Hope You Don’t Expect The Senate GOP To Be Transparent About Obamacare Repeal
Hope You Don’t Expect The Senate GOP To Be Transparent About Obamacare Repeal
Private negotiations, a quick floor vote — yeah, you’ve seen this before.
By Jonathan Cohn
Senate Republicans have spent the last 10 days or so promising not to tackle health care in the same hurried, irresponsible way that their House counterparts did. “We are not under any deadlines,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said last week, “so we are going to take our time.”
They have also suggested they have little interest in drafting something that looks like the American Health Care Act ¯ the wildly unpopular House bill that would roll back many of the Affordable Care Act’s most important insurance regulations and deprive something like 24 million people of coverage. “We’re starting over from a clean sheet of paper here,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) promised.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate...
Private negotiations, a quick floor vote — yeah, you’ve seen this before.
By Jonathan Cohn
Senate Republicans have spent the last 10 days or so promising not to tackle health care in the same hurried, irresponsible way that their House counterparts did. “We are not under any deadlines,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said last week, “so we are going to take our time.”
They have also suggested they have little interest in drafting something that looks like the American Health Care Act ¯ the wildly unpopular House bill that would roll back many of the Affordable Care Act’s most important insurance regulations and deprive something like 24 million people of coverage. “We’re starting over from a clean sheet of paper here,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) promised.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate...
