Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑Ky) has introduced a bill to compromise between the House’s recent Affordable Health Care Act and the current “ObamaCare” Affordable Care Act. Though there seems to be some “what the heck, go with it” enthusiasm for it on Capitol Hill, it’s not coming from Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Mike Lee of Utah.
‘‘Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill,” their joint statement from yesterday reads.
Their objections? Well, they agree that there are “provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current healthcare system but…”
— and this is a big but —
“it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans: to repeal Obamacare and lower their healthcare costs.’’ Their opposition, the Boston Globe tells us, puts the TrumpCare wannabe in jeopardy.
Dr. Rand Paul is the key figure in the opposition. One of Capitol Hill’s ongoing amusements has been to watch the junior Kentucky senator repeatedly pit himself against his state’s senior member — who, the Globe tells us, now threatens “to bring the bill to a vote next week even if he doesn’t have the necessary votes.”
Pressure tactics.
Which you need to put an obviously bad bill through Congress.
Too many mainstream Republican congressmen lack the courage of their constituents’ convictions. They apparently do not really believe that a freed-up health care system and insurance market can work to the general good.
At least, not in time for the next election.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
6 replies on “The Real ObamaCare Opposition”
I truly wish that I understood more about this. I also wish it was possible to see more of the legislation. It is “common sense” to realize that first of all the original legislation was totally unconstitutional. But now we have this bull in the China shop and we are stuck with at least a facsimile of it. I regret that there is probably no way now to rid ourselves of it. Looks like a bad billl is better than a terrible bill. Ridding ourselves of the taxes looks as if that may be the best part.… Sure would like to hear those more informed chime in.
I truly wish that I understood more about this. I also wish it was possible to see more of the legislation. It is “common sense” to realize that first of all the original legislation was totally unconstitutional. But now we have this bull in the China shop and we are stuck with at least a facsimile of it. I regret that there is probably no way now to rid ourselves of it. Looks like a bad bill is better than a terrible bill. Ridding ourselves of the taxes looks as if that may be the best part.… Sure would like to hear those more informed chime in.
Pragmatism destroys principle. Every one of the Republican senators who is supporting this“pragmatic” bill has previously voted, if they were in the Senate during the last Administration, to abolish and repeal in its entirity the ACA. Paul, Cruz, Lee and Johnson are the principled ones, who seek to treat the medical services sector with the economic miriacle durg of the free market.
G‑O-bamanation
These people are just showing who they really are and whose side they are on. Guess what – it’s not ours.
These people are just showing who they really are and whose side they are on. Guess what – it’s not ours Absolutely not!.