Can the House protect the ACA?

[superpatriotman]

If so it makes this a little easier.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The House controls the purse strings. nt

[Wintryjade]

2. That is my hope. House protect and the people put the fear of god into Senate Republicans.

[Azathoth]

3. Yes, up to a point

The GOP can't enact any more legislative sabotage. However, the damage they did getting rid of the mandate is already done, and Trump can still do a lot of damage through HHS waivers/regulations/etc.

So the ACA isn't dead, but it's not going to be healthy until the orange shitstain is out of office.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Yes the ACA gives the HHS secretary a lot of discretion on the ACA including the waivers you mention

that can let a state effectively opt-out of many parts.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Unless the Republicans repeal it during the lame duck session ahead,

they can stop any repeal bill from passing in the House.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. The ACA will remain the law of the land.

Without the House, the Republicans can't repeal it -- period.

There may be some worry about the court case involving preexisting conditions, but if the Supreme Court overturned protections for those with preexisting conditions, Republicans would get destroyed in 2020. Even if the Supreme Court ruled that way, I'm guessing the Democratic House would immediately put forth a bill protecting those with preexisting conditions and the Republican Senate would most likely be forced to take it up and pass it, if just to protect Republicans in 2020.

[customerserviceguy]

9. The ACA

will suffer a thousand cuts, including ones that have already been inflicted. It seems to be in a death spiral, the only thing that tonight's results mean is that the spiral will take longer to get to the ultimate conclusion.

The ACA was passed by a cobbled-together group of Democratic Representatives and Senators, and required ongoing support from a Congress that had an interest in seeing it continue. That vanished when Repukes got control of the Congress, and was confirmed by Trump, who would do anything in his executive power to vanquish it.

[onecaliberal]

6. The GOP cannot introduce anything for voting.

[customerserviceguy]

8. Nothing

Absolutely nothing, will pass both houses of Congress, for the next two years. Guaranteed.

However, anything that needs Senate confirmation only (like Cabinet officials and judges) will get through. I'm an atheist, but for my friends here who are religious, pray for the health of Justice Ginsberg.

[Blue_true]

10. Yes. nt