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July 18, 2017 09:37 AM UTC

Gardner: "If you repeal it now, with nothing in its place, what happens if you don't find that replacement?"

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

With U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky’s announcement that he’s dumped his bill to replace Obamacare and, instead, will push legislation to repeal the health care law without replacing it for up to two years, a comment by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) sounds a ton more significant today than it did July 6 when Gardner uttered it on KNUS 710-AM’s Dan Caplis Show.

CAPLIS: And last question: as you know, Ben Sasse and some others have been talking about, now, “repeal and replace later, separately.” Where do you come down on that?

GARDNER: Look, I think that if you repeal it now, with nothing in its place, what happens if you don’t find that replacement? What happens if you don’t reach that agreement? And I think that we ought to move forward with an idea now, and put a solution forward to the American people. Look, this is something that Republicans and Democrats ought to find common ground with, because if Democrats refuse to find a solution to a failing Obamacare, shame on them!

CAPLIS: Right.

GARDNER: And that’s what we have to realize, is, the status quo isn’t good enough. And the alternative is a single-payer healthcare system. And look what happened in England, right now, with that child. The parents no longer have the ability to help — excuse me, no longer have the ability to determine their child’s state, because it’s in the hands of the government.

Gardner has yet to talk to journalists about the implosion of the senate healthcare legislation, so, for now, this looks like the only comment reporters have to go on from our senator, who’s a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate and who helped draft McConnell’s bill.

Listen to Gardner on KNUS-710-AM July 6:

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18 thoughts on “Gardner: “If you repeal it now, with nothing in its place, what happens if you don’t find that replacement?””

  1. Gardner continues his lying ways…he is blaming the Democrats for his party's failures…how did this fucktard get elected in the first place?

  2. Repeal the law and do nothing — yeah, right, because nothing will do more to provide needed assurance to insuers than total and complete uncertainty???

    It's almost as if someone proposed building Trump's border wall from coal, and these morons jump on it as a good idea??

    The ability of the Republican ruling class to think through anything has been selectively bred out from their collective gene pool . . . 

  3. Gardner, being the obedient servant, will do exactly as he is told.  The only problem he might face is if McConnell and the Koch brothers aren't in complete agreement about how to screw America even harder.

  4. Moldy must be creaming his diapers at the prospect of straight repeal.  Even though he won't say how a full repeal with no replacement is better for the American people.

        1. Let me see if I understand this, you're wanting Moderatus to respond to you with something not-stupid, but thought out and fact-based, huh? . . . 

          . . . so. who's being stupid now?

          ;~)

           

            1. Far be it from me to discourage your noble quest.  (God knows the world is filled with windmills and white whales that need to be dealt with.)

              My only suggestion would be to maybe start a bit smaller . . . 

              . . . why not see if you could be the first ever here to get him to stop soiling the carpets?

      1. Gardner is truly a master of deflection. I suppose the poor Gard baby will be the poster child against any serious talk of Medicare for All. FWIW, I think that the National Health service is within its rights to make a medical decision not to try the experimental surgery to save the little tyke, and I think that his parents should have the right to try the new treatment using private or crowd-funded monies. 

        As if the US would be bound to follow, robot-like, in Britain's footsteps. It seems to me we had a revolution a couple of hundred years back which declared our independence and sovereignty, or something.

        1. National Health service is within its rights to make a medical decision not to try the experimental surgery 

          It's not like private insurance companies in this country never do that.

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