McConnell and Trump: Senate Will Now Fully Repeal ObamaCare, Delay Implementation for Two Years (Video)
Rather Than Fix ObamaCare, Republicans Could Kick Millions Off Health Care
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced the U.S. Senate will now vote to repeal ObamaCare and not offer any replacement. Late Monday night after two more Republican Senators announced they could not support the current Senate repeal and “replace” ObamaCare bill, dealing a lethal blow to the bill, McConnell reneged on his announced plan to work with Democrats to help fix ObamaCare. Instead, the new plan will be to repeal in full the Affordable Care Act, and include a delay of two years before it would go into effect.
POTUS first suggested last month that the Senate should repeal #Obamacare first. That’s a turn-around from what he said on @60Minutes. pic.twitter.com/3bo2zOz63Y
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 18, 2017
There is no reason for Americans to believe that Congress would be able to craft a decent ObamaCare alternative over the next two years, as they’ve had seven years to do so and have come up with nothing remotely effective. Should the plan to repeal ObamaCare become law, there very well could be no health care plan at all.
For an industry based on risk, there could be little worse than not knowing what will happen in the future.
This move by the Kentucky Republican is fully supported by President Donald Trump, who ridiculously announced overnight that Democrats would support the move and “join in.”
Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017
Repeal and delay, as some are calling the latest in more than seven years of Republican attempts to kill the Affordable Health Care Act, is guaranteed to skyrocket premiums and force even more insurance companies to leave the health care exchanges. Â
WATCH: @NancyCordes is on Capitol Hill with the next move for Republican leaders. https://t.co/1AaebaQbEQ pic.twitter.com/wihtcUG49d
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 18, 2017
If Congress successfully repeals ObamaCare with no replacement, an additional tens of millions of Americans will lose their health care, putting the nation in even worse straits than it was before ObamaCare was enacted by President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts with the repeal of ObamaCare, and additional 32 million people will be without coverage, and premiums in the individual markets will double. It will also skyrocket the deficit, bloating it by at least an additional $350 billion.
“We’ll see if those members of Congress are willing to make that leap, someday down in the future, can create a replacement “ –@JDickerson pic.twitter.com/aUkFZEaRD7
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 18, 2017
President Donald Trump has largely stayed out of the repeal and replace debate, occasionally weighing in but never holding press conferences or traveling the nation to build support for the GOP plan. In February, he shockingly announced, “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” That statement stunned the nation, as everyone knew health care is extremely complicated.
FLASHBACK. Trump. February 2017. “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” pic.twitter.com/6ZraSdS6hk
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 18, 2017
This latest failure for Republicans is of course a win for the majority of the country, regardless of party, who support ObamaCare. But it is a stark indication that even with a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican in the White House, the GOP is incapable of governing.
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