BREAKING : Senate Votes 51-48 To Begin Repealing Obamacare
Obamacare has been nothing short of a total disaster. Insurers are pulling out and premiums are skyrocketing. The good news is, the first steps towards dismantling the failed health policy have begun.
From USAToday
After debating seven hours through the night, the Senate voted early Thursday to take the first real step toward repealing Obamacare — a top goal of congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump.
Senators voted 51-48 to approve a budget resolution that Republicans will use as a vehicle to speed through repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. House leaders plan to take it up Friday.
Senators began voting on 19 amendments to the resolution about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday before passing the budget measure about 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
Republicans said the 2010 health care law is broken and must be repealed and replaced with something better — although just what that replacement plan will look like has not yet been revealed by congressional leaders. Critics of the law cite sky-rocketing premiums, high deductibles and fewer health care choices for patients as insurers pull out of the program.
“When Obamacare’s supporters forced their partisan law on our country, they promised an easy-to-use system; one that would lower premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs; one that would foster choice and allow families to keep the plans and doctors they liked,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “But it didn’t take long for the American people to discover the truth about Obamacare. Too many have been personally hurt by this law. Too many feel they’re worse off than they were before Obamacare.”
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[…] Obamacare has been nothing but a total nightmare. Insurers rushing to pull out and premiums have skyrocketed. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the first steps towards dismantling the failed health policy have already begun! SCORE! […]
Obama Care a complete fiasco…I can’t even imagine what health care costs would have been if Hillary won…Thank God for Donald Trump.
It only passed by 3 lousy votes, who were the turncoat republicans that voted with the Democrats. the Republicans were so happy and proud of themselves when they retook the Senate, and retained their majority in the House. So who were the Republicans that act like Democrats and voted with them. Republicans have a big problem of not sticking together like the Democrats do, Democrats in the vast majority of cases almost always vote strait Party lines, leaving nothing to chance, while Republicans apparently haven’t learned how to do this as of yet.