Friday, March 24, 2017

Ultimatum from T-Rump on Health Care




My God! How can we Make America Great Again if Planned Parenthood is allowed to stand?
Abandoning negotiations, President Donald Trump has demanded a make-or-break vote on healthcare legislation in the US House of Representatives, threatening to leave "Obamacare" in place and move on to other issues if Friday's vote fails.

The move was presented to divided Republican politicians behind closed doors on Thursday night.

At the end of it the president had had enough and was ready to vote and move on, whatever the result, Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney told politicians.

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The Republican bill would halt Obama's tax penalties against people who do not buy coverage and cut the federal-state Medicaid programme for low earners, which the Obama statute had expanded.

It would provide tax credits to help people pay medical bills, though generally less than Obama's statute provides.

It also would allow insurers to charge older Americans more and repeal tax boosts the law imposed on high-income people and health industry companies.

The measure would also block federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year, another stumbling block for Republican moderates.

  alJazeera
ADHD, plus, it's making him look bad daily in the news if he can't get Trumpcare passed.
Conservative Republicans oppose the new legislation because it scraps Obamacare, but puts another government plan in its place. They believe healthcare should be left to the free market.

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Conservative Republicans oppose the new legislation because it scraps Obamacare, but puts another government plan in its place. They believe healthcare should be left to the free market.

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"No deal," Mark Meadows, chairman of the Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative members of the House, said.

Meadows and his group of more than two dozen Republicans met Trump on Thursday to try to get more concessions to reduce requirements on insurance companies.

  alJazeera
Seriously? They oppose it because it's not cruel enough?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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