Washington – Senate Leader Expects Obamacare Repeal This Week, New Plan ‘quickly’

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    Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi speak following a meeting with U.S.President Barack Obama on congressional Republicans' effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Washington – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday the Senate would take the first step in repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law by the end of this week and that a replacement health care plan would be in place “very quickly” after that.

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    President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have said dismantling Obamacare would be their top priority but have come under sharp criticism over their plan to repeal it without having alternative legislation in place.

    “You have to both repeal and replace,” McConnell told CBS’ “Face the Nation” program. “I think there, there ought not to be a great gap between the first step and the second.”

    McConnell said “we will be replacing it rapidly after repealing it” but did not give a more specific time frame.


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    Shlomo-1
    Shlomo-1
    7 years ago

    Probably better to have a plan before getting rid of the current one.
    Whatever its merits, ACA is at least in place. Repealing it with promise of a replacement at some future date is irresponsible.

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    From 1948, when President Truman first proposed universal health care, the until the ACA, the Republican Party resisted all attempts at formulating a plan for universally available health care.

    It was a GOP lobbyist who in 1948 coined the slogan “socialist health care” in opposition to Truman, a slogan has been used successfully by GOP on behalf of corporate/insurance interests for almost 70 years to fight the right to universal health care.

    In 2009 the ACA turned out to be a barely manageable mess, in very large part because universal health care advocates were effectively prevented by the GOP and their insurance industry lobbyists from using an expansion of Medicare, or a similar solution that would have been far more efficient…again, too “socialist.”

    Meanwhile, the United States has for decades remained only western country without universal health care.

    All of this can be verified easily by anyone with high school research skills and a computer connected to the Internet.

    And now…we are supposed to believe that this same GOP is going to come up with their own effective national health plan “very quickly.” Gee, where have they been for the past 70 years?

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    One of Two for TrumpIsPrez, an opinionated and ignorant little Russophile

    You say you are “…just a proud Islamophobist.” Well, here’s the Merriam Webster definition of phobia:

    “An exaggerated inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.” Merriam Webster

    The shoe fits.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    Finally…you accuse me of making “hyper media comments.” Please explain, as I have not a clue what that means.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    I stand by both my positions on Trump’s appointments…and that I would have been equally alarmed if Obama had either appointed Wright to White House position or welcomed endorsements from left wing fringe groups.

    And by the way, it’s sugar coating…not sugar coding.

    Consistent with Obama’s comment last night that people might be better off reaching out personally to opponents, rather than merely arguing on the internet, I have a radical proposal.

    I’d like to meet you, over a bourbon, beer, falafel, coke…milk…or whatever is your pleasure. If you’re game, and live anywhere between NYC and D.C., respond here….and I’m sure VIN could facilitate a confidential sharing of emails.

    yonasonw
    Member
    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    One of Two

    “…a good cop-out for not honoring my request to list one conservative principal that you agree with…”

    I agree with some traditionally conservative points, such as the importance of balanced budgets…but the problem for me today are that “conservative” as a label has become a shorthand for all sorts of social and policy commentary and for bizarre inconsistencies.

    Some examples:

    1. Fiscal conservatism will be raised as in issue in principled opposition to expensive social programs…but not in opposition to expensive military or security related programs. Whatever the policy merits are or are not, “fiscal responsibility” has become a convenient untruth;

    2. Conservatives are often heard to say that government needs to get out of people’s lives. The central position of liberalism is consistent with that…that government should not intervene in personal choices unless there is a compelling tangible public need to do so. But conservatives in fact want the government all over the individual when it comes to enforcing their moral positions on abortion, gay marriage, the centrality of marriage, etc.

    continued….

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    I have known well and worked with too many Muslims, at sea, in OTR trucking, in municipal government, for the last decade and a half in law enforcement, and with young pharmacists at both my local Rite Aid in NJ and at a Rite Aid in Baltimore…to have the luxury of the kind of sweeping generalization you are espousing.

    It just fails as a matter of personal experience…like the Lakewood PD Sergeant I met, whose attitudes about Jews and Yiddishkeit was wonderfully transformed after he actually met and got to know some of us personally.

    You are expressing common mistake in logic. Even if, for the sake of argument, all hateful terrorists are Muslim, it does not follow that all Muslims are hateful terrorists. Such fallacious logic results in collective punishment of the many for the acts of a few…and that is what you are doing.

    yonasonw
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    yonasonw
    7 years ago

    Google “justifications for racism”