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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is tempering expectations that the Senate will pass an overhaul of the nations healthcare system, promising his colleagues a vote but not success.
McConnell in his public comments and private conversations about the ObamaCare repeal and replace bill is painting a more sober picture than Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who in March guaranteed passage through the House.
McConnell is stopping well short of any grand pronouncement.
He says he will bring a bill to the floor for a vote, but is not making any promises whether he will get at least 50 members of the 52-member Senate GOP conference to back it.
Mitch has been very clear in our conference, and that is there will be a bill and we will be voting on it, said Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.).
But thats as far as the GOP leader has been willing to go.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/335353-gop-leader-tempers-obamacare-expectations
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)... to end the abomination that they say Obamacare is, and then use it as a campaign issue - again. And Republican voters will wail and gnash their teeth and keep voting Republican, even as they and the rest of America continue to enjoy the benefits of Obamacare.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)They had all the time in the world to show they actually cared and wanted to fix or improve the ACA but out of spite they chose not to. Instead they scraped together a wealthcare bill. And now after their beer party, reality is setting in. Some of the Greed Over Principles will people are looking out for themselves and looking at their constituents in regard to reelection. They are also trying to shape this to blame the Democrats which is nothing new.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Their sponsors(corporations who owned them lock stock and barrel) need their pound of flesh in the form of Tax Breaks.
With investigations looming into hot money and McConnell,Slimy Mitch will pull the trigger.
Jimbo101
(776 posts)ACA does need some fixing & Republicans are not going to do anything.
Aetna and Humana are leaving next year (which Aetna threatened to do if their merger with Humana was not approved)
Red states that did not create markets are dragging down the system.
I think this may have been their plan all along - create more chaos (Trump is good at that) - and finally crash ACA - then complain that it didn't work.
Hope I'm wrong.