Abortion Adds Obstacle as Republicans Plan to Unveil Health Bill
"The Secret Republican Health Care Bill Is an Affront to Enlightenment Values"
By ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLANJUNE 21, 2017
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, hopes to unveil the contents of Republicans’ health bill on Thursday and pass it next week. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Abortion flared up Wednesday as the latest hot-button issue to complicate passage of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which Senate Republican leaders hope to unveil on Thursday and pass next week.
If that provision is dropped, a bill that has already elicited deep misgivings among moderate Republicans — and stiff resistance from Democrats, health care providers and patient advocacy groups — could also generate concern among abortion opponents, as well as conservative lawmakers.
The changes being considered in Congress could “amount to a 25 percent shortfall in covering the actual cost of providing care to our nation’s neediest citizens,” the top executives of 10 insurance companies wrote this week. “These amounts spell deep cuts, not state flexibilities, in Medicaid.”
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Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, made clear on Wednesday that he was not on board with the Republican bill.
“I’m still hoping we reach impasse, and we actually go back to the idea we originally started with, which is repealing Obamacare,” Mr. Paul said, adding, “I’m not for replacing Obamacare with Obamacare lite.”
.. lol, Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. .. http://www.potw.org/archive/potw283.html .. shortsightedness rules the day .. is there anyone in the room who doesn't expect America will have universal healthcare within 20 years, or so .. grr.
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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