GOP Senate leader says he'll unveil new health bill Thursday

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GOP Senate leader says he'll unveil new health bill Thursday

By alan fram and erica werner, associated press

WASHINGTON — Jul 11, 2017, 3:19 PM ET
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Senate Republicans will unveil their revised health care bill Thursday and begin voting on it next week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. He said he would delay the chamber's August recess for two weeks as the GOP tries breaking logjams that have slowed work on that and other issues.

McConnell, R-Ky., described his plans to reporters as the prospects for the divided party's drive to repeal much of President Barack Obama's health care law seemed as gloomy as ever. Earlier, one Republican senator said he is "very pessimistic" that the health care measure will be approved, while another warned leaders about retaliation by conservative voters should they react to a collapse of the measure by striking a deal with Democrats.

Underscoring the uncertainty, No. 3 Senate GOP leader John Thune of South Dakota would not make predictions about the health care vote.

"I think we have narrowed it down to where we know where the decision points are," he said.

With at least a dozen Republicans opposing or challenging parts of McConnell's bill, the leader has been working on revisions aimed at bringing more GOP senators on board. These included how tightly to curb the growth of Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor; whether to let insurers sell low-cost policies with very limited coverage; and how much money to devote to making health care tax credits more generous.

"I'm very pessimistic," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said on the Fox News Channel of the chances a bill will pass.

Grassley, first elected in 1980, said that Republicans have been promising for years to repeal Obama's 2010 statute and said, "There are consequences if you don't deliver on election promises, and there ought to be."

Over the weekend, Grassley tweeted that if Republicans don't complete a bill, "WE WILL GO FROM MAJORITY TO MINORITY."

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[Applewood]

It ain't repeal, as we were promised.

[Emjay]

It ain't repeal, as we were promised.

I didn't go to the link but not much detail there.  Who is McConnell conferring with besides Schumer. It doesn't mention Lee or Cruz.

[Fantom]

Everyone who voted for Ted Cruz and Donald Trump should just stay home until it is repealed... every last word. Well at least Ted voters. But I would hope Trump voters would join.

[INVAR]

I find it simply amazing that the Democrats having control of all 3 branches as the GOP does now -  were able to write ObamaCare in secret, not allow anyone to read it, pass it in the middle of the night without a single GOP vote and without a single representative having read the bill...into "law" (with final help from John Roberts at SCOTUS who made an illegal action, legal).

... and the Republicans cannot do likewise to end it.  They steadfastly refuse and toss us a zillion excuses about lack of votes or 'we can't' without Democrat support and all the other assorted bovine excrement that they fling at us to silence us.



It is obvious McConnell and the majority of the Oligarchy in the Republican party have no intention whatsoever to repeal ObamaCare "root and branch" as they campaigned on, and promised and promised again while making kabuki theater attempts to repeal non-starters in order to placate their outraged base.

They could have defunded it.

They refused.

They fully funded it, even while pretending to want to repeal it.

They know we do not want a 'new GOP-Approved ObamaCare bill'.

We want it GONE.

But they do not care what we little people want, and they willfully will try to make us all forget why they were given majorities.

The truth is that they want the power of life and death over us, same as the Democrats.  They want a seat with access to the billions and billions that will flow to their nests and the absolute control over our lives in every minute detail that it will give them when Single Payer is rolled out.

ObamaCare, or GOPCare will make that inevitability a 100% assurance.

Because the Republican Party today - stands for Socialism better managed.

[austingirl]

I find it simply amazing that the Democrats having control of all 3 branches as the GOP does now -  were able to write ObamaCare in secret, not allow anyone to read it, pass it in the middle of the night without a single GOP vote and without a single representative having read the bill...into "law" (with final help from John Roberts at SCOTUS who made an illegal action, legal).

... and the Republicans cannot do likewise to end it.  They steadfastly refuse and toss us a zillion excuses about lack of votes or 'we can't' without Democrat support and all the other assorted bovine excrement that they fling at us to silence us.

Yes, it is amazing- GOP cannot govern or keep a promise.

[Mom MD]

... and the Republicans cannot do likewise to end it.  They steadfastly refuse and toss us a zillion excuses about lack of votes or 'we can't' without Democrat support and all the other assorted bovine excrement that they fling at us to silence us.

Because the Republican Party today - stands for Socialism better managed.

I agree except the part about the socialism being better managed. The republicans can't manage their way out of a paper bag.

[corbe]

   These three people are continuing the perpetuation of this Fraud on the American people.