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Health/Medical Title: Morning Consult: Public support for the AHCA is beginning to tank With the House likely to vote Thursday on the GOP health care bill, 43 percent of registered voters think the GOP in Congress should slow down in replacing the Affordable Care Act. Just 17 percent of voters think Republicans, who aim to have the bill considered on the Senate floor next week, are moving at the right pace on health care. Not even GOP voters are firmly behind the Republican timeline for replacing Obamacare. A third of Republicans think the replacement is moving through Congress at the right speed, while 28 percent want them to slow down. Twenty-four percent of GOP voters think congressional Republicans are moving too slowly. Here’s the tale of the tape in graphic form. The direction of movement is pretty obvious. They covered quite a few questions in the survey but only a couple of them really stand out to me. One of the first ones is the issue of how fast this package is being rushed through the process. The results are all over the place but there’s clearly a sizable group of voters who think that this is simply going too quickly. The number who “don’t know” how they feel about various aspects of the question no doubt ties into that. None of us really know enough about this bill yet. Then there is the issue of how the AHCA will hit people where it counts, that being in the wallet. A plurality clearly believe that their costs are going to go up even more, with only one in five voters thinking that the GOP has figured out how to make their premiums go down. Would we expect anything different? They’ve been sold this bill of goods before when the original Obamacare legislation was pushed through and we all saw the results. Fool me once, shame on you etc. It’s still not impossible that Paul Ryan can manage this heavy lift and get something to Donald Trump’s desk. But given the resistance which is already showing up in the Senate that’s looking less likely by the day. And perhaps that’s for the best. Obamacare has been a disaster, but at least it was a disaster entirely of the Democrats’ making. If this new scheme (which may wind up being known as Ryancare, Trumpcare or who even knows what) makes its way into law and the system either fails to improve or, God help us all, it gets worse, the Republicans are going to own this entire fiasco for years to come. We saw how well that worked out for the Democrats. Poster Comment: You begin to see support in various sectors of the Right for the idea of just letting 0bamaCare fail entirely on its own so that Dems keep all the blame for the fiasco.(1 image) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Thomas Massie is changing his vote to, hell no! The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party![]() #2. To: hondo68 (#1) Massie isn't the only one.
#3. To: All (#1)
Must be a fiscal conservative. The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party![]() #4. To: Tooconservative (#0) (Edited) Public support for the AHCA is beginning to tank The BILL will PASS in the House....the tide is turning. The "hold outs" in the House are coming on board ... The Art of the Deal ...
#5. To: Gatlin (#4) (Edited) The BILL will PASS in the House....the tide is turning. Only one has flipped from "leaning no" to "yes" after he extracted a carveout for his district. There are a number of "moderates", especially in upper NY in the 8 seats the GOP has there who held out for their own deal (and got it). That one involved forcing NY state to shoulder the increased costs from Medicaid and not passing on a portion to each rural county (as state law requires in NY state). I think Ryan and Trump have already bought the votes they can buy. And I think they've run out of people they can threaten. At this point, Ryan has to cave and allow substantial amendments or this turkey will go down in flames.
#6. To: Tooconservative (#5) (Edited) I am still going with my prediction....the House bill will pass. Whatever it takes ... Now....we shall wait and see.
#7. To: Gatlin (#6) I'm expecting a performance as shameful (and foolish) as that which gave us the GOP Pill Bill back in 2004. And there are plenty of Freedom Caucus members that recall that foolishness vividly. Boehner held a floor vote open for around 4 hours that time.
#8. To: Gatlin (#6) (Edited)
![]() ![]() Some of the bullet points the Cato Institute delivered to the Freedom Caucus pic.twitter.com/JNCd5tWyXv 20 replies 52 retweets 57 likes The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party![]() #9. To: All (#6) My confidential source said there has been a slight delay. We now need to wait until Monday ... Media announcement expected shortly to that effect.
#10. To: Tooconservative (#9) Ooops....that last post was for you.
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