Pat Robertson: Mark My Words, The GOP Health Bill Will Pass!

That was the way it was supposed to go.

Dan River Region patients and health providers say the Affordable Care Act helped them expand services and pay for expensive medication, while repeal and replacement efforts would have cut services and left residents uninsured. He said under the Republican bill, IL stands to lose 25 percent of federal Medicaid funding, amounting to at least $40 billion over 10 years.

“I don’t think you can tie any of these together”, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Friday. “They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very, very hard thing to do”. Because they never had them.

“It is something initiated by the Republicans in the Congress, their leadership, Mr. Ryan”.

Mr Trump’s status as an unconventional politician served him well in the 2016 presidential campaign, for which he won the overwhelming support of those who bought into his promise to “drain the swamp”. And the bill was bad.

“Southern Californians are struggling with rising health care costs, and today’s events leave this fact unchanged”, Royce said. The AHCA would have had serious negative impacts on millions of people’s access to affordable health insurance coverage, particularly family farmers, ranchers and rural citizens. And it is – at least as it applies to Obamacare – for some time to come.

“I was going to vote against the House Republican healthcare bill”. It is to his credit that Mr Trump is learning these critical lessons about how to succeed in Washington at this point in his young presidency. Trump has touted his negotiating skills for years.

That president, for his part, seemed more concerned with notching a “win” and demonstrating his negotiating prowess.

The surprising thing, then, isn’t that as few as 17 percent of people approved of Trumpcare.

Meanwhile, Democrats are empowered.

Perhaps they also chuckled when they heard that Sen. The real issue that Republicans focused on was how to repeal “Obamacare”.

Eliminating the requirement that public and private plans cover preventive services without cost sharing, including cancer screenings and well-woman visits. And there is the other humiliation awaiting House Republicans. Friday may be the day it’s repealed.

While pundits and politicians watched last week’s congressional health care debate and discussed vote counts and trade-offs, thousands of Kansans and Missourians and millions of other Americans anxiously awaited the outcome of the debate over the GOP health bill that ultimately was pulled. Nobody expects Congress to be FedEx.

The GOP has had about seven years to produce a workable alternative. There is nothing worse than a sore victor. Oregon’s Greg Walden called argument against AHCA “scare tactics”, which was pretty fresh coming from a member of the party that pushed the myth of “death panels” to discredit the Affordable Care Act.

This wasn’t just a matter of higher premiums and higher deductibles, though. “And honestly some of them really are”, insisted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, D-N.Y.

But even with complete control of the legislative and executive branches, the GOP couldn’t get it done. What happened Friday is on Republicans, no one else.

Republican opposition to the AHCA has come from all sides.