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Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.
The announcement by the senators, Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas, left their leaders at least two votes short of the number needed to begin debate on their bill to dismantle the health law. Two other Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, had already said they would not support a procedural step to begin debate.
With four solid votes against the bill, Republican leaders now have two options.
They can try to rewrite it in a way that can secure 50 Republican votes, a seeming impossibility at this point, given the complaints by the defecting senators. Or they can work with Democrats on a narrower measure to fix the flaws in the Affordable Care Act that both parties acknowledge.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, conceded Monday night that “the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful.”
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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"We are going to have great healthcare for everyone, and at a tiny fraction of the cost.
And, it's going to be so easy"
Donald Trump. October 2016
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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The proverbial dog that caught the car and doesn't know what to do with it.
Maybe 8 years was too short of a time to come up with something better ! 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Will ANY elected official ANYWHERE have enough guts to stand up and promote single-payer medicare for all and end this mess? Geez, and I don't want to hear any crap how private, for-profit insurance companies really give a rat's ass about you, me, or anyone else except their shareholders.
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Just Fred wrote:
Will ANY elected official ANYWHERE have enough guts to stand up and promote single-payer medicare for all and end this mess? Geez, and I don't want to hear any crap how private, for-profit insurance companies really give a rat's ass about you, me, or anyone else except their shareholders.
Hey, I'm there, Fred.
Let's stop wasting time, and get there already.
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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For seven years they promised,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Now, Republicans finally have all the tools that they need.
They control the House of Representatives, the US Senate, and the White House.
And,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare has failed.
No problem, we will just repeal it.
Oh, my, what's this?
Lisa Murkowski, Shelley Moore Capito, Susan Collins take heat on Twitter for opposing Senate healthcare bill
Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine said that they would not support the repeal of Obamacare without a replacement plan stopping the bill from proceeding in the Senate.
BTW, I would give Murkowski, Collins and Capito a Profile in Courage award!
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Let's stop wasting time, and get there already. - Goose
Touchdown!
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I've honestly never understood why Susan Collins, Shelley Moore Capito and Lisa Murkowski are even Republicans?
Well, maybe they decided to represent the people of the USA instead a tribal ideology, pal.