The vote directly before the ACA repeal vote was one to eliminate that exception.
So did it pass?
Yes, sorry, I should have said that. I don’t think it got a single no.
So AHCA, when they voted on it, no longer exempted Congress.
So, as it stands, it stands. Promises are being set in stone that they will act upon that right quick. Pretty soon. Unless they’re too busy.
It did pass by two votes, 217 - 213. :smack:
Damn. I was already writing the campaign ads!
I’m sure that this was by design for just this reason, by the way.
I have not been as enraged as I am today since the nightmare SCOTUS case King v. Burwell was still percolating in the ether. My clown of a rep. (Calvert) voted for this monstrosity.
This is absolutely barbaric. We may seriously be looking at the possibility of the U.S. becoming the first country in history to have enacted a (nearly) universal healthcare system and then dismantled it. American Exceptionalism folks, and it’s all built atop a GOP that lies about what the AHCA does and a president who has no fucking idea what’s in his bill.
One of the things that I think we really ought to start talking about is the extent to which Trumpcare has the potential to radicalize and galvanize the left, pushing Democrats to enact much more liberal health care reforms the next time they control the federal government. If the GOP takes down the ACA - which, for the zillionth time, was the Republicans’ idea in the first place - then single payer, or at least a robust public option, is all that’s left to pursue.
Doesn’t matter. That’s an entirely separate bill that requires 60 votes in the Senate. It isn’t going anywhere.
Yep. The bill they voted on exempts Congress. That’s what those members voted for, and it will be used against them.
feels like it matters 
hope so
They wouldn’t have any problem passing it, no matter how many votes it required. This is a non-story.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/obamacare-repeal-bill-republicans-do-not-like-237982
NO it not good enough b/c the GOP don’t even like their damn fucking health bill ! So why should people like it !!!
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The House Republicans are flying home to bask in the loving approval of their constituents. Interesting times.
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You would be correct. They refused to bring it to a vote until they had the guarantee of 217 votes. Now, no specific representative can be accused of having been THE one who passed it.
That means they’re all to blame!
Hold everything - It’s all OK - My President says that nobody will loose their health care and premiums will go down and everybody will have access to great health care…so good, so good.
It has to be true cause my President said it and I saw it on TV.
Crane
Hmmm… I’m not calling it a tradition until we get 3 in a row saying it…
And this was far grumpier than it should have been. My apologies.
I called Representative Pearce’s office and asked about yesterday’s phone calls:
90% against
10% for
Even his closed town hall phone session only gave the House Health Care Bill 66% thumbs up.
So much for representative government.
Crane
THIS is one of the reasons I’m so pissed off. If I really thought that most Americans wanted to go back to the way things were before the ACA I’d still be pissed, but at a different set of people for different reasons. And maybe not so much as for me personally the changes are value neutral, my already expensive insurance would go way up because I’m in that sweet spot 60 and 65 but my company would effectively cover half the increase and tax credits will cover the rest of the increase.
But I’m pissed that not ONE Republican lawmaker came out and said --" Mr President, my constituents voted for you based on your promises and THIS comes nowhere close to what you promised." There are so many threads on the subject that I wish I could cross post, but as I said the the GD thread, the sheer dishonesty around the passing of this bill is really what infuriates me.