Four conservative Senators issued a statement today opposing the awful Senate Healthcare bill released by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Those Senators are Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. From the Washington Post:
“Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor,” the statement read. “There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current healthcare system 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.”
Senator Rand Paul added,
“The current bill does not repeal Obamacare. It does not keep our promises to the American people. I will oppose it coming to the floor in its current form, but I remain open to negotiations,”
Back to the drawing boards for McConnell.
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The republican leadership is as guilty of advancing the socialist welfare state as the democrats. Until the cycle of ever expanding government freebies is stopped we will get poorer and poorer bills that will make Obamacare look wonders in hindsight. Our leaders have forgotten to trust the people with Trump, apparently, being an exception in a number of cases.
What do you expect from a bunch of white guys in love with Alex Jones
Wow! You got all your racist, sexist, and anti-American diatribe in one short sentence. Now all you need to do is add an assassination comment and you can confirm that you are an insane progressive.
Deja vu all over again. Some people never learn.
Rand Paul wrote a great proposed bill a while back which should have been the basis of this bill.
The moniker “The Stupid Party” still stands!
Agree, they should have used Rand Paul’s bill.
But it might have lowered costs and increased competition, and the insurance companies don’t want that. And since they were the ones writing the bill…