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mitch-mcconnell-obamacare-repeal-bill-nearWashington Times:

Congress has the chance to end Obamacare’s “cycle of broken promises and failures with just 51 votes,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, cuing up votes this week on a fast-track measure to gut much of the 2010 health care law and defund Planned Parenthood over its abortion practice.

 

The GOP leader is leveraging a process known as “budget reconciliation” to avoid a Democratic filibuster and finally put an Obamacare repeal bill on President Obama’s desk.Scissors-32x32.png


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Sure there is.

I'm not sure what your saying --

 

I am skeptical there is a bill with the real intent of getting rid of O'care. More likely a for show thing with no hope of going anywhere.

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Sure there is.

I'm not sure what your saying --

 

I am skeptical there is a bill with the real intent of getting rid of O'care. More likely a for show thing with no hope of going anywhere.

 

Bill in in the Senate debating today vote Thursday 51 votes needed, can not be filibuster, Of course O's going to veto it.

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Senate GOP plans to beef up ObamaCare repeal package

Senate Republicans are moving ahead with an ObamaCare repeal package they say will go significantly further than a bill passed by the House in a bid to win over conservatives.

 

They hope to approve legislation that would repeal -ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, which 30 states have adopted, and eliminate the insurance exchanges and subsidies set up by the landmark law, according to Senate GOP sources.

 

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is playing his cards close to the vest, keeping many details secret.Scissors-32x32.png

 

The parliamentarian advised Tuesday that it would pass the Byrd Rule, according to a senior Democratic aide.

 

The Byrd Rule is the litmus test for passing legislation under special budgetary rules that require only a simple majority. To pass muster, legislation must be primarily focused on addressing the deficit, which is why only provisions that have a budgetary impact may be included.Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/261748-senate-gop-plans-to-beef-up-obamacare-repeal-package

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Obama will veto Obamacare repeal

 

President Obama will veto a bill repealing large pieces of his healthcare law and blocking federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the White House said Wednesday morning.

The Senate is voting on amendments to the bill, which is the culmination of a major Republican effort this year to pass an Obamacare repeal bill and send it to the president's desk, even though Obama has long threatened to veto it. Congressional Republicans have voted to repeal the law many times, but this is the first time lawmakers are using a process called budget reconciliation, which requires only a simple Senate majority to pass.

The House has passed a version of the legislation and would have to re-approve it after it is amended by the Senate. The Senate is expected to hold a final vote Thursday.

Republicans are finally coalescing around the bill after sharp disagreements over exactly which parts of Obamacare to include in it and whether to also use it to broadcast their dislike of Planned Parenthood, a women's health provider that also performs the most abortions in the U.S.Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-will-veto-obamacare-repeal/article/2577440

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GOP on cusp of ObamaCare win
Alexander Bolton
12/03/15

Republicans are closer than they have ever been to sending an ObamaCare repeal bill to the president’s desk. But it’s far from a done deal.

 

* The House has voted 56 times to repeal all or part of ObamaCare, but those Republican-led efforts have died in the Senate. Now that the upper chamber is under Republican control, the party has a chance to score a significant — if only symbolic — victory on Thursday.

President Obama would veto the bill, but clearing it through Congress would be a rare legislative win for the GOP on the controversial healthcare law. With a couple of defections expected, it’s unclear whether Senate Republicans have the necessary 51 votes. Thursday’s dramatic roll call is expected to go down to the wire.

 

Republicans can only afford three GOP defections, if all senators vote. Republican leaders are still not 100 percent certain how some senators will vote. Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) office and centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) declined to say Wednesday which way they are leaning. Collins has raised concerns about language in the bill that would eliminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood.

 

Cruz, a presidential candidate, has called for the complete repeal of ObamaCare, but the current bill is more targeted. It’s also unclear how other White House hopefuls, such as Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), will vote.

 

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* That Would Be The House lead by that squishy ultra moderate establishment GOPe John Boehner who is a secret socialist a minion of Barack Obama.

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The ACA Debate Isn’t Going Away
Dec 02, 2015

Two years ago, the White House, tired of defending the Affordable Care Act against from challenges in court, Congress, and the ballot box, popularized a hashtag for its signature legislative achievement—#ItsTheLaw—intended to convey that the debate had been settled. Despite Democratic exasperation, however, we shouldn’t expect the debate over Obamacare to cease anytime soon—both because major components of the law haven’t been implemented yet, and because, even if the law limps along without any new unpleasant surprises, it will not solve the underlying unsustainability of our healthcare system. Ben Domenech has a perceptive piece in the Daily Beast arguing that Obamacare could end up being a key political issue in the 2016 election:

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Domenech is likely right. As we’ve written before, “the Affordable Care Act is looking more like a clown car than an emergency rescue vehicle,” and Republicans are not going to miss the opportunity to point to the failures of politicians that set it in motion.

 

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Solving this problem will require major, market-oriented reforms, coupled with new innovations in the private sector (we’ve listed a few potential avenues for future reform). If politicians want to really meet voters where they are on healthcare, they need to do more than point out the health care crisis; they must think creatively about ways to make U.S. healthcare delivery cheaper, faster, and more affordable. The 2016 presidential contenders should have their staffs looking closely as the subject as well—because as Domenech points out, this issue is not going away.

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