House Republicans on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping health care bill aimed at fulfilling their campaign promise to upend ObamaCare, after bringing out the legislative defibrillators to resuscitate a package that had flatlined on the floor not six weeks earlier.
The revised American Health Care Act passed on a 217-213 vote. It heads next to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain fate.
“A lot of us have been waiting seven years to cast this vote,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday.
Capping a fiery debate moments before the vote, Ryan appealed to colleagues to move beyond ObamaCare, which he called a “collapsing law” and “failed experiment.” Citing the situation in Iowa, where the last statewide insurer is threatening to leave, Ryan said: “This is a crisis. … What protection is ObamaCare if there is no health care plan to purchase in your state?”
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17 comments:
It is about time. Now the lazy among us will no longer be able to freeload off the hard work of Good Americans like us. Go get your own health care. It's not my responsibility to provide it for you. We are NOT a Socialist country.
So we'll leave millions without insurance because we have no replacement. Nice.
Utterly shameful.
Is it true our rulers exempted themselves from the legislation?
YEP 100% CORRECT.
Now you will be able to afford insurance. Your welcome
Free beacon is reporting NYT faked the exemption news!
Thats Good, but it barely passed the House. I bet when it gets to Senate those Democ-rats will throw hissy fits and roadblocks to railroad this bill, like you have never seen before.
Now i hope they grow a pair and remove, comie, put susan rice , on the stand , and prosecute the racket called the Clintons!
Funny, neither BOC nor MDT thought this was big news tonight. Our local media sucks so bad, it's no wonder they're last on the Nielsen rating system. They're a bigger disgrace than regular MSM. Oh, by the way, Dan says it'll rain after midnight. We'll see how that one works out.
258 you are sadly misinformed. Once again, more nonsense chatter from the chosen ignorants. The insurance companies were imploding, meaning you would be forced into Universal Healthcare. That was the game plan all along. Now, let's hope we can resurrect and undo most of the damage the democrats did when they passed their insane legislation in 2010.
It's been 7 hours, anyone dead yet? 258, have you died yet?
There is nothing good about people that are happy about taking health care away from the elderly the disabled and the poor. Those are the people that benefit most. Not the lazy as you say.
Have to laugh at that. Have you read the bill. You will be paying more than you can even imagine.
1007 give me example from the bill how my rates will go up??!. I pay 1380 a month now with a 3000 dollar deductible.
If you have a lapse in coverage and a pre-existing condition, the insurance company can charge you whatever they want now.
Did congress exempt themselves and their employees?
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