Trumpcare: Let's Try Again--And Again, And Again...

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by: Colorado Pols

Zombie Trumpcare.

Politico reports on the latest undead proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act circulating among U.S. Senate Republicans, this one courtesy Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Call ’em gluttons for punishment:

Senate Republicans couldn’t agree on a way to repeal and replace Obamacare. So now they’re contemplating a totally different approach: Blow it up and let the states sort it out.

The latest attempt to resuscitate the GOP’s repeal bid would reshape the nation’s health care system by sharply curtailing the federal government’s role and placing the future of Obamacare in the hands of governors. But Republican senators will have a hard time overcoming the internal divisions that doomed their three attempts last week to unravel the Affordable Care Act…

The so-called Graham-Cassidy plan would still force deep health spending cuts, as well as set new limits that would end Medicaid’s open-ended entitlement status and threaten subsidies designed to help people afford coverage. Each element could raise objections from moderate GOP senators. That comes on top of keeping nearly all of Obamacare’s taxes, a likely deal-breaker for conservatives still intent on scrapping the entire law.

We’re obliged to mention this latest highly unlikely attempt to pass an Obamacare repeal bill for two reasons: first that it exists, and second because based on experience Sen. Cory Gardner would likely vote for it like he did every version of Obamacare repeal that came up for a vote this last round. But beyond that it’s very difficult to see this latest grab-bag of contradictions going anywhere, since it doesn’t really do anything to bring the intractably opposed Republicans in this debate together.

With the exception of President Donald Trump and far-right diehards who don’t know when to quit, repealing the Affordable Care Act is fast becoming a subject Republicans only want to change.

12 thoughts on “Trumpcare: Let’s Try Again–And Again, And Again…”

RepealAndReplace says:

August 1, 2017 at 12:40 pm

Have they not tortured the Senate Republicans enough with this issue?

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1. Diogenesdemar says:
  
  August 1, 2017 at 1:12 pm
  
  "Enough"???? . . .
  
  . . . not in your wildest “American Dreams"!!!
  
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bullshit! says:

August 1, 2017 at 12:52 pm

This bill is as dead as Lindsey Graham is in the closet. Very very dead.

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Moderatus says:

August 1, 2017 at 3:06 pm

Republicans desperately need a win. We're never going to get Democrats to vote for us, so please repeal Obamacare to make sure the GOP base doesn't stay home in 2018. It doesn't matter how much they riot. Stay the course!

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1. unnamed says:
  
  August 1, 2017 at 3:16 pm
  
  Oh look Moldy's back from crying. If you get your wish, what will you tell people who lose their insurance because they have a preexisting condition? It had to happen because the GOP needs a win? Your party can't govern.
  
  Maybe no Dem will vote for Repubs because they know Republicans are evil, Unamerican and are fine with people dying because they have shitty healthcare. Oh, they also can't govern.
  
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  1. Diogenesdemar says:
    
    August 1, 2017 at 5:10 pm
    
    It's a slightly improved version; I dunno' how, but he got the "desperate" right . . .
    
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2. OrangeFree says:
  
  August 1, 2017 at 5:00 pm
  
  The GOP needs a win vs. the millions who need their healthcare.
  
  Which is more important, one wonders…
  
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  1. Gilpin Guy says:
    
    August 1, 2017 at 8:38 pm
    
    EXTRA EXTRA GOP NEEDS A WIN
    
    Who gives a fuck about actually doing something that benefits the nation. The GOP needs a win.
    
    And then they wonder why people detest them and their power obsession that achieves nothing. What horrible not Pro-Life people.
    
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  2. Davie says:
    
    August 1, 2017 at 8:42 pm
    
    Ah, Moldy longs for the good old days when people had to go bankrupt before dying! Serves 'em right for choosing to be poor and having the bad judgement of being born with a pre-existing condition.
    
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FrankUnderwood says:

August 1, 2017 at 5:10 pm

Here's a disturbing headline that will piss off both Moldy and Zappy at the same time…..

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/senators-launch-bipartisan-effort-to-shore-up-obamacare.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

It looks like there may be another grown up on the GOP side of the Senate besides McCain, Murkowski and Collins. Who knew?

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1. Diogenesdemar says:
  
  August 1, 2017 at 5:13 pm
  
  Yeah, that's what they said about Capito . . .
  
  . . . when the roll calling begins, guess which hole these rats will scurry for?!?
  
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  1. FrankUnderwood says:
    
    August 1, 2017 at 5:24 pm
    
    Isn't something like 50% of her state is on Medicaid? (But they still hate Obamacare.)
    
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