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https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/07/mcconnell-now-wants-to-fix-obamacare/November 7, 2018 at 12:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 162 Comments
"SNIP....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called for working on a bipartisan basis to address shortcomings in the Affordable Care Act as Democrats prepare to take control of the House, the Washington Post reports.
His comments marked a sharp departure from Republican efforts during the past two years to repeal former president Barack Obamas signature health-care law while the party controlled both chambers of Congress and held the presidency.
.....SNIP"
applegrove
(118,642 posts)BadMachines
(26 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,958 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)malaise
(268,993 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)This is just more of the GOP's pretense of caring. It does, at least, mean he's been beaten like a rug.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)nt
rurallib
(62,414 posts)gentle Uncle Mitchy wants to take his good doggy to the vet!
rurallib
(62,414 posts)can vote 'yea' or 'nay'
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)If the Democrats go first, the Republicans will simply talk about how awful those ideas are.
Remember during the Obama-administration when the Republicans lamented that Obama must cut social-security?
He made proposal after proposal and the Republicans did nothing but trash-talking his ideas.
Until one day he demanded that THEY make proposals what to cut.
And all of a sudden they were out of words.
rurallib
(62,414 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Let Pelosi and Schumer know when you're ready to do that, m-m-mkay?
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)Hey Mitch, you and the orange shitgibbon first.
Oh, I forgot to add...Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit!!!
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Not after. Do they have time to do another repeal vote?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sure, Republicans have inflicted some damage to the ACA, particularly in making Medicare expansion subject to each state's option and fighting against the individual mandate which is one of the mechanisms for spreading the cost among the largest pool of participants. But the essential soundness of the original legislation has stood up to the worst Republicans could do to it.
States that initially refused Medicare expansion (each and every one of which were under Republican control) have seen their own citizens rise up against their legislatures and their governors to demand the Medicare expansion. Idaho voted to take the free federal money yesterday to take better care of its citizens. By participating in the expansion, the sickest citizens get immediate access to treatment, and the expensive initial outlay is absorbed by the entire country through the federal government. As participation in the program grows and the costs and risks are addressed and ameliorated, each state takes on the cost of keeping its own citizens healthy.
People like that. And they don't like what Republicans have been doing to them.
Now McConnell decides that maybe the way Kentucky and other Republican-dominated states did it isn't such a good idea and he wants to . . . well, what does he want to do? Why don't you lay your cards on the table, you blood-gargling psychopath, and we'll see if the Democrats want to play ball on your terms.
Johonny
(20,849 posts)Let's see if Mitch runs to embrace it. My guess is he won't.
bluestarone
(16,939 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)Immediate retirement is too good for the likes of you. You have nothing but contempt for democrats. We have nothing but the same now for you.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)fixes (there is already a bipartisan bill ready to go, iirc co-sponsored by Patty Murray), even in the lame duck, and then claim the credit. Fighting the popular ACA is a killer for them in 2020, as it was in 2018.
Alhena
(3,030 posts)In It to Win It
(8,250 posts)drray23
(7,627 posts)It nat well be in the GOP interest to do this. The constant attempts to repeal or otherwise handicap the ACA backfired spectacularly. That was the no1 issue people listed at the exit polls. McConnel may want to try to put this out of play for 2020. Since we control the house he can do it now and also claim bipartisanship. I would not be surprised if this happens and Trump signs it.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)ck4829
(35,075 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Mitch is like an old housecat. He's all purrs when it's his idea. But he is liable to piss in the corner if it's not.
ProfessorGAC
(65,021 posts)And he knows that his slimy partners over there don't run it anymore either, right?