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McConnell Makes $105B in Changes to Healthcare Bill to Woo Votes.
« on: June 30, 2017, 12:29:11 am »
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday made $105 billion in changes to the chamber's healthcare bill with the intention of winning back some votes from Republican holdouts, the Washington Examiner reported.

Roughly nine conservative and moderate Republican senators voiced their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), forcing McConnell to postpone the vote until after the July 4 recess.

So the Kentucky Republican went to work, adding $45 billion to fight opioid abuse (favored by centrists) and allow health savings accounts (HSA) to be used toward premiums (favored by conservatives), the Examiner reported.

The HSA change is expected to reduce revenues by $60 billion, with both changes expected to cut deficit reduction by $105 billion, the Examiner reported...

Read more at: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/mcconnell-changes-senate-gop/2017/06/29/id/798996/
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Re: McConnell Makes $105B in Changes to Healthcare Bill to Woo Votes.
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2017, 01:29:39 am »
If Mitch "repeal-it-root-and-branch" McConnell does not do full repeal root and branch - he is just working to implement Single Payer.

Never saw McConnell working so hard to save anything as hard as he is working to save ObamaCare.
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Re: McConnell Makes $105B in Changes to Healthcare Bill to Woo Votes.
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2017, 01:46:20 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on June 30, 2017, 12:29:11 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday made $105 billion in changes to the chamber's healthcare bill with the intention of winning back some votes from Republican holdouts, the Washington Examiner reported.

Roughly nine conservative and moderate Republican senators voiced their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), forcing McConnell to postpone the vote until after the July 4 recess.

So the Kentucky Republican went to work, adding $45 billion to fight opioid abuse (favored by centrists) and allow health savings accounts (HSA) to be used toward premiums (favored by conservatives), the Examiner reported.

The HSA change is expected to reduce revenues by $60 billion, with both changes expected to cut deficit reduction by $105 billion, the Examiner reported...

Read more at: http://www.newsmax.com/politics/mcconnell-changes-senate-gop/2017/06/29/id/798996/
Spending money we do not have and increasing our debt makes a mockery for the conservatives who elected these weasels into office.
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