FOILED AGAIN! House GOP Pulls Health Care Bill Before Sure Defeat

[DonViejo]

By TIERNEY SNEED Published MARCH 24, 2017, 3:35 PM EDT

GOP congressional leadership pulled from the floor Friday its Obamacare repeal bill after facing resistance from both the party’s conservative and moderate wings.

President Trump told Washington Post reporter Robert Costa over the phone that the bill was being pulled.

A day earlier the vote had been delayed in the hopes that one last round of negotiations could cement the report. But even after the White House delivered a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum Thursday night and a major last-minute change was added to assuage the far-right hardliners, Republicans were by Friday morning at best unsure the bill, the American Health Care Act, would pass.

The cancellation of the vote is an acutely embarrassing setback for Republicans, who for seven years made the repeal of the Affordable Care Act central to their campaigns and took dozens of symbolic anti-Obamacare votes but never coalesced around a singular, viable alternative plan. The absence of agreement among Republicans over how Obamacare should be replaced – or even on the basic questions of health care policy – grew even more evident after President Trump’s election, when repeal became possible.

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[wryter2000]

1. How long is this going to go on?

We need this thing dead

[HopeAgain]

2. He does not take losing well...

The tweets should be interesting.

[ginnyinWI]

3. no matter how they spin this--

They are LOSERS.

[DK504]

4. While looking for Congressional costs for healthcare I found out a lot.

One of them being is : Starting in 2014, the only health care coverage made available to members of Congress and their employees by the federal government will be coverage offered through the Health Insurance Exchange created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - the "Obamacare Act."

Makes me think this is why they want to get rid of it and why they are so angry. I think they paid less before 2014. Looking for other stuff. but I have no idea how to link this stuff.