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Home Front: Politix
Rand Paul Infuriates McConnell By Going Public With Plan To Eliminate Obamacare Mandate Via Tax Cut Legislation
2017-11-17
[DCWHISPERS] Both are Kentucky senators but one, Rand Paul, remains a free-thinker removed from the trappings of the D.C. Swamp. The other is Mitch McConnell, the epitome of the swamp and the current Senate Majority Leader. Today Senator Paul broke rank and went public with his plan to tie the proposed tax cut/reform legislation to the elimination of the Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
 mandate ‐ a move that would effectively kill the highly unpopular and insanely expensive federal healthcare program
Posted by:Fred

#9  Only replace the part that covers the super-poor and previously existing conditions. Make it an extension of VA services and then pump money into the VA so. Then nobody would dare allow the VA to be misrule or underfunded again.

I believe that is the only way to make the repeal politically palatable because it's too easy to mischaracterize everything after they let it linger on this long.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-11-17 21:02  

#8  The Congress could have some sort of replacement ready that covered the otherwise uninsurable and be heros.

I have a huge problem with the notion of repeal and replace. It's pretty clear to me that Obamacare is a colossal and intentional failure, so we're gonna replace one stinker with another? If by replace we mean 'remove shit laws and regulations and allow the market to work', then that should be the solution, and leave it to the states to resolve the uninsured 'problem'.
Posted by: Raj   2017-11-17 13:08  

#7  Should have cut Obamacare on day one, then at this point it would be a talking point rather than a guillotine. The Congress could have some sort of replacement ready that covered the otherwise uninsurable and be heros.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-11-17 10:29  

#6  Should have cut Obamacare on day one, then at this point it would be a talking point rather than a guillotine. The Congress could have some sort of replacement ready that covered the otherwise uninsurable and be heros.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-11-17 10:29  

#5  Yertle McTurtle peeved? Oh Noes!
Posted by: Frank G   2017-11-17 10:10  

#4  Whaaaaa

I'm with Rand on this one. Better to put it in the open that way they congress critters can't hide.

Vote for this or people keep this horrible tax and you lose your seat.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-11-17 09:37  

#3  The Rino Swamp creatures never really wanted to kill Obamacare as they promised. Getting rid of the mandate would yield $300 billion in additional tax cuts? We can't have those taxpayers enjoying too much relief (sarc on). McConnell's got to go.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-17 08:13  

#2  Ditch Swamp turtle Mitch!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-11-17 08:07  

#1  McConnell has no one but himself to blame. He's pissed of a lot of conservatives, sided with the Democrats in congress way too many times, and bad mouthed Trump....Pay back is a female dog.
Posted by: Sloluting and Tenille8977   2017-11-17 03:40  

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