Republicans are about to vote to take away health insurance from 16 million Americans and increase premiums in the insurance exchanges by 20%, as per the CBO.
I am beside myself with fury and determination to vote every single one of these Republican murderers (and I do not use that term lightly) out of office.
I will be embedding Tweets as updates and as relevant.
Republican leaders are still pushing this vote even when Republicans admit it would throw markets into turmoil & kick millions off of care.
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) July 28, 2017
Sen. Enzi (R-WY) not talking about the HCFA, defending the GOP bill on the floor right now. He’s essentially just running out the clock.
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) July 28, 2017
CBO: 16 MILLION UNINSURED pic.twitter.com/C6um5YuymW
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) July 28, 2017
Flood the phones, stuff the inboxes & #ResistRepeal. We can’t let the #GOP rip #healthcare away from anyone, much less 16 million Americans.
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) July 28, 2017
I found the page where this scheme provides "insurance for everybody" and ensures "no one will be worse off financially." pic.twitter.com/bT17UlJrR8
— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) July 28, 2017
Insurance companies oppose skinny repeal. Says it will raise premiums and destabilize market --> exactly what Rs claim to be "fixing." pic.twitter.com/gfuZcmcFqB
— Chad Bolt (@chadderr) July 27, 2017
While Enzi refuses to allow Senators to ask questions so we can learn more about the bill, you can read this: https://t.co/GEIiBNavtP
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) July 28, 2017
To my GOP colleagues, after I was diagnosed with cancer, you showed me your care. You showed me your compassion. So where is that tonight? pic.twitter.com/BfWMIDd0Vo
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) July 28, 2017
I am *not* saying they won't *get* the votes, but if they *had* the votes right now, they'd be voting.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 28, 2017
this would be SUCH a good moment to drop the pee tape
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) July 28, 2017
NEWS: Two Ariz Republicans w direct knowledge tell me they now anticipate McCain WILL vote "no" on skinny.
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) July 28, 2017
3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017
In a civilized situation, we’d have the Dems and GOP congresspeople sitting down and working out their differences and coming up with a compromise that could work for everyone. We’re not in that situation. The GOP does not negotiate with anyone but their Far Right Wing. Trump will apparently be announcing his action this week. It will be one of two options, from what I can see. The less likely option will be for him to announce he’s only approving the funding of the exchanges for a single further month and then that’s it, presumably to motivate the Senate to come back and pass a repeal bill of some form so it can go to conference with the House and then morph into as close to a full repeal as possible. The more likely option, given that Congress is leaving for their latest recess, is that he’ll simply defund the exchanges immediately and declare his victory. The ACA will continue to exist, but as an unfunded program that is ignored from this point forward.
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If McCain retires for health reasons, the GOPiggies will be back at it once again. This won’t be over until Democrats control the House or the Senate.
“Is President Tweety Bird awake?”
“OOOOOOOH, I TAWT I TAW A DEAD WEPEAL —
I DID!! I DID!! I DID TEE A DEAD WEPEAL!!!"
;^)
[I just HAD to get that in!]
And barring even that, Pence has already made clear that if there are no other paths available, he’ll have Trump just stop funding the exchanges, which will quickly kill the matter in any case.
These guys have made no indication that they wish to actually work with anyone – they simply want to destroy everything that happened during President Obama’s time in office. I would be surprised to see Donald Trump suddenly tweeting about working with Democrats, or to see McConnell suddenly trying to actually put something together with Schumer. The more likely approach is that Trump will throw a tantrum on Twitter (he’s already started) and make sure that the ACA completely collapses while he gloats about the chaos.
NEWS: Two Ariz Republicans w direct knowledge tell me they now anticipate McCain WILL vote “no” on skinny.
11:13 PM – Jul 27, 2017
PLEASE GOD!