Even as major intra-party disagreements about House Obamacare replacement legislation continue, GOP leadership is aiming to bring the controversial bill, the American Health Care Act, up for a floor vote next Thursday, Politico reported based on two senior GOP sources.
The move comes as GOP leaders put on the full-court press to get defecting members on board, which included a highly visible meeting between President Donald Trump and about a dozen House members at the White House Friday morning.
Before it goes to the House floor, the legislation will be subjected to one more committee mark-up, in the House Rules Committee, where amendments to the bill are expected to be brought up. House leadership and the White House are working on a so-called manager’s amendment that they hope can straddle the different objections that Republican hardliners and the more moderate members have to the legislation in its current form.
Straddle?
Man is Paul Ryan desperate right now. He’s so close to killing off the poor and sick he can taste it.
And the Republicans complained for 8 years the ACA was rushed through Congress.
Come on Paulie, if your plan is so good, what is the rush? Let the plan stand on its own legs, for all to see.
Said it yesterday and I will say it again: House Dems need to introduce a “Medicare-for-all” alternative bill RIGHT NOW. One that drives a stake into the heart of this monstrosity. Or, at the very least, a bill that would offer “Public Option.” No chance of passing, but the optics couldn’t be better in the current morass…
I just heard Paul Ryan interviewed and he actually said that the Democrats let secretaries write up the ACA on Christmas Eve in the basement of the capitol. (He wasn’t challenged on that ridiculous assertion either). Now, he said, the GOP will put the bill forth without the details and Tom Price can fill in the language later. And Ryan is supposed to be the “policy wonk.”