If RyanCare fails the vote, it may cost him his job

[Jan2017]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?42593...ealth-care-bill-vote-expected-afternoon&live=

Recent debate seems like sob stories from both sides of the aisle
If GOP bill doesn't pass . . . death, abortions
If GOP bill passes . . . "44,000 more deaths in your own district"

I am convinced already - they're right.

This Dem guy must have statistics for every district. Next . . .

If GOP bill doesn't pass . . . death, abortions
If GOP bill passes . . . "50,000 more deaths in your own district"

 

[Zippyjuan]

SHH!!! This is a grownup conversation, zippy.

Why don't you go start a thread about Trump being afraid of stairs or something.

That is UWDude's job.

 

[dannno]

That is UWDude's job.

I'm ok with him posting that thread because he was mocking the media, and I recalled that he was the one who posted it. Your intention of posting a thread like that would be to mock Trump...

Do you see the difference?

 

[Superfluous Man]

Your intention of posting a thread like that would be to mock Trump...

Which is a much more noble goal than defending Trump.

 

[dannno]

Which is a much more noble goal than defending Trump.

That would depend on the issue.

 

[William Tell]

[h=1]House Appropriations Chair Rodney Frelinghuysen Rebukes Speaker Paul Ryan: Obamacare 2.0 Is ‘Currently Unacceptable’[/h]
“Seven years after enactment of Obamacare, I wanted to support legislation that made positive changes to rescue healthcare in America,” Frelinhguysen, who has been lauded as the Garden State’s most powerful congressman, wrote in a Facebook post.

Unfortunately, the legislation before the House today is currently unacceptable as it would place significant new costs and barriers to care on my constituents in New Jersey. In addition to the loss of Medicaid coverage for so many people in my Medicaid-dependent state, the denial of essential health benefits in the individual market raise serious coverage and cost issues. I remain hopeful that the American Health Care Act will be further modified. We need to get this right for all Americans.

The House Speaker almost never loses the Appropriations Chairman on major pieces of legislation. The fact Frelinghuysen is against the bill calls into question Ryan’s ability to lead the conference–including his own committee chairs–in the future on other pieces of legislation. It shows just how unpopular this legislation really is GOP-wide, and further demonstrates Ryan’s inability to bring together the different factions of the House Republican conference.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ryan-obamacare-2-0-is-currently-unacceptable/

 

[undergroundrr]

Which is a much more noble goal than defending Trump.

Out of rep

 

[William Tell]

[h=1]Paul Ryan Rushes to White House to Tell Trump Votes Are Lacking to Repeal Obamacare[/h]
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, rushed to the White House Friday afternoon to inform President Trump he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration.


The president and the speaker faced the humiliating prospect of a major defeat on legislation promised for seven years, since the landmark health legislation was signed into law. President Trump had demanded a vote regardless, which has been scheduled for Friday afternoon. But House leaders were leaning against such a public loss.


The House opened debate Friday on what would have been one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in years, a bill that would have rolled back a major, established social welfare program, a feat that is almost unheard of.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html?_r=0

 

[William Tell]

[h=1]Exclusive–Rep. Kevin Brady: ‘It Is Clear We Don’t Have the Votes’ to Pass Ryancare[/h]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...lear-we-dont-have-the-votes-to-pass-ryancare/

 

[Jamesiv1]

This just in from CNN discussion panel:

Wolf: "Look, the Ryan plan is a shoe-in. Polls show 98% approval in the House and Senate."
Anderson: "You got that right, Wolf. Look, the only question now is how big a landslide is it going to be."
Chris: "Look, the Trump administration has been holed up in the White House all day today. Planning how to explain this humiliation, no doubt."
Erin: "Look, this embarrassment for Trump is already invoking talk about impeachment."
Brett: "From anonymous sources, of course."
Erin: "Look, of course they are."
Wolf: "Quit telling me to look, Erin."
Erin: "You quit telling ME to look, asswipe."
[mics out. technical difficulties]

 

[William Tell]

Outlook looking bleak for GOP on 'Obamacare' repeal bill

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republicans' capstone health care overhaul seemed in dire trouble Friday as Speaker Paul Ryan weighed strategy at the White House with President Donald Trump. GOP lawmakers and aides said they lacked the votes to succeed in the House, just hours before a do-or-die showdown demanded by Trump.

GOP leaders pushed toward a climactic House roll call, but their promise to stage the vote increasingly looked like a losing gamble for the new president and his GOP allies in Congress.

Vice President Mike Pence was meeting near the Capitol with the House Freedom Caucus. That group's hard-right members, along with a growing band of party moderates, have been driving GOP opposition and threatening to crash one of Trump's and Ryan's top priorities.

"I think the president has given it his all," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters in what sounded like a concession that the measure's fate was bleak. He added, "The speaker has done everything he can. You can't force people to vote."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-24-05-52-03

 

[CPUd]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-24-05-52-03

Not sure Pence is the same type of "hard-right" as a lot of the HFC members.