Report: Walden Expects AHCA on Trump's Desk by August

[DonViejo]

Source: Roll Call



Energy and Commerce chairman says there are plenty of challenges ahead

Posted Jun 14, 2017 11:35 AM
Eric Garcia

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Rep. Greg Walden predicted a bill to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law would be on President Donald Trump’s desk by August. But Walden told the Wall Street Journal’s CFO Network meeting this doesn’t mean there were no challenges ahead.

“I got a lot of public counsel from my friends in the Senate for the several months we were working on this,” he said, but since the Senate began drafting a bill, “it’s been radio silence.”

Walden seemed to distance himself from a provision that would allow insurers to charge more from people with costly conditions.

“In an auto insurance market, you can for the most part control your behavior,” he said. “With health care, you can wake up one morning, and your doctor says, ‘You’ve got breast cancer,’ or ‘You’ve got this problem or that problem.’”


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[SHRED]

1. LOL...not gonna happen I predict

[NCjack]

2. If the bill passes the Senate, I expect more violence against Repugs. Today's

shooting will inspire more mentally ill to act.

[freddyvh]

3. with the entire month of august off?

not gonna happen

[Mr.Bill]

4. Right now they've got nothing.

And they know it. That's why all the secrecy.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. From the WSJ article linked in the OP

[*** <..>

"The House and Senate remain far apart on health issues, including rolling back the Medicaid expansion and curtailing protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions. The two chambers may have to agree on a compromise bill for the president to sign."

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-congressman-sees-health-care-bill-on-presidents-desk-by-august-1497374788 ***]

It's not that "the two chambers *may* have to agree...", THEY MUST VOTE ON THE IDENTICAL BILL and pass it in BOTH chambers before it can head to Drumpf. If the House barely passed their draconian measure that included one sweetener for a couple moderates and then the Senate threw that out, you can imagine what they might do to whatever the Senate tosses their way. What they might try to do is a kick-the-can-down-the-road thing and say none of the "repeal" stuff will go into effect until after the 2018 election.

[Cosmocat]

8. You may be underestimating how far off the reservation they are

and them being as quiet about this as they are should worry us all.

IMO, they full on just pass it out of procedure, throw their own big ass party over it and just short of outright say "fuck off" when people scream about it.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I know that the group that was elected from 2010 and on

(63 House seats and 6 Senate seats in the 2010 election alone) are a huge pile of slime that represented the worst of the worst of humanity - all due to the manufactured hatred of Obama and the ACA ("Obamacare&quot . And because of that wave, the previously annoying but somewhat benign more senior GOP representatives, were forced to drink that Koolaid and follow along, and have nurtured that new group of miscreants.

However over the past 7 years or so, a big subset of that group seemed to have solidified their demands to get rid of the ACA completely, once and for all. And just like they ran Cheeto Boner out of the Speakership (and office), they may double-down and go more hard-line if a new version comes their way from the Senate that doesn't go apocalyptic on the ACA - just based on their assertion of their astroturf principle (which the Kochs have instilled in them and where the Kochs had threatened any who passed the "watered down" AHCA, with being primaried).

So we shall see.

[geretogo]

7. Rethugs take pride in being Americas official federal death panel . They are paid to kill by the

Koch brothers .

[Astraea]

10. It takes that long to

build a wall of shit?

[nikibatts]

11. It may be Pence's desk by then unless Pence is tried for perjury.