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Senator: GOP is writing health care bill in secret, without experts
05/24/17 09:20 AM By Steve Benen
Later today, the Congressional Budget Office will release its report on the final House Republican health care plan, which passed the lower chamber a few weeks ago. That CBO score will initiate a new round of policymaking in the Senate, where the chambers health care working group 13 conservative white guys have been quietly crafting their own legislation.
In fact, quietly is a polite way of describing the Senate process. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has insisted on as much secrecy as he can muster, and hes made a deliberate decision to exclude all Senate Democrats 48% of the chamber, representing more than 50% of the country from the deliberations. (There is some irony to the fact that Donald Trump is looking for ways to force Democrats to the negotiating table, while GOP leaders block Dems from reaching that table.)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senator-gop-writing-health-care-bill-secret-without-experts
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Take all doctors out and it will work great!!!
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)At the risk of sounding paranoid, I think it's pretty simple. They want to kill us and take our stuff.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)13 conservative(republican)white guys hold the fate of millions of Americans in their rich, fat, greedy little hands.
What could possibly go wrong?
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)I'll bet each one of those guys goes home & whines about what a bad day they had. Eliminating an entire nation of poor people takes work.
dchill
(38,322 posts)Sometimes they really are out to get you.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)As we will all see soon enough sadly.
dchill
(38,322 posts)special sunglasses to see them.
("They Live" 1988, John Carpenter film.)
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Trump's apparent attempt to build some sort of "Garibaldi"- style army using his rally attenders.