The BCRA is getting pulled but the healthcare fight is not over. Senate Majority Leader McConnell wants the Senate to vote on a Find and Replace version of the reconciliation bill that President Obama vetoed in 2016. That bill would repeal every funded element of the ACA on 12/31/19 and cut taxes effective immediately.
My statement on an upcoming vote to repeal #Obamacare pic.twitter.com/RdyDiUJfMD
— Leader McConnell (@SenateMajLdr) July 18, 2017
As a reminder this is the bill that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored as leading to 32 million more people without insurance by the end of 2026 with 18 million not having insurance in the first year. Premiums on the individual market would increase by 50% over baseline by 2026.
The new Senate strategy of #RepealAndDelay will be scored w/ 10 million more in coverage losses than other bills – https://t.co/090lbBeRMQ pic.twitter.com/M13EtWL9k3
— Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) July 18, 2017
Unless McConnell thinks that he can get his vulnerable in 2018 and 2020 members to fall in line with the barely veiled threat of a massive right wing primary challenge, I am having a hard time seeing the logic of bringing up this bill unless it is to show the House a body and move onto something else.
So you know what to do — call your Senator this morning.
rikyrah
Call call call!!
Ps- did you see the link to the Montana Medicaid expansion was “too successful” ? Will you be explaining and commenting on it?
Patricia Kayden
So Republicans are doing exactly what they’ve wanted to do all along which is repeal the ACA with no replacement. Good to see that they’re not even pretending anymore that they care about healthcare for the majority of their fellow Americans. This is who they are.
PsiFighter37
I don’t think they can get the votes for even this to pass. The politics of stripping away health insurance without the facade of even trying to make it better (even though both AHCA and BCRA were turd sandwiches) is even worse, IMO.
TriassicSands
@Patricia Kayden:
McConnell’s actions just keep reinforcing what a horrible person he is. His motivations appear to be wholly negative, driven by a desire to erase the presidency of Barack Obama. If there were even a few decent human beings in the senate GOP, there would be an effort to replace McConnell. Instead, the senate continues to focus on mindlessly hurting millions of Americans including many who voted Republican.
gene108
@Patricia Kayden:
My worry is a majority of GOP voters support them in their quest to fuck over America and destroy President Obama’s legacy, so enough GOP Congresscritters won’t pay a price for it.
FlipYrWhig
@TriassicSands: I virtually guarantee that nobody else on Team R wants the job of Senate Majority Leader. Too much of a headache. _Maybe_ Ted Cruz would do it, out of ambition and a strong sense of personal superiority, but everyone hates him so he won’t be asked.
MattF
McConnell has a kind of negative charisma that lets him escape responsibility. Ugly! Turtle!
MoxieM
Slightly off topic–but then again, meta-wise, not at all. Every time I see the acronym for this horrible “plan”, BCRA, I read it as BRCA–you know the gene marker for breast cancer. Which would be a bankrupting condition under the proposed hideously cruelty of Trump”care”.
Okie-Dokei! Off to my stereotactic breast biopsy (thankfully no genetic issues). Pretty doped up, a good thing I’m told. Cross your paws, jackals.
O. Felix Culpa
@MoxieM: Consider all paws, fingers, toes, and claws crossed! Many warm thoughts your way.
low-tech cyclist
Yep, we’ve won another battle (BCRAP flushed!), but the war continues. I assume they won’t give up on Obamacare repeal as long as they hold the House, Senate, and White House. So we’ll have to change that next year, and stay alert and ready to fight in the meantime.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
The repeal has a two year delay. The idea is to play chicken with healthcare. To force Democrats to make massive concessions before the clock runs out. This is how McConnell operates. He figures it worked with the government shutdown threats, so it will work here. He disgusts me.
chopper
@MoxieM:
paws are crossed. good luck!
Steeplejack (phone)
@MoxieM:
Fingers crossed. Good luck!
Mnemosyne
@MoxieM:
May your biopsy turn out the same way mine did: benign fibrous thingy. Fingers crossed.
Jerzy Russian
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Yes, he is Not A Nice Person.
A week or so ago, I referred to him as “Bitch McConnell”. This was wrong of me, and it has been eating at my conscious ever since. I therefore would like to apologize to all female dogs out there whom I have insulted. There really is on excuse for my behavior, and it will not be repeated (until the next time).