Pence appeals for complete GOP support for health overhaul

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Vice President Mike Pence appealed for total GOP congressional support for a White House-backed health overhaul during a brief visit Saturday to Kentucky, where the Republican governor and junior senator are among the plan's skeptics.

"This is going to be a battle in Washington, D.C. And for us to seize this opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all, we need every Republican in Congress, and we're counting on Kentucky," Pence said at an energy company where business leaders had gathered.

He said President Donald Trump would lean on House Republicans — including two Kentucky lawmakers in the audience, Reps. Andy Barr and Brett Guthrie — to vote to replace former President Barack Obama's law.

Pence's trip was part of an effort to reassure conservatives who have raised objections to the House plan. In a sign of the high stakes, Pence's motorcade passed a long line of demonstrators who chanted, "Save our care."

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-appeals-for-complete-gop-support-for-health-overhaul/ar-AAo83Ut

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So, Pence is trying to sell how kicking tens of thousands of Kentucky residents off of healthcare is a good thing. Maybe he can convince Kentucky's Governor that his constituents are annoying, and that it would be a good thing to kill some of them off.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

1. Good chance this blows up in their faces, and even spills over into future battles including the

tax reform agenda. Let's hope they eat each other alive, and in the process continue to prove how destructive they are toward the interests of the citizens.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Pence is an idiot.

Is he too stupid to realize that Republicans have had their heads chewed off by constituents who want their Obamacare?!?

Republicans may not (and probably don't) give a shit about their constituents - but they sure do care about being re-elected. Telling them to support something they KNOW will jeopardize their chances of holding onto to their seats is beyond lunacy.

But then, it's Pence we're talking about - so intelligence and common sense don't enter into the picture.

[turbinetree]

3. So the Race Bannon (Jonny Quest/ Mike Pence) Sexual Predator (dumpster), Eddie Munster ( Paul Ryan)

death panel keeps on going, and just trying to HURT Human Beings--------------------F you

You have health care provided by the taxpayers or do you F***ing forget that, every time you get up

[Fritz Walter]

4. Steve Beshear: GOP is playing with life and death on health care

In case you missed it -- because most of the corporate media didn't bother to mention it -- Former Governor Steve Beshear, who delivered the response to the SCROTUS speech last month, likewise rebutted Pansy's comments in Louisville with his own press conference.

...he said Pence and Bevin, who ended the state-run health insurance exchange called kynect, were "ignoring the facts about how successful the ACA has been in Kentucky." Instead, Beshear said, they have entered "the world of alternative facts. In other words, if the facts don’t suit you, just deny them and make up some of your own."

He said the ACA has worked and cited its success in Kentucky, rattling off statistics to make his point.

More than 500,000 Kentuckians gained health coverage. And the state, which has some of the nation's highest rates of death and disease, saw its uninsured population drop from about 20 percent to about 7 percent.

I'm guessing the corporate media didn't mention that Representative John Yarmuth reinforced Gov. Beshear's points by adding,

"This is a reverse Robin Hood proposal," Yarmuth said. "It takes from the poorest people and gives to the richest people and doesn't do anything for health care."

Beshear said the Republican plan would "bring an avalanche of pain and suffering."

Source: The Courier-Journal

[dchill]

5. +1000

[dchill]

6. K&R.

Especially your last paragraph.