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originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: carewemust
We are probably too late.
President Trump wants Universal "beautiful" Healthcare for all Americans. ObamaCare was the sneaky way of attempting to get there. I think he'd commission a study and put the results in front of voters before deciding to implement it though.
""Senate Republicans have no plans to revive their party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare this summer, despite President Donald Trump’s increasing frustration over the chamber’s failed attempts last week to gut the law.
"Until somebody shows us a way to get that elusive 50th vote, I think it's over,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Republican. “Maybe lightning will strike and something will come together but I'm not holding my breath.""
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: burgerbuddy
If Trump cancels the CSR subsidies, and the Treasury's subsidies to Congressmen, it will interesting to see how that power struggle plays out. Orrin Hatch (chairman of the Treasury committee) said today that he would probably allocate permanent funding for those items.
(FYI.. In late 2016, The Federal Court ruled that the Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies being paid to health insurance companies are illegal, because Congress never allocated the funding for these payments. REPUBLICANS filed this lawsuit in 2015, and now they want to fund the CSR's!)
originally posted by: carewemust
In other words, our elected Republican Congressmen are siding with Democrats, instead of with their President, and the people who elected them!
Insurance company stocks will SOAR when word gets out that the ObamaCare Golden Goose is back in the egg-laying business, for good.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: burgerbuddy
If Trump cancels the CSR subsidies, and the Treasury's subsidies to Congressmen, it will interesting to see how that power struggle plays out.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: burgerbuddy
If Trump cancels the CSR subsidies, and the Treasury's subsidies to Congressmen, it will interesting to see how that power struggle plays out.
At their salaries, the top officials aren't struggling. I'm not sure if the subsidies extend to their secretaries and office workers... those are the people who will be hurt most.
originally posted by: Byrd
NOW... if the people in charge don't decide that "burdensome regulations are harming the industry" they should be kept in check.
originally posted by: Byrd
Secondly, our nation has been stuck in the "my party and no compromise" position for far too long. We need to work with each other in order to get anything done.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Byrd
They do, but I don't see that it makes much difference to Democrat Senators that they represented Republicans too when it came time to put this massive boondoggle in place. Believe me, we made our presence felt.