GOP health care push reflects a breakdown in American governance
GOP health care push reflects a breakdown in American governance
05/04/17 08:00 AM—Updated 05/04/17 11:33 AM
By Steve Benen
Stakeholders from throughout the health care system – doctors, nurses, hospitals, patient advocates, et al – have condemned the Republicans’ health care plan is no uncertain terms. To date, GOP policymakers have decided those voices simply do not matter and deserve to be ignored.
Republicans have not, however, heard from their own Congressional Budget Office, as Vox’s Sarah Kliff noted late yesterday:
The House of Representatives will vote on the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, on Thursday in the early afternoon. House Republicans are hurtling toward a vote on a bill that is disliked by most Americans, opposed by nearly every major health care group, and not yet scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
This is an unusual situation, and a puzzling one.
As broken as our political system often appears, these circumstances are almost hard to believe: House Republicans are poised to vote on legislation that will have a life-or-death impact on much of the American population, but they have no idea what their bill costs, how many citizens will lose their health coverage, or how the deficit will be affected.
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05/04/17 08:00 AM—Updated 05/04/17 11:33 AM
By Steve Benen
Stakeholders from throughout the health care system – doctors, nurses, hospitals, patient advocates, et al – have condemned the Republicans’ health care plan is no uncertain terms. To date, GOP policymakers have decided those voices simply do not matter and deserve to be ignored.
Republicans have not, however, heard from their own Congressional Budget Office, as Vox’s Sarah Kliff noted late yesterday:
The House of Representatives will vote on the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, on Thursday in the early afternoon. House Republicans are hurtling toward a vote on a bill that is disliked by most Americans, opposed by nearly every major health care group, and not yet scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
This is an unusual situation, and a puzzling one.
As broken as our political system often appears, these circumstances are almost hard to believe: House Republicans are poised to vote on legislation that will have a life-or-death impact on much of the American population, but they have no idea what their bill costs, how many citizens will lose their health coverage, or how the deficit will be affected.
READ MORE: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/go...
If this was baseball game, this would be just the first inning. Why is this team running out on the field giving themselves high-fives now?
17% of The American People approve of this plan.