Senator introduces ACA repeal resolution

Now let’s get serious for a moment, as we consider what repeal will actually bring-and what Republicans will be wrestling with.

Speaking to reporters, Hoyer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said they would launch an effort to mobilize grassroots support for Obamacare by explaining how repeal would create a ripple effect hurting a majority of Americans.

The concurrent resolution also establishes a “reserve fund for health care legislation”, which is meant to pocket any savings from repeal for subsequent replacement legislation, as well as a “deficit neutral reserve fund” to revise allocations within the budget resolution and adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger in the Senate to ensure that repeal legislation does not violate budget requirements.

It’s entirely possible Conway simply chose different, softer-sounding words than GOP leaders, including the president-elect, typically do. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, that proposal would have increased the number of people without health insurance by roughly 22 million. The uninsured rate for non-elderly Americans fell from about 16.6 percent in 2013 to 10 percent in the first quarter of 2016, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Trump’s pledge to cover everybody is not new, after all.

I seriously doubt they’re going to find three Republicans who favor keeping ObamaCare in place in total.

“It happens to be one of the strongest assets”, Trump said about the pre-existing conditions provision in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” shortly after winning the election.

“People must remember that ObamaCare just doesn’t work, and it is not affordable”, Trump said in a tweet Tuesday morning.

“I can see how it would be hard for Republicans to maintain the individual mandate, which is possibly the most objectionable part of the ACA in their view”, says Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The bill, if signed into law, would have blocked funding for Planned Parenthood, eliminated Medicaid coverage for the poverty-stricken, eliminated tax penalties for those without insurance and more. That includes people in the 32 states that expanded Medicaid to low-income residents. Just wait until we hear about people dying-and make no mistake, people will die-when they can no longer access health care.

Republican lawmakers called the budget resolution the Obamacare “repeal resolution” to emphasize its goal of repealing the law. “Floridians understand the importance and value of having health insurance, and they are taking action to obtain coverage”. And Trump might be content to go along.

Still, Trump’s team does not have a complete health care reform plan ready to go, she said, pointing to the need for a confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary to complete such work. This shift-which, if Speaker Ryan is being honest, he probably didn’t expect-is a major reason that the “repeal and replace” rallying cry has been quietly phased out in favor of a “repeal and delay” approach that would roll back the law, but not for a few years.