Trump Win, As Freedom Caucus Endorses Obamacare Opt-Out Bill

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One of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited campaign promises may soon reach fruition, as the Freedom Caucus on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to an Obamacare bill that will allow states to opt out of key — hated — portions of the law.

The hard-line conservatives had bucked the bill tossed about Capitol Hill for weeks, saying it was too weak to bring home to constituents and that it didn’t contain the promised reforms.

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Members of the Freedom Caucus debate Obamacare.

Apparently, their stand-off has brought results and now, Trump’s likely to get the applause. Why? He’s the one, after all, who pressed hard to get the anti-Obamacare attitudes rolling on Capitol Hill, to the point where congressional members have actually acted.

Republican leadership, meanwhile, has more dickered and dithered on the matter.

From The Hill:

“The group of roughly 30 hard-line conservatives held out for weeks, scuttling a planned House vote on the bill last month after it became clear there was’t [sic] enough Republican support to pass it.

“The group said it sees the new amendment, brokered by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and centrist Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), as the best option short of fully repealing the 2010 law.

“‘While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs,’ the Freedom Caucus said in a statement.’We look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to improve the bill. Our work will continue until we fully repeal Obamacare.’

“The MacArthur-Meadows amendment lets states apply for waivers from ObamaCare provisions that ban insurers from charging sick people higher premiums and mandate minimum insurance coverage requirements, as long as the state offers high-risk pools as an alternative.

“Moderate Republicans are facing a difficult decision on the bill now that the Freedom Caucus has backed it, bringing the legislation close to the 216 House votes needed for passage.

“Members of the centrist Tuesday Group said Wednesday they were either still opposed or on the fence.”

It’s a light at the end of the tunnel, that’s for sure.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

America will have to dp something as medical costs cannot be continued to be added to welfare and other social services. There is only much money, o’bimbo made sure he spent every cent before he left to make sure there was nothing left for the average American.

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Continuing a recent trend, I expect any move to repeal Obamacare in any form to be blocked by some left wing judge we’ve never heard of. The republicans will shrug and say ‘oh well’.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

Republicans are turning out to be bigger wimps than previously anticipated.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Republicans can only submit legislation after it is written by their financial backers/puppet masters. Democrats are much of the same.

Look at all the Trump promises about throwing the Muslim Brotherhood out of government and putting America First, that went by the wayside once he had meetings with the Hashemite Kingdom (former Saudis), and Saudi Arabia, and then a chat with AbbASS.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

There does seem to be a loss of momentum in the unislamification of America

Mack Pooh
Mack Pooh
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

According to whose standard??

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mack Pooh

Mine

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I really thought Trump would be the lesser of 2 evils, and voted accordingly, now I am starting to think they are more equal than not, and who in the end will turn out to be worse could very well end up Trump. This saddens me greatly, I had high hopes for Trump.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Give him some time, it takes longer to improve and repair than it does to degrade and destroy.

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

McConnell actually surprised me by blocking Obama’s court nominee and then getting Gorsuch through. Paul Ryan is jut plain on the other side.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

Paula Rino-Ryan is in with the Romney Rinos and the Billy Crystal/Lame McCain Neo-Cons……Ryan is the snake that Trump talked about during the primaries….the one where the woman saved the snake’s life and when he was well he bit her and then mocked her surprise with: “Why did you save me if you knew I was a snake?”

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
6 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Yes, I’ve said similar things, just with a lot of profanity interspersed.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

The medical establishment in America is in the business of health care for profit – that’s it. The AMA spearheaded its approval for Obamacare way back when, and doctors naturally followed suit. No matter what happens here, do not expect the quality of care to improve. The same allopathic devastation of humans being will go on for a huge price paid to to administrators, pharmaceuticals and health care “providers”.

spfg
spfg
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

The real solution to the high cost of healthcare is the following. Back in the 60’s they used to put Iodine in our foods such as bread pasta etc. That practice has since been discontinued. An adequate amount of Iodine in our bodies helps to prevent many diseases including cancer and hypothyroidism which over 50% percent of our population suffers from. This mineral additive alone would probably reduce the cost of healthcare by about 50% if reinstituted. Also it is government overreach to outlaw realfood such as raw milk, studies have proven that the benefits far outweigh the risks compared to pasteurized milk. The option to purchase raw milk should be made mandatory. That also needs to be reversed as today many children have weak bones which solely can be traced back to not being able to purchase raw milk. And the list goes on for other foods as well so in order to reduce healthcare cost first we need to set healthier standards for our food supply..That is the real solution to our high healthcare costs which no one in our government is addressing!!!

Cai
Cai
6 years ago
Reply to  spfg

When I was a child my mother always used iodised salt, a habit which I have continued thought out my life. Maybe this is available in your country.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  spfg

Excellent points. Then too, is the ongoing war of the AMA in conjunction with FDA to ban vitamins and other supplements, because these may help a person to experience improved health. It has become more about control of health care, and who profits from it – not that a person gets healthy or retains his health..

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

You are ever so right! :0)

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Crystalcsutter
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

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ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  spfg

Excellent post :0)

If you read: “SOLVED: THE RIDDLE OF ILLNESS”….you will learn that putting fluoride in our water….and putting soy in EVERYTHING….right down to the glue that used to be on the back of post office stamps…..destroys the thyroid….that has been shown and proven over and over again.

Cancers, heart disease, obesity….hormone problems…..have been escalating and rampid since these practices started….it used to be two women out of ten got breast cancer…..now it’s something like 8 in 10……more and more men getting testicular cancer….
These same government people are the ones lying about “Global warming” that only “scientist” who got Federal Grants from Obite-me said was happening so he and his cohorts could set up “energy exchanges” and get more filthy rich…..while the scientist who didn’t get grants published the real information and truth….there IS NO GLOBAL WARMING.

The two times I had cancer I learned one thing…..there will never be a “cure” allowed for cancer because there isn’t much money for a cure….there is only billions for the “TREATMENT” of cancer…..for the AMA and all their members….

spfg
spfg
6 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

We need to fight these agencies!!! The AMA, FDA and any other so called health agencies and also fight the medical cartel with their price gouging against the uninsured along with the insurance companies. If everyone fights them we can defeat them. We need to fight, fight, fight….

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Carolynrpittman
6 years ago
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Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

There are now 4 millions muslims in usa and growing. It’s necessary better health services

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago

What? what does 4 million muslims have to do with better health services?

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

They will either drag it down or abandon it altogether when they realize they do not butcher prepubescent girls’ twats.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago

YOu are a very sick Troll.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

I believe there are more than 4 million. In places as diverse as the Islamic Center in Phoenix west if I-17 between Glendale and Northern Avenues, or the “little mosque on the prairie” at Ross, Mountrail County, North Dakota. Have you heard of that one?

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago

By the beard of the prophet Spacearcy it is written that camel urine will heal all afflictions.

movingwaters
movingwaters
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

I don’t know if you live in a liberal la la land or not. Most doctors of all specialties that I know of saw through and hated ObamaCare from the get go. They know the quality of care and their own input to deliver quality care will be reduced. But it is my understanding that we do have mainly very good doctors in this area. You are right that big institutions did promote ObamaCare while being fully cognizant of its sinister flaws. One was AARP. Senior should consider the conservative, freedom loving AMAC instead.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

I have a doctor who was against Affordable Care – and for providing quality health care to his patients. An exception DO – cares for his patients.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Hey….mine was a DO also. Best doctor ever! I find them very open to alternative and natural care as well as mainstream. I’m looking for a new DO in Las Vegas when I move back there this summer.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

My doctor gave up his practice when Obummercare came in…..he became a doctor at a county hospital.

I had to threaten the AARP with a law suit to make them quit sending me things and pretending I was a member…it is a socialist organization that actually works against the best interest of seniors.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

That’s the standard cycle in American politics. When conservatives are in power, they generally get the finances in some better order. When the leftists get back in power, they squander any savings and blow out the budget. The previous admin, though, were the all-time champs at that 🙂

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

That is how it works every where, which is why socialism is such a consistent failure, is socialist governments are incapable of intelligent financial management.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

But Obite-me had no problem sending 400 Billion on pallets to the Iranians and then another 350 Billion……I’m betting my lunch money that some large portion of that was set aside in a nice little off-shore account for the Obamas……any takers?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Strongly suspect there are still pallets of money in o’bimbo’s garage that he is using to fund his attempted vichy government of America.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I would not be surprised one bit.

mm
mm
6 years ago

MUST WATCH – Sweden is Dying: TV Ad declares, “The New Country” – Ethnic Swedes will be replaced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-_KZExlJ0

Tishia Harrison
Tishia Harrison
6 years ago
Reply to  mm

This is horrendous! Is Sweden really going to just roll over and play dead or is this just a propaganda video similar to what our Dems/Libs/Soros puts out?

kjn
kjn
6 years ago

It is mere acknowledgement of reality. Look at what it says in the first line – There is no going back.

They know there is no going back, and so they are preparing sweden to accept the inevitable.

Note the underhandedness of the bastards – They say – Not only new swedes need to integrate, but old swedes too. When the whole world knows fully well that muslims have never integrated, and will never integrate. Since they need that old swedes integrate, and they could not say it unilaterally, they dishonestly injected ‘old swedes need to integrate’, knowing fully well that only one side will be integrating.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago

Nope. It’s not a propaganda video…..saw a news story the other day where the leader of Sweden said ALL women who aren’t Muslim should now wear head scarves so they won’t stand out…..really?

In other words….camouflage to keep from getting beheaded by the Islamic invader? Like the Muslim murderers don’t know who are their own kind are whether they have a scarf or not? Pretty soon they’ll change the name of their country to Swedenstan……

Every Senior I know….including me….has cancelled all plans to ever set foot in Europe again…..I know so many families who were going to take their kids to Europe to learn the history…..that’s all changed…including the “history”…

Tourism is dead in Europe for decades to come…if not forever.

spfg
spfg
6 years ago
Reply to  mm

What a line of crap!! This type of artificial dream like utopia is no different than what the Dems want for America. It has never been achieved and never will be when you invite a culture that abhors the idea of blending in with others of different faiths. Sooner or later one will defeat the other and become dominant. And the way things are going it doesn’t look like Christianity will win the day for Sweden!!!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  mm

She’s an idiot! “Hate and Fear” are the hallmarks of Islam…..so long Sweden…..sad.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mm

Unless sweden is going to put the qur’an and islam aside, it is pissing into the wind with the particularly stupid idea that fear and hate can be removed from muslims.

Tishia Harrison
Tishia Harrison
6 years ago

I opposed the “replacement” of
Obamacare with Ryancare! Start over and do it right! Passing flawed legislation
for the sake of passing legislation is wrong. Having any legislation brought
forward by the Dems/Libs/Soros Treasonous RINO Ryan is an insult to America! The government has Medical &
Medicare, that is sufficient, and would be time well spent looking into those
processes for improvements. Illegals are Illegal and do not deserve any
hard-earned taxpayer monies or benefits except immediate deportation!!
The initial Healthcare reform legislation by
GOP Leaders (RyanCare) would have, at best, left untouched a confirmation
system that allowed up to 500,000 illegal aliens to access taxpayer-funded
benefits over the years of the Obama administration. Illegal aliens are
not entitled to any benefits the American Taxpayers have worked our lives for.
NONE! http://drrichswier.com/2016/05/18/mrs-janna-little-ryan-a-liberal-running-the-show-from-the-family-kitchen-table/

Mack Pooh
Mack Pooh
6 years ago

My vote for Trump seems to be in the beginning stage of a haunt.

He is back sliding on the wall. He is beginning to show his true colors when it comes to environmental concerns. He is propping up an already criminal VA. He is now saying instead of getting rid of NAFTA, he’ll renegotiate it. He is giving the idiotic womb rejected NRA free reign.

And all you can tell me is the freedom caucus might be his saving grace when it comes to getting rid of obamacare.

Now let us see what he does with taxes and national defense. And then there are the sanctuary cities, will he back down from that agenda.

Lock and load MFers!
Lock and load MFers!
6 years ago
Reply to  Mack Pooh

And now his dumb shirt daughter is inviting rapefugees over here because it’s the humanitarian thing to do!
We’re being screwed. Guess we will eventually have to burn it to the ground, literally, in order to fix it – our votes mean nothing.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

The Trump administration is double stuffed with Globalists, everyone was saying he is bringing his enemies closer, but maybe they are just his friends and family after all.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
6 years ago
Reply to  Mack Pooh

Wow….are you ever a fair-weather supporter. The man has been in office three months….has accomplished more in that three months than any other President…..and you’re irritated because he couldn’t just snap his fingers and every thing that the Clintons, Bush Cartel (Papa and GW), and the Muslim Marxist Obite-me did to America was supposed to have righted immediately…..

Trump will right things…..over time…despite Ryan….despite the Mc’Lame-Gramnesty RINO/Establishment, despite Schumer/Schmuck, Dirty Harry Reid,…all the others who went into politics to fatten their purses….not serve America and her people.

Tishia Harrison
Tishia Harrison
6 years ago

This stinks to High Heavens!!!!!!!!It would allow states to remove protections for
pre-existing conditions, meaning, if invoked, insurers could charge higher
premiums for high-risk patients. But the amendment would shield federal
lawmakers and their staff if states exercised the opt-out provision.

“The best evidence yet that the new GOP repeal plan is a disaster for people’s health care is that the GOP exempted members of Congress from living under it,” Leslie Dach, director of the liberal-aligned Protect Our Care Campaign, told The Hill.

The exemption in the MacArthur Amendment was first reported by the left-wing site
Vox. http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/gop-health-care-compromise-includes-exemption-congress/?utm_content=bufferb6999&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=laura_ingraham_buffer

Also: Trump PAC Rewards ‘Repeal Obamacare Caucus’ with Ad Buy Group run by White House allies launches $3 million campaign to boost cooperative lawmakers

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-pac-rewards-repeal-obamacare-caucus-with-ad-buy/

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Has anyone ever given some serious thought to how different the whole complexion of things would be today if both Obhammud and Trump received the same scrutiny, criticism, and praise in the same proportion and with the same objectivity? After all, with Obhammud it was “never is heard a discouraging word” while the negativity on Trump has to be invented.

Obama = One Big Ass Mistake America

ryan and trump, pad your pants
ryan and trump, pad your pants
6 years ago

This is the latest phukup by Donald. Leave it to the states to “opt-out”? What a crock of shirt!
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This bill is more welfare to the insurance companies in the form of “tax credits” – no different from Obuttholes “subsidies”.
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Trump and Lyin Ryan need their a$$es kicked HARD over this failure.
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This was so simple – just allow health insurers to offer free market policies across state lines, etc. Nope, can’t do that – gotta have this government meddling in our health care.
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I can’t legally write what needs to happen to these shirt heads.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
6 years ago

The Corporate Masters must be fed, or the political contributions will go elsewhere to people who will do their bidding. This is no mystery, this is money in Politics, and everyone knows by now that Corporations are people too.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

The key that most people miss is that the bill still requires the citizen to BUY into government-mandated health insurance. The government is not an insurance agency, and never will be. It will use the “insurance” to ensure that people are held under the government control, not the way that the framers of the Constitution envisioned – with the government controlled by the people.

JWM
JWM
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Correct, the government has not stepped away from controlling health care.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

It was the rino Ryan that was the problem. When Obama was president they sent one bill after another to kill Obamacare because Ryan knew Obama would veto it but when Trump came in he would not do the same for he knew Trump would sign it in a heartbeat. Ryan tried to pass almost the same kind of crap the democrats did because Ryan is a Progressive in Republican clothing and he has fully funded Obama’s programs since he became king of the house. He has tried to stop Trump in every way shape and form and is now working with the rino McConnell to stop Trumps wall. These rinos need to hear from us that we will replace their asses like we did with Pelosi and Reid!

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