McConnell Faces Biggest Test in Pushing Obamacare Repeal

The 217 House GOP representatives who voted to pass the American Healthcare Act have branded themselves as, inhumane, in the annals of American history.

He might not care that this bill will hurt Western New Yorkers, but it’s up to the rest of us to make sure he knows that we do.

After criticizing Democrats for the manner in which the ACA passed, my House Republican colleagues held no hearings on the bill, wrote it in the dead of night, blocked amendments on the House floor and waived critical House rules protecting the rights of the minority in order to jam it through.

“We are going to protect those with pre-existing conditions, but we will do it by lowering premiums, and not by giving crumby coverage, but rather by having adequate coverage”, Cassidy said. Mostly the “losers” of the act are lower-income people, older people, people with pre-existing health conditions, Planned Parenthood, hospitals and state governments.

Capito is a key player in the health care decision, and West Virginia relies heavily on Medicaid.

For more details of the Republican’s TrumpCare plan please go online and read all about it. Get your facts from the organizations I mentioned and not from “Republican fake news commercials”. “Democrats and Republicans should come together to improve the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it”.

My understanding is that even many of those who voted for the bill aren’t entirely happy with it. It means we could go back to the days when children couldn’t get the comprehensive care they needed to be healthy and active learners, when pregnant women couldn’t afford maternity care and when the 20-50 percent of non-elderly adults with a chronic condition were lucky to find coverage at all.

Moore said the projections don’t apply to employer-provided plans, which is where most people get their health coverage.

“A lot of them have addiction issues and drug abuse issues”, she said. Medicaid expansion under Obamacare has provided insurance coverage to more than a quarter-million Maryland residents. According to GOP aides, at Tuesday’s Medicaid meeting, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Republican Sens. Most Texans with pre-existing conditions and no access to job-based coverage weren’t as fortunate. In 2020, the reimbursement rate for Medicaid expansion would drop to the same rate as for pre-expansion enrollees. In a phone call with reporters this week, Sen. Is someone you love in a nursing home? The bill isn’t ideal, but I worked hard to make it as conservative as possible. No, not really, as The Hill explains in a piece on the two-senator Medicaid working group, composed of Rob Portman of OH and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, that Mitch McConnell set up to reach consensus. It has been criticized for no women members, though Capito met with the group this week.

One House Republican said in 2012, “Today America is threatened with a Stage 3 cancer of socialism, and Obama is Exhibit 1″.

A week ago, the House narrowly approved a bill that would cut the Medicaid program for low-income people, eliminate the fines for people who don’t buy insurance, cut taxes for wealthy Americans and provide generally skimpier subsidies for many who need help to buy insurance. And our promise to you is that we will always strive to provide indispensable journalism to our community.