Republicans probably won’t rally around a health care alternative before 2017, a GOP senator said Thursday.
Appearing on Fox News, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) suggested there will be “lots of ideas” but no health care proposal that unifies the party in the 114th Congress.
BRET BAIER: Do you think Republicans rally around one alternative before the end of this Congress?
RICHARD BURR: I don’t think so. I think that there are going to be a lot of ideas not only in Congress but around the think tanks here in Washington and around the country. But I do say this, we’re going to know a lot more after the Supreme Court hears the King v. Burwell case, and that’s going to be a short-term interim response. The long-term is, how do we revamp this in 2017 and after so it works for America’s patients?
Burr, along with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), proposed one of the more comprehensive GOP alternatives to Obamacare last Congress, but it failed to gain traction within the party.
That is gop/bag code for…NEVER!
How does statement impact the looming SCOTUS decision RE the ACA? In the event the SCOTUS guts the law, then, according to this GOP Senator, his party will not have an alternative ready until 2017.
The Rs controlled the Federal government for 6 years straight, Jan 2001 - Jan 2007.
They had every chance to address the health care crisis.
They didn’t bother then, and they would not bother in the future if they had the power to do so.
They do not pass any legislation that doesn’t have, as its primary goal, enriching themselves or their donors at the expense of the American People.
Simple as that.
GASP!
And here I was expecting them to promote JONIERNSTcare where the churches will take care of the truly needy…
We’ll have an AWESOME health care plan in 2017. Unless you vote for Hillary, in which case we’ll be too busy ginning up reasons to shut down the government because we hate women almost as much as we hate black people.