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House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
- maxerickson 10y agoThis vote is important procedurally, but no one knows what the Senate is going to do. It sounds like this bill won't go anywhere in the Senate, but the ability to make changes to Medicaid and Medicare is a rare thing (need both houses and presidency), so there is a lever for the Senate leaders to lean on.
- matthewmcg 10y agoThe Senate has the constitutional authority to make and change its own rules. It is possible that if Senate Democrats filibuster this legislation the Republican majority might eliminate the filibuster by rule change.
- technofiend 10y agoCertainly that's possible but both parties rely on the rule to block poor legislation, or so this article from The Hill claims. https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/senate/331668-gop-senators-dismiss-trump-filibuster-change%3Famp https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/senate/33166...
- mtanski 10y ago> so this article from The Hill claims It seems like we've been trading away from this kind of procedure for the last decade or so.
- r00fus 10y agoIf there's one area where I trust the GOP, it's to use procedural and spoken inconsistency for political gain. Donald Trump in this regard is an exemplar of the Republican party.
- maxxxxx 10y agoSeems the Republicans will achieve their only real goals fairly quickly: large tax cuts for high incomes and getting rid of Obamacare.
- notadoc 10y agoHow, specifically, is this going to improve health care while making insurance cheaper and more widely available? This should be easy to explain, right?
- jachee 10y agoTwo words: It's not.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoIt isn't. The Republicans dislike the ACA for largely different reasons to why most of the American public dislike the ACA.
- dragonwriter 10y agoMost of the American people dislike the ACA (well, "Obamacare"; the ACA has much better support, despite the two being different names for the same thing) for reasons unrelated to it's actual content.
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