House passed a repeal and replace plan but the Senate still has to pass it.
Second AHCA vote underway: Update - Vote Done; Exemption denied; ACHA passed in the House 217 - 213
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House passed a repeal and replace plan but the Senate still has to pass it.
LHilla
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Senate won't vote on House-passed healthcare bill
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A Senate proposal is now being developed by a 12-member working group. It will attempt to incorporate elements of the House bill, senators said, but will not take up the House bill as a starting point and change it through the amendment process.
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"It was kind of a moot issue if the House wasn't going to be able to pass a bill and now they have and I'm proud of them for doing it," Cornyn said. "Now it's up to us to pass a bill 51 senators can agree to."
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A Senate proposal is now being developed by a 12-member working group. It will attempt to incorporate elements of the House bill, senators said, but will not take up the House bill as a starting point and change it through the amendment process.
From the end of the article:
"It was kind of a moot issue if the House wasn't going to be able to pass a bill and now they have and I'm proud of them for doing it," Cornyn said. "Now it's up to us to pass a bill 51 senators can agree to."
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CourtesyFlush
Superstar
Thanks breh. Do u think the senate will pass it?
"It’s not just that the bill must pass the Senate, but that senators are already sayingthey will want to make significant changes to the current legislation. Then, that revised bill (or whatever legislation the two chambers agree on in the “conference” process by which the two chambers resolve different versions of bills) must be approved by both bodies. In short, Thursday’s vote was almost certainly not the last Obamacare repeal vote even in the House.
Will the Senate pass something that the House can accept on a second go-round? Maybe. What the House process showed is that key constituencies in the Republican Party don’t want to be blamed for blocking one of the party’s big, long-standing goals: repealing or dramatically overhauling the Affordable Care Act. Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, in particular, chafed at being criticized after the failure of the initial push for the AHCA in late March. President Trump refused to abandon the Obamacare repeal effort, even after other Republicans suggested that the party should move on. New Jersey’s Tom MacArthur, a member of the more moderate Tuesday Group, which was another source of opposition to the initial bill, was one of the key architects of an amendment that helped the bill finally pass. And Michigan’s Fred Upton, another Tuesday Group member, wrote another amendment that appealed to more moderate members of the House.
The GOP-controlled Senate — and each individual senator — will have similar incentives to make changes to the bill but still keep it moving toward Trump’s desk. Some senators both on the left of the Republican Senate conference (Maine’s Susan Collins) and the right (Texas’ Ted Cruz) criticized the AHCA in March. Now, though, it’s their turn, and they could be directly blamed if they are seen as standing between Trump and a law repealing Obamacare. The Republicans need at least 50 of the 52 GOP senators to back this bill, since it is going through the reconciliation process. With 50, Vice President Pence could cast the winning vote."
MalikX
Superstar
You mean like how Trump was going to NEVER get elected?
Honestly, I have no idea. The deal for the law was just struck last night so I don't even really know what's in it.
MalikX
Superstar
At work watching the tv like 
all these Middle Aged Cacs in here trying to pretend like they didn't vote for this guy 
all these Middle Aged Cacs in here trying to pretend like they didn't vote for this guy Passing a similar-but-different bill and then going to conference is common.
People that vote for the GOP would rather be poor and dying in a white country above anything else. They don't think things through.Why is there so much anger being thrown at the GOP for gutting ACA?
Did the people not put them in power for this exact reason?
Althalucian
All Star
What's incredible is that I keep checking all my conservative, republican, and Trump websites and no one knows what's in it. Most of the more uneducated, enthusiastic Trump supporters go "Yay, we did it!!!" while the more more educated and smarter bunch go "Ok, but what's in it?" People respond to that question with, I kid you not, "I don't know." And what's funny is that there are more people saying "I don't know" than "Yay!" by a good 10 to 1.
Ladies and gentlemen: America.
Ladies and gentlemen: America.
Incredible.
I would love to see it but these cowards have already been ducking their own constituents and town halls.I look forward to these town halls explaining how this will be better.
Darth Nubian
I bought my first Ki from my baby momma brother
Never doesn't exist in a reality where Donald Trump is president.
nothing actually happened
IF it passes the senate, this weak ass new healthcare bill is the law of the land
because these rednecks are realizing that they actually need a lot of it :deadjay:Why is there so much anger being thrown at the GOP for gutting ACA?
Did the people not put them in power for this exact reason?
no one who makes less than 50 thousand a year has ANY business voting republican, and the average american makes 35k a year, and yet these scumbags keep getting elected. this could be a monumental moment when it comes to their base finally realizing that they're voting against their own interests
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