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To: SeekAndFind

That last part is critical.

Till now the Democrats owned this piece of sh**, lock, stock and barrel.

Now Republicans have their fingerprints on it.

2 posted on 03/07/2017 7:58:17 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump needs to veto this and tell Ryan piss up a rope until they come up with something real.

4 posted on 03/07/2017 8:00:47 AM PST by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s almost like some wealthy billionaire New York liberal planned it.. question is, which one?

5 posted on 03/07/2017 8:01:50 AM PST by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I want to be on record against this atrocity. We didn’t kick the Dems out of power for this.

P.S. - There was a lot made of the the fact that not a single GOP vote was cast for Obamacare. This bill proves they might as well have done so.

6 posted on 03/07/2017 8:02:46 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The RINO’s are not interested in a Conservative Gooberment at all. Boot them out!!

7 posted on 03/07/2017 8:03:20 AM PST by Demanwideplan
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To: JamesP81

We will now see the real test. Will President Trump see this is garbage, veto it for what it is and offer a far more conservative policy? Will he stand up to moaning from the RINO house and Senate and remain firm?

This will be the first legislative test

9 posted on 03/07/2017 8:03:44 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: DoodleDawg

Call it Establishment Care!

10 posted on 03/07/2017 8:03:59 AM PST by All Blue State
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To: SeekAndFind

No House RAT should vote for this so the RINOs own it.
Then the House Conservatives should vote it down.

If it makes it to the Senate, maybe they’ll have the good sense to say, “are we nuts” asnd vote it down.

11 posted on 03/07/2017 8:04:24 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: SeekAndFind

But, in fact, the GOP bill is actually worse than Obamacare for two reasons: 1) It will exacerbate the death spiral of fiscal insolvency; and 2) It will destroy the employer market.

I'll post a more detailed review of this later, but this line caught my eye.

I think the author has this all wrong. Destroying the employer market will do more to "fix" health care in this country than anything else that has been discussed.

Think about just how idiotic our employer-based health care system has become. Expecting my employer to cover the cost of my medical insurance is just as ludicrous as expecting my employer to do my grocery shopping for me. This link between employment and health coverage should be severed ASAP. The best way to do this is by treating employer-paid health insurance as a taxable benefit just like anything else.

When my employer purchased a disability insurance policy for me and paid the premium every year, I had to report that premium as taxable income on my tax return. And guess what -- the premium was so low that it hardly even mattered.

12 posted on 03/07/2017 8:04:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Now Republicans have their fingerprints on it.”

And that can be avoided very easily and the President can FORCE A BIPARTISAN BILL to Repeal Obamacare.

I will say it again, OBAMACARE WILL NEVER BE REPEALED in any way, shape or fashion. I watched COUNTLESS Government Unions proudly marching and advocating for OBAMACARE on TV all across this Country.

There is ONLY ONE WAY to make it happen:

Executive Orders

1. All waivers to the Affordable Care act are hereby repealed.

2. There shall be NO funds drawn from the treasury to pay for Health Insurance for ANY Federal Employee except Members of the Armed Services.

3. ALL Federal Employees except members of the US Armed Services, SHALL purchase their own personal and Family Health Insurance from the Affordable Care Exchange in the state they legally reside.

And to make sure it is Bipartisan, President Trump should VETO it every Time and FORCE them to Override his Veto to Repeal this Monstrosity.

Sign these 3 orders and it will be FULLY REPEALED in Less than 30 days.

NOT UNTIL, Anyone want to make a BET???

I would also consider another Executive Order Withholding All Transportation Funds from All States that do Not have Their Public Employees enrolled in Obamacare, just to Prove a Point.

When and ONLY WHEN Government Lives under the Same Laws as us will anything substantial happen

I AM TAKING BETS that the Rino Party Will NEVER REPEAL OBAMACARE!

13 posted on 03/07/2017 8:04:31 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Uh....it’s a starting point for negotiations. People are supposed to come to the table and fight for what they want included and excluded.

This is in stark contract to the Dems where no one got a chance for input

May the best ideas win!

16 posted on 03/07/2017 8:05:39 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: SeekAndFind

Ryan is such a weasel. He never ever thought Trump would win so he had NO replacement plan.

His grand plan was to send phony repeal bills to Hillary for 4 years and when it finally imploded on its own, he’d run for president in 2020.

18 posted on 03/07/2017 8:06:24 AM PST by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: SeekAndFind

Back when I was supporting Cruz and watched 2ndDiv get roasted for being a big time Ted supporter I would occasionally try to defend Cruz and point out Trump is no conservative. The conservatives in the UK are essentially a party that appeals to voters saying we can run the big govt programs better.

And that is what the republicans have turned into here. Trump said nice things about this bill. All those attempts to repeal were phony as sh1t. They could have just took the last repeal bill Obama vetoed

20 posted on 03/07/2017 8:07:43 AM PST by BJ1
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To: Alberta's Child

“Donald Trump has been on the record many times calling for a single-payer health care system in the U.S.”

In actuality, he has been on record many times repudiating single-payer health care in the U.S. He has stated many times that everyone should have access to health care. It is just that some people can’t divide concepts.

23 posted on 03/07/2017 8:11:37 AM PST by odawg
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There is no open and free market engine in this plan. There needs to be Tricare style price ceilings on care temporarily until, and only until, free market price competitions for services match those price ceilings.

25 posted on 03/07/2017 8:12:29 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Alberta's Child

I disagree it is Government that is the issue not employer. It is a benefit that separates a competitive market looking to attract talent. In fact before Obamacare my healthcare costs were quite small. Because of Obamacare insurance companies have sky rocketed costs and in turn employer has placed a much larger burden on their employees to offset the rise. Trust me it isn’t employers that are the problem it is 100% government interference.

I’ll go one further, Republicans have allowed Dumborats to control the message by forcing them to accept a repeal and replace and an idiot public has bought into the meme. How about just repeal? Just repeal the whole drat thing? Pre Obamacare my costs were cheap.

26 posted on 03/07/2017 8:12:41 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: SeekAndFind

THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!

Throw out their Rino-Care with them!

The feds have no constitutional authority to be meddling in healthcare.

Healthcare needs to be run by the free market economy which gave America the best, most affordable, most available healthcare in the world until the feds began rooting around and screwing it up.

29 posted on 03/07/2017 8:13:34 AM PST by Jim 0216
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To: JBW1949

It’s not just veto. This is the first offering of the bill. There are other house members who have a say before the house votes on it. Then it goes to the senate where the senators have a say on it before the senate votes. I would imagine that is where some of the other ideals will be used as bargaining tools. It has a long way to go before it goes to the president for signature.

34 posted on 03/07/2017 8:15:30 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: WomBom

exactly. The left will only re-shape this once they are ion power to get their socialist health care .
Dismantle it end of.

41 posted on 03/07/2017 8:26:52 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: All

The Senate is worse than the House. What is wrong with these idiots? I have a great Rep and Cruz is a great Senator but Corynhole has got to go.

I will actually vote for the demonrat the next election to get him gone if necessary.

44 posted on 03/07/2017 8:28:12 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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Doesn't matter who's in the White House. It's President Trump vs. 535 Established Political Elites in the House & Senate. I'm not liking his odds.

SocketWrench posted:

"Everybody looks out for himself and doesn’t ask for anything from anybody else. "
This motherfucker needs to read his goddamned bible

Fathis Munk posted:

Oh my god this is so beautiful.

Jagged Jim posted:

To: SeekAndFind

That last part is critical.

Till now the Democrats owned this piece of sh**, lock, stock and barrel.

Now Republicans have their fingerprints on it.

2 posted on 03/07/2017 7:58:17 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Alberta's Child
This “plan” is typical RINO lunacy. Now the repubs will “own” this mess. Abolish nobamadon’tcare and allow the free market to work, you morons.


57 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:43:09 AM by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind
That’s what those fags have released ahead of Trump.

He can pull a Clinton and veto it, to shape its final form.

Hell, do it three time until he gets what he wants.

I guarantee you he is more popular than those POS, who will pass just anything.


58 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:47:07 AM by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: SeekAndFind
Therein we have the Big Lie all along.
The Republicans have had years to come up with a winning alternative, yet came up with nothing. Conservatism at it's finest hour, against Obamacare but no realistic competing alternative.

Trump could have been the real winner an innovator here by instructing his AG to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Wright-Patman on the medical monopolies and insurance companies. Yes we would have had a 10 15% disruption in the GDP and a recession, but the result would have been a drop of at least 80% in Health Care Costs, an opportunity to get rid of the Deficit and Pay Down the Debt with money left over and a renewed vibrant economy. But it will not happen. We are going to have the Fiscal Train wreck and coupled with the Interest on the Debt a blown up budget. Not to mention the real problems for the states and their paying for their share of the Medicaid Expansion. We are all screwed and will be seeing reduced benefits on everything.

97 posted on 3/7/2017, 3:04:11 PM by Captain Peter Blood
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HappyHippo posted:

To: SeekAndFind
Therein we have the Big Lie all along.
The Republicans have had years to come up with a winning alternative, yet came up with nothing. Conservatism at it's finest hour, against Obamacare but no realistic competing alternative.

Trump could have been the real winner an innovator here by instructing his AG to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Wright-Patman on the medical monopolies and insurance companies. Yes we would have had a 10 15% disruption in the GDP and a recession, but the result would have been a drop of at least 80% in Health Care Costs, an opportunity to get rid of the Deficit and Pay Down the Debt with money left over and a renewed vibrant economy. But it will not happen. We are going to have the Fiscal Train wreck and coupled with the Interest on the Debt a blown up budget. Not to mention the real problems for the states and their paying for their share of the Medicaid Expansion. We are all screwed and will be seeing reduced benefits on everything.

97 posted on 3/7/2017, 3:04:11 PM by Captain Peter Blood
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SocketWrench posted:

And like every other election he'll vote straight ticket rep again fr the rest of his life and constantly bitch about why the reps won't change.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/839193041948790788

Has freep seen this yet

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To: GIdget2004

Spicer: “This is the Obamacare replacement plan that everyone has been asking for, that the president ran on…”

Spicer: “These are the principals for which conservatives have been fighting for for years”

2 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:10:53 AM by GIdget2004

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To: GIdget2004

“Spicer: “These are the principals for which conservatives have been fighting for for years””

What a load of BS.

4 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:14:51 AM by gibsonguy

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To: GIdget2004

Also, Price said he was unaware that health insurance executives making more than $500,000 would get a tax break under this legislation.

5 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:19:47 AM by GIdget2004

Has that been stated to be part of the package? News to me.

6 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:22:38 AM by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")

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To: GIdget2004

This is a ghastly piece of garbage legislation. President Trump needs to pressure Congress to offer a genuine repeal bill, not a weasel program that will make bad matters worse.

7 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:24:47 AM by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)

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To: jazminerose

Competition will be introduced via allowing ins cos to operate across state lines.

Probably unconstitutional. And if not, what will force insurance companies to sell across state lines?

Pre existing conditions will be covered by special risk pools.

And if your state chooses not to fund a special risk pool?

There will be tax credits to offset the cost of health insurance. And everyone gets to have an HSA.

If they can afford to fund an HSA. And if the credits cover the increasingly expensive premiums.

People who can’t afford to buy will be able to get Medicaid.

If they didn't qualify for Medicaid before Obamacare then they won't be able to get Medicaid under this plan since it eliminates the Medicaid expansion.

Now, what is it I’ve got wrong? I admit to not spending much time on reading the Act.

It doesn't address the Obamcare problem of skyrocketing healthcare insurance premiums.

16 posted on 3/7/2017, 11:39:15 AM by DoodleDawg

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To: GIdget2004

hope people on twitter bombard Trump, Ryan, Etc and remind them this is not even close to what most of Americans supporting Trump said they wanted and we remember trump said/agreed Health care across state lines and many other things not addressed or improperly addressed in this slapped together legislation.

32 posted on 3/7/2017, 3:28:10 PM by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)

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To: GIdget2004

Total capitulation.

33 posted on 3/7/2017, 3:31:25 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)

Mustached Demon posted:

Pretty terrifying that the tea party fuckwads being grumpy at the GOP might be the Democratic party's best shot in 2018.

put a kettle on posted:

Nah, what's terrifying is that this seems to be the Democrats' actual 2018 plan in its entirety.

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To: SeekAndFind

I knew it. I should have voted for Hillary.

24 posted on 03/07/2017 10:00:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Jagged Jim posted:

Jagged Jim posted:

Jagged Jim posted:

Keeshhound posted:

- that would be one mindfuck of a thread title

Keeshhound posted:

A storm of thoughts are tearing through my mind.

- that would be one mindfuck of a thread title

- no, seriously, what?

- how could they think her proposal would be one that they'd like more?

-

chitoryu12 posted:

This guy has got to be dead now.

Jagged Jim posted:

quote:

To: SeekAndFind

I knew it. I should have voted for Hillary.

24 posted on 03/07/2017 10:00:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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HappyHippo posted:

Seconded

Debate & Discussion › Freepers: I should have voted for Hillary.

quote:

Every time Putin assasinates somebody, it’s keeping another piece of this degeneracy out of his country. God bless Putin.


32 posted on March 7, 2017 at 7:52:26 PM CST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Pontius Pilate posted:

Like us and dems?

quote:

Freepers: me thinks the magic negro needs an rear end whoopin

quote:

We voted you in, gave you the majority in the House, the majority in Senate, delivered the presidency and soon the judiciary. You have been given a mandate to repeal ObamaCare in every election cycle since 2010. Do your job! Do not betray us!

No more excuses!

Screw the democrats and their unconstitutional socialist entitlement schemes! We did not vote you in to deliver ObamaCare-lite! Repeal every word of this unconstitutional boondoggle!! No more government entitlements!!

The constitution clearly reserves health care to the states and the people. Feds stay OUT!!
Do the job you were elected to do! Repeal ObamaCare NOW or get the hell OUT!!

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To: Jim Robinson

Jim, I called my congress critters today and told them repeal only. There is no replace.

2 posted on 03/07/2017 4:31:22 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Jim Robinson

PRyno sure knows how to make a mean Kr@p Sandwich....

3 posted on 03/07/2017 4:31:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes! Do not betray us!! Repeal it!!

8 posted on 03/07/2017 4:33:29 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Jim Robinson

Repeal or be primarried.

11 posted on 03/07/2017 4:35:37 PM PST by Lexington Green (Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
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To: babble-on

They control the senate. They control the senate rules. WWHRD? Fifty and the VP!

15 posted on 03/07/2017 4:36:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree; but I think we have already been betrayed otherwise it would have been repealed already.

17 posted on 03/07/2017 4:36:54 PM PST by Memphis Moe
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To: Jim Robinson

Can a leopard change its spots? The GOP has been betraying us for the last 29 years. Why should we expect any differently?

22 posted on 03/07/2017 4:38:29 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: babble-on

Bullshit.

They can do whatever the Hell they want.

And they obviously do no want to repeal it.

What a bunch of skunks.

23 posted on 03/07/2017 4:38:39 PM PST by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Jim Robinson

The Uniparty eunuchs like Ryan will never repeal Obamacare.
Tweaking around the edges is all they want to do.

27 posted on 03/07/2017 4:39:50 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: McGruff

Donald Trump must read FreeRepublic, because just a couple of hours ago I said right here that Rand Paul should be the one driving this in Congress:

Post #8!

Carry on, Mr. President!!

33 posted on 03/07/2017 4:42:35 PM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; babble-on

They’re going to have just as hard a time getting the votes to pass RYNOCare. Best do the right thing now and repeal every word of ObamaCare like they promised us they would. Every steenking one of them pledged to repeal ObamaCare!!

38 posted on 03/07/2017 4:45:34 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Az Joe

We are doing the equivalent of turning a huge ocean liner around and setting her on a new course. We are slowly turning in the right direction.

The promise wasn't: We're going to slowly turn this huge ocean liner around.

The promise was: We're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Period.

40 posted on 03/07/2017 4:45:55 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: jmacusa

The government should NOT be involved in healthcare. Medicare is going to be forever... we don’t want any more.

A very few federal regulations for the health insurance industry is all we need.

1. All insurance policies can be sold in all 50 states
2. Every company needs to offer, among whatever else they want to offer, at least one low cost catastrophic plan.
3. Every company needs to offer at least one high cost pre-existing plan.

The Feds can offer start up funding to states encouraging CHARITIES to run free and low cost clinics in their state.

43 posted on 03/07/2017 4:47:15 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Jim Robinson

I can’t wait until Next spring when all the freeloaders, leeches and Criminal Invaders get their 12-14 Thousand Dollar (check from the IRS) tax credit and spend a couple of months vacationing the world on my freaking dime!

47 posted on 03/07/2017 4:51:23 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Az Joe

Its an analogy.

Yes, I know dear.

And nothing in the President's campaign promise suggested a multi-layered phased-in repeal and replace.

If this passes, without helping the people who need help with accessing affordable insurance and healthcare--ie: his voters, the POTUS runs the risk of looking less than honest or less than capable.

It is WAY to early in his term for either ... and I'm not talking about an analogy.

51 posted on 03/07/2017 4:53:23 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: TADSLOS

Unfortunately, the republican congress is at the helm.

No, the President is at the helm and the repeal and replacement of Obamacare is one of the reasons.

If Congress is blocking him, he needs to let us know how and we will stand and help push them in the right direction.

But, apparently, the President thinks this plan is "wonderful". So maybe we don't need to be blaming Congress.

53 posted on 03/07/2017 4:57:09 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Jim Robinson

Well it is up to us to control our reps and senators to get what we want.

Not open letters or press releases or pretty pleases.

We have all become soft with congress recently and let them slide while the left have flooded town halls with shills.

We cannot just sit on our butts and just expect them to do what is right this time. We are the ones that cannot betray ourselves this time.

54 posted on 03/07/2017 4:57:41 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Jim Robinson

They passed a straight repeal already. Obama vetoed.
Just do that again.

The Uniparty eunuchs don’t want to, because this time it might get signed.

55 posted on 03/07/2017 4:59:41 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bump. Another POS “compromise” by the Grand Old Party of cowardice, skulduggery, and deceit.

57 posted on 03/07/2017 5:00:20 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: babble-on; Jim Robinson

The senate has 52 gop seats. The only reason that isn’t sufficient is because they won’t get rid of the disingenuous and duplicitous filibuster.

But that’s really academic. There is no number of senate seats that will suffice for these bums to do what they were elected to do. They could have 99 seats in the senate, the entire house, 49 legislatures, all the governorships, the Presidency, all seats on the supreme court....and still, the gop would be positing reasons why they just can’t get it done.

The simpler and more honest reason is the gop never had any intention whatsoever of doing what it was elected to do. They were as surprised as hitlery on November 8th; they expected to go back to their long term role as the “loyal opposition:”, with their snouts firmly wedged in the public trough. They were surprised, nay horrified to find that they had won. And here we see the result.

63 posted on 03/07/2017 5:09:33 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: Jim Robinson

They can’t repeal Obamacare, not without insuring huge Democratic majorities in the House and Senate in 2018.

Members of Congress may not know much, but they can count votes like a pimp can count money.

There are two things the voters don’t like about Obamacare - the name, and paying for it. The rest of it, they will never give up.

76 posted on 03/07/2017 5:37:01 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: McGruff

Just out of curiosity, if this passes and President Trump signs it, how will that hypothetically effect FR’s official position (if there is on) on President Trump?

80 posted on 03/07/2017 5:43:14 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Paladin2

Ryan and his “better way” can go pound sand!!!

94 posted on 03/07/2017 6:30:09 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes!

Freaking always trying to wine about the position that they hold, do your job!

100 posted on 03/07/2017 6:49:12 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: babble-on
They can’t repeal the whole thing. That’s just the facts.

The facts are these, Mitch can break the filibuster and repeal this tin, he won't have another chance. This Ryan-McConnel bill will likely cost us the Senate in two years.

If the Uniparty had any real plan to defeat ObamaCare why would they fund it 100% since it passed and even worse they refused to force the President to obey they law and move the bill forward allowing him to postpone the pain of this monstrosity until he left office.

Millions love Trump but several million voted for Trump because they couldn't believe a word the UniParty said. If they start to feel they can't believe Trump, they will drop him like a hot rock. Then where will we be?

We have some downers on these threads because we don't want him to fail, he is someone that genuinely loves this country and the people, but we feel some of his closest advisors don't share our values, hopes and dreams for our Republic.
102 posted on 03/07/2017 6:55:31 PM PST by itsahoot
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The government should NOT be involved in healthcare. Medicare is going to be forever... we don’t want any more.

Jagged Jim posted:

Dear GOP Congress: Do NOT betray us! Repeal ObamaCare NOW!!

JimRob has spoken!

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To: jmacusa 

The government should NOT be involved in healthcare. Medicare is going to be forever... we don’t want any more. 

A very few federal regulations for the health insurance industry is all we need. 

1. All insurance policies can be sold in all 50 states 
 2. Every company needs to offer, among whatever else they want to offer, at least one low cost catastrophic plan. 
 3. Every company needs to offer at least one high cost pre-existing plan. 

The Feds can offer start up funding to states encouraging CHARITIES to run free and low cost clinics in their state. 

43 posted on 03/07/2017 4:47:15 PM PST by Yaelle 
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myron cope posted:

E: is there a gofundme-type site that is only for medical bills? I know that's what a lot of people end up using gofundme for... If not, nobody steal my idea.

Keeshhound posted:

There are several; it's one of the clearest indicators of how hosed up the currant system is.

Jagged Jim posted:

My employer got me disability insurance and payed the premiums for it, how dare they!

Pontius Pilate posted:

Real jam we're in. We're so berry, berry hosed.

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To: McGruff 

Just out of curiosity, if this passes and President Trump signs it, how will that hypothetically effect FR’s official position (if there is on) on President Trump? 

80 posted on 03/07/2017 5:43:14 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.) 
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
We dodged a bullet this time with white women.

I CANT imagine what they don’t like about what he’s doing.

But then I can’t imagine ever understanding the opposite sex if I lived to 1000


14 posted on 3/8/2017, 12:09:36 AM by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Take my revatio hint, bang them into a stupor, and then tell them how to vote. Hell, my woman is just as smart as me. She loves to argue politics against me but vote... She votes the way I do.


15 posted on 3/8/2017, 12:22:38 AM by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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Millions love Trump but several million voted for Trump because they couldn't believe a word the UniParty said. If they start to feel they can't believe Trump, they will drop him like a hot rock. Then where will we be?