Health Care Vote on 'Skinny Repeal' Bill - Open Thread

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

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commented 2017-07-30 13:06:00 -0400 · Flag

I honestly don’t think Barack Obama is laughing about this. The petty action about to be undertaken by the Pence White House will cause major problems for millions of people and destroy the ACA in one shot. President Obama wanted the GOP to work with the Dems in creating and then fixing and maintaining the ACA. This action will simply end it – and he knows they are doing this as a direct attack on him. I again urge people to not think that this situation is somehow a settled matter.

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.

commented 2017-07-28 23:43:58 -0400 · Flag

Somewhere, at different geographic locations in America — and for different reasons — Barack Obama and John Boehner are laughing their asses off . . .

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commented 2017-07-28 11:15:29 -0400 · Flag

I read this comment on Media Matters that I thought was funny…John McCain prefers Presidents who weren’t captured by Putin.

commented 2017-07-28 10:49:59 -0400 · Flag

The GOPiggy war on affordable health care will continue. The Orange Orangutan will stop funding and administering the ACA.

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.

commented 2017-07-28 06:21:24 -0400 · Flag

Jan Hall said:

“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!]

commented 2017-07-28 04:55:39 -0400 · Flag

Chris Hayes totally nails it in that tweet.

commented 2017-07-28 03:43:06 -0400 · Flag

I’d advise against breaking out the champagne just yet. The Pence White House is bent on ending the ACA one way or another, and there is still plenty of time for the Senate to pick up this matter in the fall, or at a time when people least expect it.

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.

commented 2017-07-28 01:49:24 -0400 · Flag

Anthony MuchoScary just tweeted F**********!!!!!!!!!!!

commented 2017-07-28 01:43:10 -0400 · Flag

IT’S OFFICIAL!!!!

commented 2017-07-28 01:42:21 -0400 · Flag

Anorexic Repeal next?

commented 2017-07-28 01:36:53 -0400 · Flag

Is President Tweety Bird awake?

commented 2017-07-28 01:34:44 -0400 · Flag

No’s by a Nose

commented 2017-07-28 01:32:38 -0400 · Flag

No scoreboard!

commented 2017-07-28 01:32:04 -0400 · Flag

McCain voted NO!!!!

commented 2017-07-28 01:27:57 -0400 · Flag

No scoreboard?

commented 2017-07-28 01:17:41 -0400 · Flag

A glimmer of hope from Jonathan Martin of the NY Times, in case you didn’t see the last embedded Tweet:

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!

commented 2017-07-28 01:16:23 -0400 · Flag

Hope you can afford to be sick Ellen.

commented 2017-07-28 01:12:34 -0400 · Flag

This is making me sick!

commented 2017-07-28 00:47:16 -0400 · Flag

Real lively bunch aren’t they?

commented 2017-07-28 00:38:32 -0400 · Flag

A long day for the Senate. Of course at only 133 work days a year they should be able to handle it.