opposed the American Health Care Act, compared to only 17 percent who supported the bill. Twenty-six percent did not know or had no answer.

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10:02 am: Opponents of Trumpcare are literally lining the halls outside House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office today.

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9:55 am: The Washington Post sets the stage for today’s healthcare battle:

The Republican health-care overhaul faces its greatest test ever Thursday as President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) work feverishly to persuade enough Republican lawmakers to back the measure and push it to a floor vote.

Late Wednesday, the White House and House leaders were still scrambling to boost support, and signaled at the 11th hour a willingness to rework the measure to mollify conservatives. On Thursday morning, House leaders postponed a 9 a.m. meeting of the entire GOP Conference, signaling that negotiations were still underway.

As of late Thursday morning, 36 House Republicans — mainly conservatives — had announced their opposition to the bill, known as the American Health Care Act.

After insisting for weeks that the changes sought by hard-right members would render the bill unable to pass the Senate, White House officials and GOP House leaders appeared to shift their thinking — and opponents agreed to keep working on a deal with the goal of holding a floor vote in the House by Thursday night.

 

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16 thoughts on “Trumpcare’s Day of Reckoning”

  1. How poetic is that this is the 7th anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act legislation?

    It will be interesting to see if Colorado Republicans in the House are fired up to implement Trumpcare.  We're looking at you Mike Coffman.  You really want to go there?

    It is a big 'IF' for the Republican lemmings but what if it doesn't get the votes?  That will spark some interesting post-vote finger pointing.

      1. Do you suppose Trump will have them imprisoned..?…or try a different approach and see if he can bribe them with a time share at Mar-a-Lago and a date with Ivanka?

  3. The "no" votes on the Republican side are mad that their bill doesn't go farther. This is what they want. Reposted from High Plains Indivisible:

    Well, here it is. They are now renegotiating the bill in order to eliminate the following benefits:

    TEN ESSENTIAL BENEFITS
    • Maternity and newborn care
    • Hospitalization
    • Prescription drugs
    • Laboratory services
    • Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
    • Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
    • Ambulatory patient services
    • Emergency services
    • Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
    • Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices

    1. The Hospitalization one really stands out but it is going to be something great for the 99% of the people who don't need hospitalization today.

    2. It wasn't cruel enough.  What's weird is that this bill will have no real effect on the deficit which is what the Freedom Caucus members were elected to address.  They are OK with the tax cuts for the rich as long as it is paid for by the poor.  As Bart pointed out: What Assholes.

      1. Eliminating the EHB would explode the costs of this bill. Insurers would offer worthless, high deductible policies priced right at the tax credit amount. Nearly everyone would buy a policy because it's essentially free. That could cost $100 billion or more.

        1. You mean $100,000,000,000.00 government hand out.  That's a lot of zero's representing government money going to insurers.  I wonder who is going to make out on that deal?

    1. They are at an Urgent Care center getting treated for constant constipation.  I'm sure they will be along soon to pontificate how it is all Obama's fault that the ACA is the result of a year long process on how to implement health care coverage for the widest possible coverage.  Who knew they put so many details in the law that don't benefit the rich?

  5. the LIES that Democrats let Republicans repeat for 7 years as this law was slowly improving the lives of millions: 

    For over seven years, right-wing media have launched an assault on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — a law that has yielded great gains in the economy and public health, especially for the most vulnerable — pushing multiple myths and false claims about the law. On the law’s seventh anniversary, Republicans hoped to repeal the ACA and pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which contains a wish list of harmful conservative media-backed policies.

    Twelve Myths And Smears Right-Wing Media Have Pushed Against The ACA

    FACT: The ACA Never Created "Death Panels"

    FACT: Obamacare Did Not Destroy Jobs Or Force Workers Into Part-Time Positions

    FACT: Obamacare Was Passed After More Than A Year Of “Transparent” Debate

    FACT: There Were Always Enough Young People Signed Up To Avoid A “Death Spiral”

    FACT: State Medicaid Expansion Is Largely Covered By The Federal Government And Ends Up Saving Money For States

    FACT: The Uninsured Rate Is At An All-Time Low Due To The ACA

    FACT: The ACA Is Built On The Private Health Insurance System

    FACT: The ACA Excludes Those “Not Lawfully Present” In The US

    FACT: The ACA Does Not Provide Government Payment For Abortions

    FACT: The ACA Helps Diminsh Income Inequality

    FACT: Taxpayer Money Is Not Being Used To Bail Out Insurers

    FACT: Obamacare Is Not In A “Death Spiral”

    The ACA Has Resulted In Economic And Public Health Gains

    At The Same Time, Right-Wing Media Pushed For Harmful Policies That Are Included In The AHCA

    FACT: HSAs Help The Wealthy, The Healthy, And The Educated — Not The Uninsured

    FACT: High-Risk Pools Historically Fail, Resulting In Less Coverage And Skyrocketing Costs For States And Consumers

    FACT: Block Granting Medicaid Is A Benefit Cut And Would Increase The Number Of Uninsured

    FACT: Work Requirements For Medicaid Are “Unnecessary And Counterproductive”

    FACT: Health Care Clinics Cannot Make Up For The Loss Of Planned Parenthood

    The AHCA Is A Giant Tax Break For The Wealthy That Would Drastically Increase The Number Of People Uninsured

     

  6. Oooh, oooh!  Just saw Mike Coffman's mug on TV (during Wheel of Fortune 🙂 sponsored by AFP with support, no doubt, from our own Three Stooges!

    Let's all give a big round of THANKS (like the ad said) to Mike Coffman for bringing us a new Trumpcare (I still say it should be DontCare) law that brings us better coverage including pre-existing conditions and our youngun's under 26 with LOWER COSTS!  Woo Hoo!

    Guess they booked the ad thinking that the Free Dumb caucus (led by Ken Phucked) would be Svengali'd by that masterful negotiator Buffoon-in-Chief Trump.

    Ooopsie devil

     

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