Flowchart showing Republican path to #ACA Repeal...

[CousinIT]

(SOURCE: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/24/16019984/obamacare-repeal-republican-flow-chart)

[lpbk2713]

1. Bottom line ...

Millions will die because the people who represent them are greedy.

[bearsfootball516]

3. You're assuming

That the GOP gets something passed. They're so fractured that just doing that will be a herculean task.

[lpbk2713]

4. Of course I am.

I'm extrapolating. Following the flow of the OP.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Except that it's already wrong . . .

They've already taken a second vote53-47 that failed - the BCRA amendment on steroids, I believe.

[Proud liberal 80]

5. So if the skinny bill passes Senate

The house will vote on it? I cant see the Paul or Lee voting for that, and if they do I can't see the Freedumb Caucus voting for that.

[haele]

6. 60/40 chance the Skinny bill passes just so they can say

"We did what we could but those selfish Democrats wouldn't help..."

Haele

[uponit7771]

7. So basically they can only get the mandate out of OCare, hmmmmm

[Egnever]

9. Doubt they can get that

That would make premiums skyrocket and eventually collapse the system entirely. Unless they are barking mad.

They might be barking mad but we still only need one that is not for all of those scenarios to fail.

[lame54]

8. Why unlikely on 51?

[genxlib]

10. Thank you for this

It is very helpful to see the permutations that are being discussed. Seeing it in prose is confusing as hell.

[OnDoutside]

11. Does 50+Pence work for them too, rather than just 51 ?

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. Nice, but no mention of a Conference Committee to reconcile House and Senate versions

Am I following this right? This chart seems to say that after a "skinny bill" is approved that McConnell would then seek to amend it with new provisions, replacing the House bill that passed. Then the House would vote to accept that version if it passes the Senate.

That doesn't sound like something the Freedom Caucus in the House would stand for. I thought a Conference Committee was supposed to hammer out a House/Senate Compromise that then would go back to both chambers for a vote.

[rgbecker]

13. In assembling the final bill, can McConnell simply ignore the amendments that pass?

Seems if the Senate votes to approve such and such an amendment, he has got to include them in the bill.

[CousinIT]

14. EffWhyEye, in addition....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029373654