Don't worry guys.
Trickle will come down to you any day now and you'll have no problem paying for your healthcare.
Attack the CBO because the CBO didn't predict what colossal assholes the GOP would be about ACA implementation.
It annoys me to no end that reporters never bring that up in the briefings.
Is it safe to assume that Trump supporters are totally okay with this and even celebrating another great victory that will stick it to immigrants and minorities?
Pushback begins now:
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/867493813253799936
When in reality they're really sticking it to themselves.
MAGA right?
Stereotypical Trump voters actually get hit the hardest by this, I believe.Is it safe to assume that Trump supporters are totally okay with this and even celebrating another great victory that will stick it to immigrants and minorities?
Nah. You're actually being far too generous. It works out to ~$500 per person per year. It could be ~5x that if they scrapped the tax cuts for the wealthy, but that would defeat the entire purpose of the bill.12 billion a year in savings leaves 20 million uninsured? Fucking Christ, lol.
Hmm Chuck Todd lied to me then.Yeah they do, it doesn't pass reconciliation rules.
To be fair, they got raked over the coals immediately for that headline and followed it up with a more accurate one:
THIS is why we don't get comfortable.
This is the headline I'll expect to see from irresponsible media outlets.
It happened with the last AHCA revision that the House ended up passing. You release a big turd, the media pans it. You follow up with a slightly smaller turd, and the media focuses on the "improvement."
Good that people didn't let me hem slide with that, but the point is that we shouldn't have to baby them like that in the first place. How desperate the media is to give the administration any type of win and hold them to the lowest possible standards is just sad. It's good that they adjusted it, but a headline like that shouldn't have happened in the first place.To be fair, they got raked over the coals immediately for that headline and followed it up with a more accurate one:
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/867497427393290240
"CBO: House Obamacare repeal will increase uninsured by 23 million"
They are going to die on this hill:
https://mobile.twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/867492894948696064
THIS is why we don't get comfortable.
This is the headline I'll expect to see from irresponsible media outlets.
It happened with the last AHCA revision that the House ended up passing. You release a big turd, the media pans it. You follow up with a slightly smaller turd, and the media focuses on the "improvement."
THIS is why we don't get comfortable.
This is the headline I'll expect to see from irresponsible media outlets.
It happened with the last AHCA revision that the House ended up passing. You release a big turd, the media pans it. You follow up with a slightly smaller turd, and the media focuses on the "improvement."
They are going to die on this hill:
https://mobile.twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/867492894948696064
Their angle is a bit weird to explain. In a nutshell hardcore conservatives don't believe the government should have anything to do with healthcare. It shouldn't be regulated, and we shouldn't pay out shit. They don't believe it. Now, that philosophy isn't terribly popular, so they don't go out and campaign on that. They go out and campaign that Obamacare sucked and should be repealed. They then blamed what was a blunted premiums rising on Obamacare and people still want better healthcare. They promised they could do better by repealing it.
The problem is that Republicans overpromised. Obamacare basically is the conservative answer to the fact that people were dying without healthcare and being denied due to pre-existing conditions. They took a hard line against it because if they didn't then Obama would be hailed as a savior of healthcare. Now they're stuck between a rock and a hard place because any changes for the better will be much more liberal and any changes for the worse will literally kill people.
Today is wild.
Everyone here is acting like this is DOA, but I'm not so sure it won't pass or at least something close to it.
They are going to die on this hill:
https://mobile.twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/867492894948696064
YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER
People shouldn't be mandated to pay for health care; savings made by not spending public money on health care will allow for tax cuts that spur growth; a growing economy will allow everyone to pay for health care if they choose they to.As a dirty foreigner, what is their angle on this one? That wealthy deserve better because they made it? Fuck poor people?
Pretty sure this would not have passed the House if the score came out before the vote. Laughable. Paul Ryan, ladies and gentlemen.
And all those House members are in that giant photo op with Trump at the WH. Expect to see that a lot in ads leading up to next November.
And they're barely even trying to hide it at all, since the vast majority of the savings from it are immediately going into tax cuts for themselves. Literal cartoon villains.Bill de Blasio @NYCMayor
Why are Republican leaders trying to take away health care from New Yorkers? Simple: they want to line the pockets of the wealthy.
Unless I'm mistaken that's him coming out AGAINST the AHCA. He's saying waiting for this manufactured collapse of Obamacare is looking like the way to go since their replacement plans are all abject failures.
It might. Right now it's not revenue neutral, so it can't pass with a simple majority budget resolution vote. But it wouldn't take a lot of tweaks to get it there. If the Senate manages to adjust it enough to clear, I'd expect the House to pass the revised bill without appreciable debate.Surely this isnt passing right?
Win for the GOP. The number going around prior to this report was 24 million, not 23.
(rolls eyes)
Surely this isnt passing right?
That tweet has been deleted.
This is what passed the House. They rushed it through so they could vote before they knew the effects.
It's DOA in the Senate. They're working on another version.
This is what passed the House. They rushed it through so they could vote before they knew the effects.
It's DOA in the Senate. They're working on another version.
They are actively sabotaging the ACA so I don't see how it's any better.
It might. Right now it's not revenue neutral, so it can't pass with a simple majority budget resolution vote. But it wouldn't take a lot of tweaks to get it there. If the Senate manages to adjust it enough to clear, I'd expect the House to pass the revised bill without appreciable debate.
McConnell claims he doesn't even have 50 votes right now.They can pass this through reconciliation. They only need 50 votes in the Senate.