Paul Ryan rushed to the White House to tell Trump he does not have the votes to repeal Obamacare

[DonViejo]

Paul Ryan rushed to the White House to tell President Trump he does not have the votes to pass the repeal of Obamacare

By ROBERT PEAR, JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JENNIFER STEINHAUERMARCH 24, 2017

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, rushed to the White House Friday afternoon to inform President Trump he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration.

The president and the speaker faced the humiliating prospect of a major defeat on legislation promised for seven years, since the landmark health legislation was signed into law. President Trump had demanded a vote regardless, which has been scheduled for Friday afternoon. But House leaders were leaning against such a public loss.

The House opened debate Friday on what would have been one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in years, a bill that would have rolled back a major, established social welfare program, a feat that is almost unheard of.

The Republican legislation, called the American Health Care Act, would end the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that almost everyone have health care, replacing it with a system of age-based tax credits to purchase health insurance — a shift that would save the government hundreds of billions of dollars and would cut taxes, but could leave 24 million more Americans without coverage in a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

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[Vogon_Glory]

1. Losing the ACA repeal battle may look good to Donnie in hindsight

Because if the ACA, Medicare, and SS still covers his base in about four years, his voters will come to believe that he "protected" their health coverage from the machinations of Wicked Hillary and other Democrats.

[global1]

2. What Ever Happens Today On This Vote One Thing Is For Certain....

It's Friday and after the vote all these Repug Representatives in the House will be hightailing it out of town with no comment.

They can't get out of Washington D.C. soon enough.