Rattled by CBO report, moderate Republicans turn against GOP bill

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

A devastating analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare has rattled moderates Republicans in the House, who are uneasy about the prospects of voting for a proposal that increasingly appears dead on arrival in the Senate.
Trump's plan to dismember government

Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said publicly Tuesday that she wouldn't be able to support the GOP health care legislation after the CBO score revealed the high number of people who would lose insurance.

"I plan to vote NO on the current #AHCA bill. As written the plan leaves too many from my #SoFla district uninsured," the Florida congresswoman wrote in two consecutive tweets. "As #AHCA stands, it will cut much needed help for #SoFla's poor + elderly populations. Need a plan that will do more to protect them."

Republican Rep. Leonard Lance, a moderate from New Jersey who Democrats believe will be vulnerable in 2018, told CNN that he believes the House bill will fail in the Senate. As he eyes his own reelection campaign next year, Lance said he doesn't want to support a legislation that would be rejected by his Republican colleagues across the Capitol.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/moderate-republicans-health-care/index.html

[wcmagumba]

1. Say they can't support the death bill but,

all of these punk asses will still vote for it...as always.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The bill CBO scored is the Ryan bill, the bill most talk about is HR1275, not Ryan bill

so I am even more confused

is a bait and switch going on here?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. These losers need to get with the Trump program

Ignore science, math, accountants, CBO

Those are fake news tricks

[geek tragedy]

4. Trump lead them right into a box canyon, only way out is the way they came in nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. What a bad example that British National Health Service

has given, with its wretched Death Panels !

Who would have thought the Republicans, the very people who warned you about the genocidal NHS Death Panels decimating the British public - a fine piece of investgaive journalism, there - would set up a Death Panel in your own wonderful, 'free at source' national/federal health service. Or that the British NHS should exert such a baneful influence.... !

[Demsrule86]

12. There are no British Death Panels...

My husband 75 year old uncle received extensive heart surgery. That has always been bullshit...those in Europe in my family feel sorry for Americans who pay so much and have nothing.

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. I was speaking ironically. The 'death panel'

nonsense was beyond laughable.

The Republicans who conjured it up in their diseased fantasies were, in effect, saying that, if the most expensive treatments for rare conditions might not always be available, as was stated, presumably by the Health Minister, then the whole free, NHS was less than worthless - by association, even, a place of execution for all who used it !

Never mind that, for example, I, Joe Bloggs, had a free, cardiac triple-bypass operation and now, as a retiree in Scotland, have all my six different tablets prescribed free. I'd have been dead long ago in the US. I bet any heart op is very expensive, and way beyond anything I could have afforded at any time in my life. I'd still be paying for it. If I could have afforded the other medical expenses I would have incurred, some ancillary, such as statins.

The doctors won't prescribe cough mixtures, however, so, it was like saying, 'Well, see, they don't prescribe cough mixture - all they get free is the serious stuff !' Though of course with the rare major conditions that might not be available free on the NHS, the indicatoin was that there was ultimately a limit on the NHS budget, so such rare and expensive treatments might not be on offer.

I don't know if it that became the policy, but there is no reason why it should other than the Tories' determinatioon to privatise the NHS by inches. Although it probably is policy now. I did notice that succesive Governments tended to appoint characters with a certain incurable personality disorder, as Health Minister. They don't want what they would describe as 'bleeding hearts' in that position. Go figure, as you say.

[Demsrule86]

15. Sorry...some folks actually believe that...I have family in Europe.

[riversedge]

6. #ryanCare is 'death rattle'. yes it is.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Give them time.

The bullshit double talk on cable news is starting to find its sea legs and shape up in to a nice shit sandwich.

Bullshit artist: Choice derp freedom derp free markets derp

Cable news talking head:

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. Well, that's what the good doctor, Hunter S Thomson reckoned, didn't he ?

Some people 'live high on the hog' and other people just eat sh*t and die. Not a Christian scenario.

[old guy]

8. I plan to vote no on the current bill,

until the use a different type font is what she really means.

[old guy]

9. What she really means is

she will vote no until they change the font type. Then she is all in!

[hibbing]

10. There are still "moderate" Republicans? n/t

[The Sand Reckoner]

11. Sorry, but there are no "moderate" Republicans in the House

Only those more worried about losing their seats.