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Senate’s budget rules invalidate key provisions in Republican health care bill

What would have happened if they had voted before July 4th per the original plan, and the parliamentarian came back and told them they needed 60 votes for most of the bill?

Also worth watching:

The other possibility is known as the nuclear option. The parliamentarian technically offers only guidance on which policies comply with the Byrd Rule and which ones do not; the chair — which in this case could be Vice President Mike Pence — makes the final ruling.

But for decades, the parliamentarian’s judgment has been final. Some senators, particularly the most conservative members, have pushed for Republicans to sidestep the parliamentarian if she nixes key parts of their plan. But senior Republicans have balked, fearing the precedent it would set for the reconciliation process.
 
this dickhead is now just going to defund aspects the ACA into failure. https://www.usnews.com/news/busines...pulls-health-law-help-in-18-cities?src=usn_fb

So much dignity he is bestowing upon the working class of America. jhmd must be chubbing

"CSRA's current $12.8 million contract expires Aug. 29. Cognosante's $9.6 million contract expires the same date.

Together, they assisted 14,500 enrollments, far less than 1 percent of the 9.2 million people who signed up through HealthCare.gov, the insurance marketplace serving most states."

So you think this was a good use of 22.4 million dollars, and those groups were doing a good job? 14,500 enrollments is comically bad. I would hope that Hillary would have shut them down as well.
 
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/19...the-only-real-answer-says-medicare-architect/
"Many health care activists are now pushing to adopt what is called a “single payer” health care system, where one public health insurance program would cover everyone. The U.S. currently has one federal program like that: Medicare. Expanding it polls very well.

One of the activists pushing for such an expansion is Max Fine, someone who is intimately familiar with the program — because he helped create it. Fine is the last surviving member of President Kennedy’s Medicare Task Force, and he was also President Johnson’s designated debunker against the health insurance industry.

Fine, now 91, wrote to The Intercept recently to explain that Medicare was never intended to cover only the elderly population, and that expanding it to everyone was a goal that its architects long campaigned for.

“Three years after the enactment of Medicare, in Dec. 1968, a Committee of 100 leading Americans was formed to campaign for single payer National Heath Insurance.  The campaign leaders were UAW pres. Walter Reuther, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Nat. Urban League Pres Whitney Young and Mary Lasker, a leader in the formation and funding of NIH,” he wrote.”The NY Times and other newspapers gave front page play to the announcement of the campaign for ‘Medicare for All’ but the Committee gained even more attention when, shortly before xmas, pres-elect Nixon, emerging from his doctor’s office in San Diego, denounced us as socialists who were trying to create a problem when none existed.”"
 
So..... are they still planning to vote on something tomorrow?
 
Because apparently freedom from expert non-partisan analysis is one of the goals of the house freedom caucus #dadjoke

 
Well even though they don't believe in science they know that if they throw in a few partisan think-tanks, clearly ignore standard deviation, they can change CBO scores dramatically.
 

This is where the 'pubs say "See? I told you the government should have no role in healthcare. Look how easily we can break it through incompetence and/or assholery!"
 
 
"CSRA's current $12.8 million contract expires Aug. 29. Cognosante's $9.6 million contract expires the same date.

Together, they assisted 14,500 enrollments, far less than 1 percent of the 9.2 million people who signed up through HealthCare.gov, the insurance marketplace serving most states."

So you think this was a good use of 22.4 million dollars, and those groups were doing a good job? 14,500 enrollments is comically bad. I would hope that Hillary would have shut them down as well.

Running the math out on that, that would be $1500 per enrollment.
 
 
 
They don't even know which of the four versions of the bill they are actually voting on.

Maybe he's coming back to make sure he gets to vote no on the record.
 
 
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