Obamacare Replacement Bill is Dead

Lee Rogers
Daily Stormer
July 18, 2017

This was a failure of epic proportions but at least Mitch has got a plan B.

It looks like the Obamacare replacement bill is dead. More Republican Senators have bailed on it so it doesn’t look like they have the votes.

This whole situation is almost as dumb as the Russian kookspiracy fiasco.

AP:

The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare” was fatally wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.

The announcements from Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party’s long-promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation reeling. Next steps, if any, were not immediately clear.

Lee and Moran both said they could not support Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legislation in its current form. They joined GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, both of whom announced their opposition right after McConnell released the bill last Thursday.

McConnell is now at least two votes short in the closely divided Senate and may have to go back to the drawing board or even begin to negotiate with Democrats, a prospect he’s threatened but resisted so far.

McConnell’s bill “fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act or address healthcare’s rising costs. For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one,” said Moran.

It now looks as if the Senate is going in a different direction. They’re apparently going to vote on a delayed repeal of Obamacare.

CNBC:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night called for a vote on a bill to repeal Obamacare without an immediate replacement after the latest Republican effort to overhaul the U.S. health-care system failed.

“Regretfully, it’s now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,” McConnell said in a statement. “So, in the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period to a patient-centered health care system that gives Americans access to quality, affordable care.”

A straight repeal is what they should have done from the beginning. While the healthcare system wasn’t perfect before Obamacare, it wasn’t in terrible shape. It was still a functioning system. Obamacare is what blew everything up. Going back to what we had before Obamacare would be an improvement in and of itself. It would have also put political points on the board for the base.

What gets me is how politically stupid the Republican Congress is. They just wasted seven months on this crap after spending the entire decade promising to get rid of Obamacare. All they did was piss off their base with their bumbling and incompetence.

Donald Trump posted a tweet on the development.

Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

If there’s any silver lining to this, it’s that the Obamacare replacement bill wasn’t even popular. Who knows, maybe this idiocy will be a blessing in disguise. We’ll have to see how it plays out over the next few days.

Either way, it’s a very stupid situation. All the Republicans did was make themselves look like idiots. It has also delayed Trump’s entire agenda.

Can anybody remember when the Republican party last won a major legislative victory? It seems like they’re always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The Republicans could have a 99 to 1 majority in the Senate and they’d probably still find a way to mess things up!