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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.U.S. Senate Republicans tie tax plan to repeal of Obamacare mandate
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CrazyJoe
Sen. Rand Paul. fresh out of the hospital where he was able to afford health care thanks to his excellent health insurance provided by his employer, the US Federal Government, rushes to the Capitol to make sure millions of American will lose their health insurance.
Oh, the hypocrisy!
SuperLib
Ah, so we can help pay for the corporate tax cut by removing 13,000,000 people from healthcare.
The problem is that they can't get under the $1.5 trillion deficit limit without doing something drastic, and Obamacare is really the only thing that gets them close to being there. So they don't really have a choice.
CrazyJoe
Meanwhile the rest of the developed world goes quietly on, decade after decade, paying half as much for healthcare yet getting better systems and covering everyone, cradle to grave, no questions asked.
bass4funk
As do all Congress members, all of them, including the Democrat congressmen and women. But Paul is right, there should be no mandate, Paul is a surgeon himself, so if anyone knows the complexity of the mess that the Democrats put us in 8 years ago, he strictly opposes giving money to the insurance companies to make them fat and happy and he knows that currently all the unnecessary provisions that are cramped into the ACA are really bleeding the middle class dry.
Not hypocrisy, it’s logical and rational thinking.
Yes and look at their GDP and look what happens when crap happens, they call the US because they can’t take care of themselves because they put all of their resources into entitlements. But countries like Greece, Cyprus and Spain are just doing fine...
Dear Lord.....
Strangerland
Wow, it's like they are trying to write bills they know will fail.
Black Sabbath
Well, that's a wrap then. They ain't gonna pass that.
noriyosan73
Translation: The middle class will continue to pay, the low income will automatically receive a check even though its group does not pay any taxes, and the upper class will "laugh all the way to the bank." Low income and high income will benefit from the "reform" bills. In the USA,
bass4funk
I’m pretty sure it will pass, might take some serious negotiating skills, Black coffee and a lot of donuts, but ultimately it will pass.