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7/08/2017 8:53 am  #1


G.O.P. Support of Senate Health Repeal Erodes During Break

G.O.P. Support of Senate Health Repeal Erodes During Break

WASHINGTON — A week that Senate Republicans had hoped would mobilize conservatives and shore up support for their measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act instead ended with eroding enthusiasm, as usually reliable Republican senators from red states blanched at its impact on rural communities.

With Congress set to return on Monday after a week’s recess, Republican lawmakers are increasingly aware that their seven-year promise to dismantle President Barack Obama’s largest policy achievement is deeply imperiled. Senator John Hoeven, Republican of North Dakota, signaled this week that he would not vote for the bill as written, following negative remarks from other senators with large poor and rural populations. That was the 10th defection.

Three other Republican senators, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and John Boozman of Arkansas, have withheld their support, although they have not declared their opposition, and others have largely remained silent.

Mr. Grassley told voters on Friday that he was unsure if he would vote for the Senate Republican bill in its current form, according to The Des Moines Register. “I don’t even know if we’re going to get a bill up,” said Mr. Grassley, an expert on health policy and taxes who has been in Congress for more than 40 years.

In small counties, rural hospitals and other health care providers are often the largest employers, and after years of railing against Mr. Obama’s law, Republican senators are now grappling with the impact of its possible demise.

“I am a product of rural Kansas,” Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, told constituents this week. “I understand the value of a hospital in your community, of a physician in your town, of a pharmacy on Main Street.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/us/politics/republicans-health-care-bill.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

7/08/2017 8:54 am  #2


Re: G.O.P. Support of Senate Health Repeal Erodes During Break

One overlooked aspect of rural healthcare; business.
Attracting new businesses to blighted rural communities should be a national priority.

But, Just try to get Raytheon, or BMW, or anybody else to locate a factory in your community after it's only hospital has closed.

I've been involved in trying to recruit professions to this area.
The first two questions a candidate asks are about the quality of the schools, and the healthcare system.

Last edited by Goose (7/08/2017 9:06 am)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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7/08/2017 3:12 pm  #3


Re: G.O.P. Support of Senate Health Repeal Erodes During Break

THAT is why they wanted to get it passed before they came home. They KNEW that they were in for an earfull. 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

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