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stinger
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Re: Trumpcare dead for now
Posted by StaceyLu
They voted to debate it. I think they thought if they voted yes, they'd tricked POTUS into thinking they repealed and replaced and get to go on their vacations after all.
Lol. I didn't quite get the update of what happened today
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Posted 7/25/17 9:17 PM  |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Trumpcare dead for now
They voted to go ahead with maybe choosing one of the existing plans, add tons of amendments to one of the plans, or do something else. Nobody seems to know.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/senate-health-care-vote/index.html?sr=fbCNN072617senate-health-care-vote0302PMVODtop
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Senators late Tuesday cast their first vote on what could be dozens of amendments considered to it.
This first vote dealt with a measure that combined a previous Senate proposal known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act -- that was rejected by several Republican senators -- with $100 billion in extra money for people on Medicaid desired by moderate Republicans and a proposal from conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to allow bare-bones health insurance plans.
Democrats moved successfully to kill the amendment, which was possible because it had not been officially scored by the Congressional Budget Office and therefore didn't meet the complicated reconciliation rules that the Senate is using to consider the bill.
Republicans needed 60 votes to keep the amendment alive. It died on a 43 to 57 vote.
The vote came after a Senate clerk was forced to read the text of the amendment aloud in the Senate chamber, all part of the delaying tactics Democrats employing to express their overall unhappiness with the bill.
On Wednesday, senators are expected to cast a vote on a "repeal-only" proposal. It too is expected to be defeated because many Republicans as well as all Democrats reject repealing without a replacement ready.
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However, it looks like nobody can agree on what they actually want, so hopefully none of the "plans" with or without the huge amendments (one amendment was 178 pages...) will pass.
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