Republican Obamacare replacement bill passes House

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After years of debate, the House on Thursday voted to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act and replace them with new provisions.

The vote, which President Donald Trump was planning to tout as a big victory, sends the Republican-sponsored bill to gut Obamacare to the Senate for consideration.

 

 

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But winning approval for the bill could be even more difficult in the Senate than it has been in the House, where Republican leaders struggled for nearly two months to wrangle enough votes in their caucus to secure its passage.

The bill passed by a vote of 217 to 213. All 193 Democrats voting opposed the bill; they were joined by 20 Republicans voting "no."

"A lot of us have waited seven years to case this vote," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said shortly before the voting began. "Many of us are here because we pledged to cast this vote: to repeal and replace Obamacare."

"This bill delivers the promises we have made to the American people," Ryan said.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told MSNBC shortly before the vote began, "We were elected to do this."

After the vote, protesters outside the Capitol building yelled, "Shame, shame!" at members of Congress walking down the front steps.

The bill — which would dramatically change the way the federal government funds purchases of individual health plans and Medicaid — is expected to dramatically increase the number of people without health insurance if enacted into law.

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Repeal and replace, round two.

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One-Third of Americans Are on Government Healthcare

12 HOURS AGO Ryan McMaken

The US House of Representatives voted to day to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. Unfortunately, those who use the phrase "repeal and replace" are greatly exaggerating the extent to which the Affordable Care Act is actually repealed. 

While perhaps a tiny step in the right direction, the new legislation signals no departure whatsoever from the long-established trend of expanding the role of government programs in subsidizing the regulating the health care industry. 

Perhaps worst of all, since this is being called a "repeal," many may be prompted to think that the US health care system is a "free market" system, or that government spending has only a very small role in the industry. 

This couldn't be further from the truth. 

In fact, the US is fourth in the world in terms of per capita government spending on health care, behind only Norway, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. That's government spending,  not overall spending: 

In fact, those numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO) are from 2014, and with the expansion in Medicaid spending under Obamacare, it's entirely plausible that the US has moved into third place in the past two years    https://mises.org/blog/one-third-americans-are-government-healthcare 

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We won’t forget the GOP No List in 2018

By Herman Cain -- American Politics

Everyone knew House Democrats weren’t going to vote for the American Health Care Act. It repeals one of the biggest pieces of socialism ever passed in this country, and Democrats love socialism. So it was understood that all the yes votes, of which there were 217, would have to come from Republicans.   

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Citizens of Chicago need “relief” from “visual noise” of Trump Tower Sign

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As sure as private citizen Barack Hussein Obama will lap up all credit should Brigette Marie-Claude Macron’s little boy Emmanuel win France’s presidential election, pigs really do fly.

Pigs don’t only fly these days, they sing while in fanciful flight.  And the song they sing is “Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye,”  like when they sang off-key in unison as the health care bill crossed the finish line with the 216 votes needed to pass yesterday.    

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ObamaCare vote throws curve into tax reform

BY NAOMI JAGODA - 05/06/17 12:08 PM EDT

The House’s passage of legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare has thrown a new curve into Republicans’ efforts to overhaul the tax code.

The vote, which came just a week after the White House rolled out its tax reform plan, took much of official Washington by surprise. A previous attempt to muscle through the legislation had failed in March.

Experts are mixed on what the sudden progress on ObamaCare repeal means for tax reform. While some said that House Republicans’ ability to coalesce around a bill bodes well for passage of tax legislation, others warned the Senate could get bogged down on healthcare, stalling the agenda.

“This may be one step forward, one step back,” said Sage Eastman, a lobbyist at Mehlman Castagnetti and a former senior counselor on the House Ways and Means Committee.     http://thehill.com/policy/finance/332175-obamacare-vote-throws-curve-into-tax-reform