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Post by avordvet on Jan 26, 2017 13:54:44 GMT -5
Congressional Delay Threatens Obamacare RepealJames Wallner, January 26, 2017 The effort to repeal Obamacare may be headed in the wrong direction. That it could be so was unthinkable just a few short weeks ago when the GOP triumphantly returned to our nation’s capital with majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate and control of the presidency for the first time since the law was enacted back in 2010. Since then, Republicans across the nation have consistently proclaimed their opposition to the law and pledged to repeal it the first chance they got. But with lawmakers huddled in Philadelphia for a three-day retreat to strategize how best to approach the months ahead and the Jan. 27 deadline for a repeal bill to be written slipping by, how exactly the GOP plans to achieve its long-sought goal to reverse Obamacare remains murkier than ever. dailysignal.com/2017/01/26/congressional-delay-threatens-obamacare-repeal/
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Post by avordvet on Feb 8, 2017 20:11:47 GMT -5
F-ing cowards and traitors... From ‘Repeal’ to ‘Repair’: Campaign Talk on Health Law Meets RealityBy MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ROBERT PEARFEB. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — Asked at a confirmation hearing two weeks ago if he was working with President Trump on a secret plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, Representative Tom Price, Mr. Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, smiled broadly and answered: “It’s true that he said that, yes.” The committee room, filled with health care lobbyists, consumer advocates and others with a vital stake in the future of the health care law, erupted with knowing laughter at Mr. Price’s careful formulation. For those following the issue closely, it has been an open secret that the fledgling Trump administration is a long way from fulfilling one of Mr. Trump’s most repeated campaign promises. In a brief aside in an interview with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News broadcast before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Mr. Trump went further than he ever has in acknowledging the reality that any hope of quickly replacing the Affordable Care Act has been dashed. “Yes, I would like to say by the end of the year, at least the rudiments, but we should have something within the year and the following year,” the president said. www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/obamacare-tom-price-trump.html?_r=1
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