House GOP reveals AHCA: Update - Repeal of ACA IS BACK ON

[N.J.stan]

Thought the healthcare fukkery was done for the week. Looks like we going into overtime

 

[hashmander]

What's Missing From This Photo of Politicians Deciding the Future of Women's Health? | Mother Jones

i don't see anything wrong with that. 53% of white women voted to have their husbands speak for them this past november. i see a lot of white males in that pic so that means they have the proxy votes of a lot of white women.

 

[Jhoon]

Nothing is more hilarious to me than setting arbitrary hard deadlines for no reason. They could have actually taken their time to hash out a good bill. But they didn't!

What's a good bill?

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[88m3]

The New York Times
3 mins ·
President Trump has told people close to him that he regrets going along with Paul Ryan's plan to push a health care overhaul.


Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self-Doubt
People close to President Trump say he is grappling with bouts of self-doubt as…
NYTIMES.COM

This is rich

 

[JahFocus CS]

Trump taking L after L

 

[choc_cardigan]

The New York Times
3 mins ·
President Trump has told people close to him that he regrets going along with Paul Ryan's plan to push a health care overhaul.


Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self-Doubt
People close to President Trump say he is grappling with bouts of self-doubt as…
NYTIMES.COM

This is rich

The fukkery

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[88m3]

If Mr. Trump has any advantage in the negotiations, it is his ideological flexibility: He is more interested in a win, or avoiding a loss, than any of the arcane policy specifics of the complicated measure, according to a dozen aides and allies interviewed over the past week who described his mood as impatient and jittery. Already, he has shown that flexibility by going back on campaign promises that no one would lose coverage when the Affordable Care Acrt was replaced and he wouldn’t cut Medicaid.

Until this week, Mr. Trump was slow to recognize the high stakes of the fight, or the implications of losing. He approved the agenda putting health care first late last year, almost in passing, in meetings with Mr. Ryan, Vice President Mike Pence and Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff.

Staff members agreed on a hasty rollout strategy during weekend meetings earlier this month — with Mr. Pence suggesting that the president maintain distance from the proposal, urging him to refer to the bill as Mr. Ryan’s creation, according to senior Republicans.

Only in the past two weeks, as Mr. Trump focused on his ongoing defense of accusations that his presidential campaign colluded with Russia, has he focused his energies and powers of persuasion on ramming through a proposal that is likely to result in the loss of health insurance for millions, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump made a key concession to fiscal hawks by agreeing to scrap the health care law’s provision mandating “essential benefits” — like outpatient visits, mental health services and some maternity care — in a bid to lower premiums. But that was not enough. Representative Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who leads the Freedom Caucus, said he was still a no.

That concession also risked alienating center-right Republicans in the House and Senate, where the bill already faced an uncertain fate.

“In order to get this bill out of the House, they have pushed this bill too far to the right,” said Representative Charlie Dent, a moderate Pennsylvania Republican who planned to vote against the legislation, and who was singled out for pressure by Mr. Trump at a meeting on Thursday. “It’s a mistake. Even if it passes, the Senate will never accept it.”

David Winston, a pollster who works with the House Republican leadership, said any delay could block Mr. Trump’s entire agenda. “You’re not looking at health care in isolation; you’re looking at an agenda that they want to pursue, and obviously the next big one coming up is going to be tax reform,” he said. “Whichever came first was going to set up the other.”

 

[88m3]

But Thursday’s reality check came with a Trumpian dose of the surreal.

Mr. Trump appeared almost oblivious to the dire situation unfolding in the hours after he hosted a meeting with members of the House Freedom Caucus at the White House, where he made the case Mr. Winston pointed to — that not passing the health bill risks the rest of the Republican agenda.

In the midafternoon, a beaming Mr. Trump climbed into the rig of a black tractor-trailer, which had been driven to the White House for an event with trucking industry executives, honking the horn and posing for a series of tough-guy photos — one with his fists held aloft, another staring straight ahead, hands gripping the large wheel, his face compressed into an excited scream.

At a meeting inside shortly after, Mr. Trump announced that he was pressed for time and needed to go make calls for more votes.

A reporter informed him that the vote had already been called off.

 

[Airfeezy]

Don't be surprised Brehs Rich Cacs always gonna Rich Cac...They stand to gain alot if this passes huge tax cuts for themselves and their rich buddies who I'm sure are lining their pockets to get this passed I'm hoping it doesn't but you never know

 

[ineedsleep212]

Looking at what they want to get rid of, what in the blue hell would be the point of insurance if it doesn't cover shyt?

 

[88m3]

Looking at what they want to get rid of, what in the blue hell would be the point of insurance if it doesn't cover shyt?

If they were to pass this in the "purest form" the blowback would be instant. I don't get the point either honestly...

Some people want to blah blah about tax cuts and savings for the rich but it's really moot if you're paying for care out of pocket.


Obviously the working class can't afford health care and will perish so I guess that's their goal/

 

[Zee Scribe]

Looking at what they want to get rid of, what in the blue hell would be the point of insurance if it doesn't cover shyt?

The Republicans don't actually believe in providing health insurance to people without money. They believe that all of these things are moral failings and we should not "punish" the wealthy by making them pay for these things.