Wednesday, May 03, 2017 4:39:55 AM
G.O.P. Scrambles as a Crucial Voice Shuns the Latest Health Bill
"How Republicans quietly sabotaged Obamacare long before Trump came into office"
By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEARMAY 2, 2017
Speaker Paul D. Ryan arrived for a Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday.
Credit Cliff Owen/Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With two days left before an 11-day recess and no vote scheduled, House Republican leaders worked on Tuesday to win votes one at a time for their latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act after an influential Republican voice on health care came out against the measure.
A failure to get the repeal bill to a vote this week would be the third time that Speaker Paul D. Ryan could not rally his considerable House majority around a legislative priority that Republicans have promised for seven years.
Republican leaders were ready to move on from health care after the embarrassing collapse of their measure .. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html .. in March, but President Trump pressed Mr. Ryan hard to deliver on a major campaign promise and personally pressured House members to fall into line.
If the effort fails, it will greatly weaken the president’s hand on Capitol Hill and cast a shadow across the rest of his legislative agenda, especially the deep tax cuts and rewrite of the tax code that he has proposed — and that are likely to be no easier to tackle than health care.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/health-care-paul-ryan-fred-upton-congress.html
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Patients Who Rely on Obamacare Protections Are Worried
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and REED ABELSONMAY 2, 2017
Fran Cannon Slayton is a children’s book author who received a diagnosis of brain cancer in 2016. She has Affordable Care Act coverage
and is concerned she will lose protections for pre-existing conditions. Credit Matt Eich for The New York Times
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/health/obamacare-patients-preexisting-conditions.html?_r=0
.. see Trump hysterically crying into the dark .. DO IT! DO IT! .. little voice from the light, but Donald dear, you wonderful, the best president
ever .. nothing is ready yet .. you haven't given us anything which can be done .. you're still a great president though .. the best!
"How Republicans quietly sabotaged Obamacare long before Trump came into office"
By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEARMAY 2, 2017
Speaker Paul D. Ryan arrived for a Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday.
Credit Cliff Owen/Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With two days left before an 11-day recess and no vote scheduled, House Republican leaders worked on Tuesday to win votes one at a time for their latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act after an influential Republican voice on health care came out against the measure.
A failure to get the repeal bill to a vote this week would be the third time that Speaker Paul D. Ryan could not rally his considerable House majority around a legislative priority that Republicans have promised for seven years.
Republican leaders were ready to move on from health care after the embarrassing collapse of their measure .. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html .. in March, but President Trump pressed Mr. Ryan hard to deliver on a major campaign promise and personally pressured House members to fall into line.
If the effort fails, it will greatly weaken the president’s hand on Capitol Hill and cast a shadow across the rest of his legislative agenda, especially the deep tax cuts and rewrite of the tax code that he has proposed — and that are likely to be no easier to tackle than health care.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/health-care-paul-ryan-fred-upton-congress.html
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Patients Who Rely on Obamacare Protections Are Worried
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and REED ABELSONMAY 2, 2017
Fran Cannon Slayton is a children’s book author who received a diagnosis of brain cancer in 2016. She has Affordable Care Act coverage
and is concerned she will lose protections for pre-existing conditions. Credit Matt Eich for The New York Times
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/health/obamacare-patients-preexisting-conditions.html?_r=0
.. see Trump hysterically crying into the dark .. DO IT! DO IT! .. little voice from the light, but Donald dear, you wonderful, the best president
ever .. nothing is ready yet .. you haven't given us anything which can be done .. you're still a great president though .. the best!
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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