"[Obamacare] is the law of the land" - Paul Ryan; AHCA Round Two soon??

tbloxham

Knight_ wrote: »

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/republican-health-care-proposal-white-house-ahca/523746/

My favorite parts

But on Thursday, a senior GOP congressional aide dampened expectations for the bill, which a senior White House official told The Washington Post could receive a House vote as soon as the middle of next week.

“The question is whether it can get 216 votes in the House and the answer isn’t clear at this time,” the aide wrote me in an email. “There is no legislative text and therefore no agreement to do a whip count on.”

But while Ryan has made a public show of confidence, his office has been much more skeptical about the prospects for reviving the AHCA, having seen first-hand how narrow the path is for writing a policy that can win the votes of conservatives without sacrificing the support of Republicans closer to the political center. Conservative activists also sense that the speaker is fearful of being burned again on a bill for which he expended significant political capital and lost.

So really it sounds like the white house is trying to will something into existence before the first 100 days are up, but the house and Ryan are terrified to put anything on paper and bring it up after how badly they got lit on fire last go around. Trump's total inability to work toward goals with less than universal approval in his party is going to be a massive thorn in his side moving forward.

If it's not written yet there's no way they can write the section about making sure lottery winners lose their medicare quickly enough. With slapdash language like that literal ONES of people might be eligible for healthcare support when they shouldn't be. These ONES of people might recieve HUNDREDS of dollars of improper government assistance for WEEKS before normal eligibility removal kicked in.

This is a risk our country cannot afford!

So It Goes

Geth, close the thread.

Geth

Affirmative So It Goes. Closing thread...