Washington – House GOP Abruptly Pulls Troubled Health Care Bill

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    Republican Speaker of the House from Wisconsin Paul Ryan leaves the White House after speaking to U.S. President Donald J. Trump about the upcoming health care vote in Washington, DC, USA, 24 March 2017.EPAWashington – Republican leaders of the House of Representatives pulled legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system from consideration on Friday due to a shortage of votes despite desperate lobbying by the White House and its allies in Congress, dealing a stiff setback to President Donald Trump.

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    Republican leaders had planned a vote on the measure after Trump cut off negotiations with Republicans who had balked at the plan and issued an ultimatum to vote on Friday, win or lose.

    Republican moderates as well as the most conservative lawmakers had objected to the legislation. The White House and House leaders were unable to come up with a plan that satisfied both moderates and conservatives.

    Trump told the Washington Post: “We just pulled it.”

    Amid a chaotic scramble for votes, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who has championed the bill, met with Trump at the White House before the bill was pulled from the House floor after hours of debate.

    Trump told the Post the healthcare bill would not be coming up again in the near future and that he wanted to see if Democrats who uniformly objected to the Republican plan would come to him to work on healthcare legislation, a Washington Post reporter said on MSNBC.

    Without the bill’s passage in Congress, Democratic former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, the 2010 Affordable Care Act – known as Obamacare – would remain in place despite seven years of Republican promises to dismantle it.

    Repealing and replacing Obamacare was a top campaign promise by Trump in the 2016 presidential election, as well as by most Republican candidates, “from dog-catcher on up,” as White House spokesman Sean Spicer put it during a briefing on Friday.

    The House failure to pass the measure called into question Trump’s ability to get other key parts of his agenda, including tax cuts and a boost in infrastructure spending, through a Congress controlled by his own party.

    “There’s nobody that objectively can look at this effort and say the president didn’t do every single thing he possibly could with this team to get every vote possible,” Spicer told reporters before the legislation was pulled.

    Trump already has been stymied by federal courts that blocked his executive actions barring entry into the United States of people from several Muslim-majority nations. Some Republicans worry a defeat on the healthcare legislation could cripple his presidency just two months after the wealthy New York real estate mogul took office.

    In a blow to the bill’s prospects, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen announced his opposition, expressing concern about reductions in coverage under the Medicaid insurance program for the poor and the retraction of “essential” health benefits that insurers must cover.

    “We need to get this right for all Americans,” Frelinghuysen said.


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    7 years ago

    Read it and weep, Trumpsters, especially trumpISprez. Looks like it’s the beginning of the end for agent orange and your Republiclowns.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    Democracy is at work. Long Live Obamacare. The POTUS is a joke.

    7 years ago

    I agree with both posters number one and two. And can someone explain why so many people think Obamacare is so bad? Isn’t this how all insurance works? Even if I never had a car accident I still have to buy insurance that ends up paying for the damage caused by less responsible drivers who are at higher risk of getting into an accident .

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    We want Obama now! Can’t wait any more. Shabat Shalom

    Realistic
    Realistic
    7 years ago

    This is how a bill looks like when it’s crammed through the committees without a CBO score, and leadership were not looking for input of ordinary congressmans in the creation of the bill.

    To the contrary, the democrats in 2009 negotiated for 8 months, had nuemrous amendments added in the committees, consulted with the CBO and adjusted their bills. in the end “each and every democrat voted for their bill.

    This is a lack in leadership qualities from Trump and Ryen.

    pushkin
    pushkin
    7 years ago

    No plan will ever be good. They should make it like a car insurance.

    bsnow
    bsnow
    7 years ago

    Dems own the obamanocare mess.
    Hope more dems lose more seats.
    Dems have lost tons of seats since they passed it.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    Loooser.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    Winner of the Day: Obama . Runner up: Chuck Schumer Biggest Looser: POTUS Couldn’t sell it to the Republicans who elected him. Art Of The Deal.???

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    7 years ago

    It is almost as if the GOP spent the last eight years not preparing an alternative.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    7 years ago

    A man who never had problems to obtain the best medical care available cannot understand someone who lacks the funds for medical care and dies . This man is fit for making money but cannot be the president for ALL AMERICANS

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    Long live Obamacare, Mexicans are here to stay, US Embassy stays in Tel Aviv, Settlements are not helpful for Peace. A Gute Voch to all.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    7 years ago

    No one is flying in to Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. Yes we do have top hospitals like Mayo,Cleveland,Hopkins. The overall rating of US Healthcare is worst than avg. not better. We spend 4 times like Israel Europa to get worse care.