Repeals Authority for Feds to run healthcare exchanges, ends subsidies and penalties
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Alexander Bolton | The Hill
The Senate on Thursday passed legislation repealing the core pillars of ObamaCare, taking a major step toward sending such a bill to the president’s desk for the first time.
Republicans hailed it as a political messaging victory and a fulfillment of their promise from the 2014 midterm election to force President Obama to veto the landmark healthcare reform law named after him.
The measure passed 52 to 47 after the Senate voted to significantly strengthen the bill originally passed by the House and brought straight to the floor by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).The House will need to approve the amended legislation before it can be sent to the White House.
Thursday’s vote was a major event in the Senate, as Democrats never allowed a standalone vote on an ObamaCare repeal bill when they controlled the chamber.
Democrats were also unable to block the GOP measure, which was brought to the floor under budget reconciliation rules that prevented a filibuster.
“For too long, Democrats did everything to prevent Congress from passing the type of legislation necessary to help these Americans who are hurting,” McConnell said on the floor. “Today, that ends.”
The measure guts the law by repealing authority for the federal government to run healthcare exchanges, and scrapping subsidies to help people afford plans bought through those exchanges. It zeros out the penalties on individuals who do not buy insurance and employers who do not offer health insurance.
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This is such a BS political move.
These f*cking guys have had opportunity after opportunity to vote AGAINST many things, namely the Patriot Act and other Civil Rights violating bills and have done nothing! Just because they did this doesn’t suddenly make them a conservative group.
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Only difference between the 2 parties is the color of their ties. The only way it can be fully repealed is by executive action by a future president. Trump has said he will repeal it, if elected.
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Republicans at the house and senate as Soho greasy hookers they fuck Piccadilly but they save their tailgate tight for their pump. Eehmm! I mean Ayaatooollah Barack Hussein Obama who’ll VETO the hell of their fore founding fathers terminally.
Courtesy of SUICIDE BOMBERS MAGAZINE Disclaimer: we swear on Elvis’s pickled penis that “non-sapient beings” I mean animals harmed during IED kahbooom. “Viewer Discretion Is Advised”
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