GOP takes heat for ObamaCare secrecy

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Source: The Hill

House Republicans are coming under growing pressure to release their ObamaCare repeal and replace plan ahead of committee markups that could begin next week.

Even some Republican lawmakers are criticizing their party for the lack of access to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's draft bill, which is apparently being kept in a designated room in the Capitol where entry is limited to certain members.

“We want to see the bill. We have many objections,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told a swarm of reporters Thursday as he tried to get into the room where he thought the bill was located. “We're here asking for a written copy of this because this should be an open and transparent process.”

Democrats complain that they are being kept in the dark about the legislation and fear they will not have enough chance to review it before a committee vote. They also note that there have not been hearings about the plan, something that traditionally happens before legislation is marked up in committee.

The repeal bill is moving so quickly that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) might not have a chance to score it before the Energy and Commerce Committee’s vote, according to Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.).

Without the CBO analysis, lawmakers would be voting on the measure without estimates of how much the legislation would cost or how many people could lose or gain insurance coverage.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/322108-gop-takes-heat-for-obamacare-secrecy

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Secrecy means trouble. Period.

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1. Defunding Planned Parenthood is probably part of the ACA repeal bill

Speaker Paul Ryan said earlier this year that Planned Parenthood would be defunded in the same bill as the ObamaCare repeal.

A draft of the ObamaCare repeal that leaked last week shows that Republicans may use the same language they did in the 2015 bill, which would block Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers for a year.

While existing law already prevents federal money from going towards abortion funding, Republicans want to stop the organization from receiving federal reimbursements for non-abortion women’s health services it provides.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/322105-some-gop-lawmakers-oppose-tying-planned-parenthood-to-obamacare-repeal

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2. Love that story of Rand Paul BANGING on the door....

Then they tell him there is nothing in the room that he's talking about.

"Aides in the room told the senator -- before dozens of reporters in a crowded hallway -- that there was no bill to see. "

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6. Rand Paul got punked.

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3. Repealing ACA bill will probably include:

- Health savings accounts (Who can "save" for health issues?)
- Tax credits to help with a portion of the premium (a lot less help)
- Pre-existing conditions persons would have "access" to health care ("access" means expensive)
- High risk insurance pools (expensive for the ones with health issues)
- Funding goes to state discretion (which means it does not reach the low-income folks)

We can guess this new bill will be something very painful for people, in many ways.

[Bengus81]

4. Yep.....

---Start saving for your heart surgery NOW
---Tax credit of $250.00 per month to pay for an $850.00 per month premium
---Pre-existing would have access to a ultra expensive policy OR deductibles of $50-75,000
---Phony insurance companies "cross State lines" to sell insurance and then DENY claims
---Turn funding over to Gov Brownback here in Kansas to use for keeping a ZERO % tax rate for LLC's and other corporations

Yeah,sounds like the NEO CONS have outdone themselves on this one....

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5. We are getting good at raising our voices, only to get even better at it.

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8. "Unrecognizable American governing."

Yes.

This is what a country is when it is run by billionaires and capitalism. We have been going down this road for a long time, culminating into this mess.

[JudyM]

9. I'd love to see an expose of what our Dem leadership has been doing all these years to combat

this villainous growth process.

[Skittles]

10. well it's pretty simple

if you don't have the adequate information, VOTE NO

heck, just VOTE NO; everyone knows it will be garbage

[alterfurz]

11. leaked copy of "Don T. Care"...

...akaDontCare:

DontCare Bronze Plan: "Just Say No to Illness"
Silver: "Pray"
Gold: "Pray Harder"
Platinum: A used paperback copy of Gray's Anatomy, Swiss Army knife, needle & thread, band-aids, and a $1-off coupon for Extra Strength Tylenol

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12. LOL - you got that right