Paul Ryan Rushes to White House to Tell Trump Votes Are Still Lacking to Repeal Obamacare

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SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES


URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html

By ROBERT PEAR, JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JENNIFER STEINHAUER


WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, rushed to the White House Friday afternoon to inform President Trump he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration.

The president and the speaker faced the humiliating prospect of a major defeat on legislation promised for seven years, since the landmark health legislation was signed into law. President Trump had demanded a vote regardless, which has been scheduled for Friday afternoon. But House leaders were leaning against such a public loss.

The House opened debate Friday on what would have been one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in years, a bill that would have rolled back a major, established social welfare program, a feat that is almost unheard of.

The Republican legislation, called the American Health Care Act, would end the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that almost everyone have health care, replacing it with a system of age-based tax credits to purchase health insurance — a shift that would save the government hundreds of billions of dollars and would cut taxes, but could leave 24 million more Americans without coverage in a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

Oh hell, suck it up, hold the vote, and lose.  Much better to have a losing vote and all the repercussions that come from that, than no vote at all.  Having no vote at all just freezes things where they are.  Having a major vote and losing publicly has a way of spicing things up a bit. 

[Idiot]

Turns out this piece of legislation is pure crap and Trump jumped on the bandwagon.  So who is really to blame?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

What there's a bill out there to repeal it. Which one. I'll I see is Twerk and Tweak not Repeal and Replace.

[RetBobbyMI]

I bet if they voted on the same repeal bill that passed in 2015, it would pass. Then take up replace, if that is truly needed.

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Paul Ryan Rushes to White House to Tell Trump Votes Are Still Lacking to Repeal Obamacare

The title is a lie.  There is no lack of votes to repeal Obamacare.  There is only a lack of votes to implement Obamacare-Lite which is what Ryan and the GOP leadership is pushing.