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Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« on: July 13, 2017, 10:14:22 pm »
Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska

 By Nathaniel Weixel - 07/13/17 05:59 PM EDT 

The home state of a key undecided senator could receive hundreds of millions of dollars under an updated Senate GOP bill to repeal ObamaCare.

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has withheld her support for the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, citing concerns over Medicaid cuts, Planned Parenthood funding and insurance affordability.

But a new provision could funnel more than $100 billion to her state to help reduce the cost of insurance premiums.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/341962-senate-healthcare-bill-includes-key-provision-for-alaska
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2017, 10:15:04 pm »
   Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase version 2.0
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2017, 10:30:18 pm »
Quote from: corbe on July 13, 2017, 10:15:04 pm
   Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase version 2.0

It's pretty sad when you have to "payoff" a senator in order for them to fulfill a promise they've been making for 7 years. I don't care if this particular senator made the promise or not. Repeal of obamacare has been the party line since the Tea Party revolution gave the Pubs a majority in the House.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2017, 08:32:09 pm »
Quote from: bilo on July 13, 2017, 10:30:18 pm
It's pretty sad when you have to "payoff" a senator in order for them to fulfill a promise they've been making for 7 years.

And even then, they still aren't fulfilling the promise.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2017, 08:43:04 pm »
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

Otto von Bismarck

(are we better off, with instantaneous "news" every moment of every day, frequently dishonest?)

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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2017, 08:48:59 pm »
Quote from: corbe on July 13, 2017, 10:15:04 pm
   Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase version 2.0

It's the Kodiak Kickback, the Polar bear Payoff.

This is how you deal with the moderates - you buy 'em off.   

Where's the Kennebunkport Kickback?   
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2017, 09:01:26 pm »
Am I supposed to feel good about a state getting a disproportionate amount of money that is going to cost me extra?
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2017, 09:03:58 pm »
This makes me nauseous.  Their undisguised contempt for us is jaw dropping.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2017, 09:07:04 pm »
Quote from:  Nathaniel Weixel on July 13, 2017, 10:14:22 pm
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has withheld her support for the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, citing concerns over Medicaid cuts, Planned Parenthood funding and insurance affordability.

But a new provision could funnel more than $100 billion to her state...
Well now.

At least we know where some of that 100 BILLION dollars the Republican Party will funnel to her state will go.

Or, put this way: the GOP would rather pay to kill unborn babies with your tax dollars and rebrand ObamaCare as their own than to repeal the damned thing as they promised they would do "root and branch".

Socialistic despotism.

It's not just the Democrats pushing for it anymore.
« Last Edit: July 14, 2017, 09:07:45 pm by INVAR »
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2017, 09:08:50 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 14, 2017, 09:03:58 pm
This makes me nauseous.  Their undisguised contempt for us is jaw dropping.

That is precisely what happens when despots become self aware and realize they are untouchable.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2017, 09:33:51 pm »
While it's never been a secret that shit like this happens, the fact that they are now so open about it simply disgusts me.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2017, 02:37:58 am »
Republicans are proving they are no better than Democrats.

They easily pass around us taxpayer's money.

We now know why Obamacare will not be repealed.

Why would people like Murkowski do the right thing and repeal when she can rake in some money by slowing things down?

This is sausage making.
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Re: Senate healthcare bill includes key provision for Alaska
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2017, 02:58:48 am »
This an interesting article. I could swear that I read that Alaska had imposed some kind of tax so they could have single payer provided by the state.

I must have misunderstood.
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