Nobody Has Seen The Obamacare ‘Stability Deal,’ Probably Because It’ll Make Voters Postal Senators Susan Collins and Lamar Alexander are apparently engaging in a bidding war over how many billions of taxpayer dollars to spend on corporate welfare to insurance companies.
By Christopher Jacobs
December 20, 2017 Memo to Rand Paul: It’s time to fire up the copier again.
On Tuesday, the simmering controversy over Obamacare “stability†legislation came to the boil, as conservatives increasingly voiced objections at bailing out Obamacare and giving tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to fund abortion coverage in the process. But the controversy centers around a “deal†of which the precise contents remain a closely guarded secret.
While Democrats deliberated on Obamacare in 2009 and 2010, Republicans frequently attacked the non-transparent process. Then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) went so far as to call the law’s backroom deals “kind of [a] smelly proposition†that empowered Democratic senators “to extract some special deal for them at the expense of everyone else in the country.â€
But at least Democrats (eventually) made the text of the Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, Gator Aid, and other provisions public. For the Obamacare “stability†bill, Senate Republican leaders have yet to indicate exactly what legislation they wish to pass.
Substance and Process Unclear<..snip..>
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/20/nobody-seen-obamacare-stability-deal-probably-itll-make-voters-postal/
