House GOP Nervous About Health Care Bill

[DonViejo]

July 9, 2017 at 10:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Jonathan Swan: “House members are super-anxious about health care, and the pessimism levels are rising about getting a bill from the Senate. As everyone predicted, including Mitch McConnell: the July 4 recess made a bad situation worse.”

“The brutal math: Assuming Vice President Pence as the tie-breaker, Republicans can only lose 2 senators. There are at least 3 hard nays (Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Dean Heller of Nevada), and perhaps 5 (add Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas). Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is on the bubble.”

But a good caveat: “The doomsday forecasts fail to account for the fact that in Congress, everything is always in trouble until politics creates momentum.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/09/house-gop-nervous-health-care-bill/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Maybe the popularity of the House Bill and now that CBO has scored the Senate

Bill and it is not any more popular. Yes, they may have the majority in Congress but this can change in one election. For seven years the Republicans have run on repealing Obamacare and now they have the numbers and president to sign a repeal bill and voters have risen up and showing they are not happy with the repeal. Though there could be some improvements to the ACA we do not want to give up pre-existing conditions, life time caps removed, children allowed to be on parents insurance until 26 are things we do not want to give up.

[Motownman78]

2. And those things are expensive

especially the pre-existing condition clause. The Republicans have really no choice between total repeal or leave ACA the way it is. Pelosi was brilliant (Obama as well) with how they crafted the ACA.