Trumpcare Megathread: It's dead (for now)

[Mike Thick]

BREAKING: McConnell delays the vote.

http://politi.co/2tWbafA

Don't know if his was mentioned here, but McCain is going to have a surgery and be unable to get to the Capitol and vote for a while, which would prevent passage since the margin for error is literally zero.

EDIT: this was literally like five posts ago lol

[Mike Thick]

It kind of makes you wonder why Mitch McConnell even wants to be majority leader in the first place.

He was supposed to be an institutionalist, but he has been desecrating Senate norms left and right.

He's an insider's insider, and yet it's abundantly clear that he's despised by the members of the elite club that he now leads.

He represents one of the poorest states in the country, and repeatedly tries to pass legislation that almost goes out of its way to do harm to his own constituents.

What is it all for? What does he want from all of this?

It's for power. Straight up. His only concern at this point is his own ambition.

[Mike Thick]

Jeff Merkley just introduced more than a hundred amendments.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/890295327210840065

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FF

God bless these men.

[Mike Thick]

Jeff Merkley just introduced more than a hundred amendments.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/890295327210840065

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God bless these men.

For introducing amendments that they didn't even write and will not make it into the bill?

Yes.

[Mike Thick]

In an ultimate move of Moderate Heroness, McCain dies on the senate floor.

Ducey appoints Ward to the seat and the bill passes 51-50

[Mike Thick]

Does anyone know enough about the policy specifics here to answer a pretty stupid question, ideally via PM?

[Mike Thick]

I'm too lazy to copy it in here, but Trump just tweeted out that Congress should not vote on any other bill until repeal is given another vote.

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https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/892475702511112198

Intentionally imploding the insurance market for political purposes is James Buchanan logic.

[Mike Thick]

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https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/892475702511112198

Intentionally imploding the insurance market for political purposes is James Buchanan logic.

Yes, but at this point that tweet is doing nothing more than communicating a rumor from an anonymous source. I doubt that Trump will actually go through with this given that everyone else in Washington is telling him not to.

He was a healthcare aficionado in the Obama admin. While there's obvious bias here, I give him a little more credibility than just someone who would spread unfounded rumors.