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Republican Obamacare replacement bill passes House
Dan Mangan, CNBC, May 4, 2017 (thanks to Van):
Story continues below advertisementAfter years of debate, the House on Thursday voted to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act and replace them with new provisions.
The vote, which President Donald Trump was planning to tout as a big victory, sends the Republican-sponsored bill to gut Obamacare to the Senate for consideration.
But winning approval for the bill could be even more difficult in the Senate than it has been in the House, where Republican leaders struggled for nearly two months to wrangle enough votes in their caucus to secure its passage.
The bill passed by a vote of 217 to 213.
“A lot of us have waited seven years to case this vote,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said shortly before the voting began. “Many of us are here because we pledged to cast this vote: to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
“This bill delivers the promises we have made to the American people,” Ryan said.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told MSNBC shortly before the vote began, “We were elected to do this.”
The bill — which would dramatically change the way the federal government funds purchases of individual health plans and Medicaid — is expected to dramatically increase the number of people without health insurance if enacted into law.
Effect on pre-existing conditionsThursday’s vote came a week after the bill was amended to include a provision that won support from conservative holdouts. That provision would, under certain conditions, undo Obamacare’s ban on letting insurers charge people with pre-existing health conditions more for their insurance plans than healthy people.
Moderate Republicans initially blanched at that provision. But on Wednesday a number of them agreed to support the bill after the addition of another amendment that would increase funding designed to reduce the impact of the higher premiums on people with pre-existing conditions. Analysis questions how far that funding may go to cut costs for those Americans.
The bill, known as the American Health Care Act, would remove the Obamacare rule requiring most Americans to have health coverage of some kind.
It also is expected to lead to bigger increases in the premium prices of individual plans over the next two years than would be seen if Obamacare remained in effect. And it would give wealthy Americans a tax break.
Republicans rushed to vote on the bill without first having it analyzed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which would have provided estimates of coverage losses, premium effects, and costs to the federal budget. A CBO score on the bill could come next week — and provide opponents of the bill more ammunition against it.
An earlier effort to vote on the bill was aborted in late March when GOP leaders saw that it would fail to win enough support to pass it. Before that failed effort, the CBO projected the bill would lead to 24 million more Americans without health insurance over a decade, and insurance plan premium rates up to 20 percent higher than Obamacare rates would be in 2018 before dropping.
Since then, the legislation has undergone a series of changes designed to attract support from both the conservative and moderate wings of the Republican caucus.
Hours before the House vote, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi blasted the bill and the GOP.
“Republicans are again maliciously trying to destroy health care,” Pelosi said.
“They have this vote tattooed on them. This is a scar that they will carry,” she said.
Indeed, it was fear of repercussions at the ballot box that spooked many Republicans as their leaders urged them to vote for the bill. Polling in March on the original version of the legislation showed that just 17 percent of Americans supported the bill.
That dismal level of support reminded Republicans how Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections after passing the Affordable Care Act that year.
Republicans ever since have vowed to repeal Obamacare. But before November’s election of Trump as president, they had been stymied in that effort by President Barack Obama, who could veto any bill that would undo his signature health-care reform law.
Trump on Thursday praised the bill less than an hour before the voting began.
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30 Comments
6 years ago
Hope there are no loopholes to make it another version of obamacare like the previous Ryancare that Trump was promoting !
Did you know Like facebook , twitter now even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censure conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Fakebook, Twitter, and Google have been slapped with a class action lawsuit by victims of their ignoring, and giving tacit approval to, material promoting raghead murder and mayhem, the Pulse nightclub shooter prominent among them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Left/liberal pro-jihadi judges will throw out the case. And blame conservatives news as ‘fascist’, ‘racist’ like in EU.
what will you do ?
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Wait and see what happens when that ruling is appealed, which is almost certain.
6 years ago
Look at the guy in the white grey jacket in the middle.
He is an Ex-Socialdemocrat and now a member of the AFD(the most members in the AFD are from the 3 big parties CDU,SPD,FDP-also Green and other members.Ex-Nazis are NOT allowed to join the AFD.AFD had jewish,black,slavic,gay,yezide etc as members).He(married to a Russian woman) wanted to join a March on the 1st May.He is still a worker and Socialdemocrat.
But the Socialdemocrats together with the MLPD(look at the banner)MArxist Leninist Party dont let him join the march call him a Nazi and Racist.
6 years ago
Eight years of the theft & slavery of Obamacare and Socialism repealed.
6 years ago
The completer eradication of everything o’bimbo did is a top priority. The only way to make progress is to get rid of the things that prevent it, democrats being a major encumbrance.
6 years ago
Reply to
patriotusa2
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Yes. Let’s remind the liberals that Obama Care is a failure!
EVEN according to the liberal researchers at HARVARD UNIVERSITY and NPR.
I always tell liberal supporters that they can google: “”Obamacare failing harvard and npr” (no quotes).
It’s not just rhetoric from the right. Obama care really is failing!
6 years ago
Sounds like Dan Managan at CNBC, who wrote this article, is not a fan. Sounds like one of Obama’s butt kissers. F U Danny boy.
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6 years ago
Reply to
Don Vito
CNBC is overwhelmingly anti-Trump.
I follow the stock market and go to their website daily. Almost every article is a hit-piece on Trump.
6 years ago
Let’s hope it gets out of the senate!
6 years ago
No Pam, it is Amend, Rename and Take the Blame. Obamacare was a coup of socialized medicine over the semi-free medical system and the health insurance industry. Nothing less than Repeal of all of it can save us. But Trump and Republicans have accepted the irrational notion that “insurance” must accept preexisting conditions and/or that medical care for those that can’t afford “Insurance” is a government (meaning tax payer) responsibility. Obamacare was expected to fail on the road to single payer socialized medicine,and Trump praised Canada’s single payer system. This amendment completes the transition of medical care to an entitlement so the coup continues. The Democrats are gloating and already blaming Republicans for all of the system failures that will follow. The narrative and sentiment of a right to medical care has won and this is only an adoption of the ensuing destruction of the system by the Republicans.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
The original passage of Obhammudcare cost the commiecrats dearly beginning with the 2010 mid-term elections. On that you are correct. But the voting public has now acclimated itself to viewing this socialized medicine as an inalienable right, making it nowhere near the political IED it once was.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
The powers that be were counting on the acclimation and memory-shortages you discussed, and they got it. Discernment gone, again it is all about “what’s in it for me?”
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
One giant step forward, one big retreat back, and it* faints.
I can not wait for mid-termination.
6 years ago
Here’s to you, Obama and all your other “accomplishments” during your regime. You can this date to a plaque to hang on the wall, next to a photo of the current president in your indoctrination center in Chicago.
6 years ago
U might wanna stick w/what u know, Pamela. Your knowledge of health care/insurance is either slim or none, and slim just left town.
6 years ago
Pull out the pinot noir and a plague on o’loser and the lib-lamics. Next the senate and the nuclear if needed. Don’t forget to say a prayer for Le Pen for Sunday.
6 years ago
Remember when “Queen Vacuous”, a.k.a Nancy Pelosi said, “You have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.”? And do you remember why she was correct in saying that? It is because as the commiecrat controlled legislature and WH were preparing to ram Obhammudcare down the nation’s throats the media was MIA on a wild goose chase to AK because it coincided with the release of Sarah Palin’s official emails as governor. And they found nothing.
A media which can make Pelosi seem perceptive has uniquely perverted its First Amendment guarantees.
6 years ago
It is still Obamacare and probably worse in the end … in a nutshell, think revising what computer programmers call spaghetti code … that, at best, is what was done … actually, it is far worse … https://www.texaspolicy.com/library/docLib/Memo-to-the-Texas-Congressional-Delegation.pdf
6 years ago
The real test of the changes is whether or not it is universally applied, to all with no exemptions, to Congress, to Muslims, to everybody.
6 years ago
It is also the time to repeal the Socialist Single Payer Medical Plan called Medicare. People who don’t live right, eat right, and live right, should not expect the taxpayers to cover the cost of their health care. Fortunately, for me as a retired Marine, I have the benefit of TriCare for Life. But I faced sustained sniper fire, and realized I had no fear of death. So I earned my health care. RIGHT? NOT!
6 years ago
And then there’s Hollywood’s Cher, a billionaire, complaining “How am I going to pay for my asthma treatments?” She was either joking or was dead serious. She has enough bucks to fund asthma research for the next one hundred years, and also land a man on Mars.
6 years ago
OT: israeli Singer and actor Daliah Lavi, dies in Ashville (NC) at 74.
Americans might not know her, but in the 60s,70s and 80s she was a big star in Europe, especially in Germany and other german-speaking countries.
“Israel is like my second soul”, Daliah Lavi.
Alav Ha shalom, RIP beautiful Daliah!
6 years ago
show me in the constitution where is says healthcare, welfare, medicare, medicaid, you get the idea?
6 years ago
Too early to celebrate, we still have to wait to see what the Senate does. And, from what I understand, the new bill will face some serious obstacles. But we are most definitely on the right track. So, yay!
