Anxious lawmakers to GOP leaders: Whats the plan to replace Obamacare?

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Anxious lawmakers to GOP leaders: What’s the plan to replace Obamacare?

By Mike DeBonis January 12 at 4:45 PM

House Republican leaders attempted to quell concerns of a skittish rank-and-file before a key vote Friday to begin unwinding the Affordable Care Act.

The assurances came after lawmakers across the GOP’s ideological divides sounded anxious notes this week about advancing legislation that would repeal Obamacare without firm plans for its replacement.

“We just want more specifics,”said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday.“We need to know what we’re going to replace it with.” Meadows said he was personally undecided on his vote Friday and that other caucus members were leaning no.

Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), chairman of the moderate Tuesday Group, said members of that caucus have “serious reservations” about starting the process without replacement plans spelled out.“We’d like to have this conversation prior to the repeal vote,” he said.

Those jitters hint at a rocky road ahead as Republicans start trying to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise. They have forced GOP leaders to reassure lawmakers that they will not move precipitously and open Republicans to charges they threw the health-care system into chaos.

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[asiliveandbreathe]

1. To me - they speak with forked tougue - rhetoric - feigned anxious -

Now, how many people will lose Healthcre? - This is just the first step - their green light to dismantling ACA - I laugh they FORCED GOP leaders - what a charade....JITTERS MY ARSE!!!

[Historic NY]

2. Death!!!!!!!!!

[Chasstev365]

3. Die QUICKLY!

[Skittles]

4. their PLAN is for us to have WHAT WE HAD BEFORE

*NOTHING*

[J_William_Ryan]

5. Cowardly Republicans

absent the Obama veto safety net.

[NCjack]

6. Rep. Mark Meadows (NC-11) -- He's a slippery coward. He knows that the GOP

leadership's plan is "repeal and run". His calculation is: "Can I vote to unwind the ACA, and if things go bad, can I repeal & run and win the next election? Since NC-11 is the state's most westward district, it has mostly poor whites with low paying jobs in the mountains. How is his vote going to rip for the next election? Well, it's going to rip poor v. whites. They want "ObamaCare" repealed, and they want the gov't to keep its crooked "fangers" off ACA. No matter what happens, Meadows will have to explain to his district voters that ObamaCare and ACA are the same program. And, whatever he votes, about 50% of his constituents are going to be unhappy. If only he had educated his voters: ObamaCare and ACA are the same name for the program designed to save their lives.

[kacekwl]

7. NOW a warning.