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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I understand you have no appreciation for free markets.
    Sure. Let's see if the GOP will get behind its own bull$#@!. Free market. Competition. Strip away the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies. Open the healthcare market up to competition.

    It only works if you prosecute anti-competitive behavior, though. The free market will do its job, but you have to make sure the big players are playing by the rules.

    Yes, there are rules in a free market.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nic34 View Post
    Sure. Let's see if the GOP will get behind its own bull$#@!. Free market. Competition. Strip away the anti-trust exemption for insurance companies. Open the healthcare market up to competition.
    It only works if you prosecute anti-competitive behavior, though. The free market will do its job, but you have to make sure the big players are playing by the rules.

    Yes, there are rules in a free market.
    I want the extreme solution. Repeal all of ObamaCare. Promise the Federal government will not intrude nor interfere with the market for health care and health services. The way to end it is to end it.

    If you want something you work for it and you pay for it. Stop plundering your neighbors.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    *update*

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    Quote Originally Posted by nic34 View Post
    Republicans need 215 votes to win passage, meaning they can afford 22 defections. A whip list kept by The Hill shows that five dozen members are either planning to vote no, leaning against the bill or uncertain of how they vote. A full 30 members on that list are no votes.

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    Trump has his ego bruised already now he's desperate.
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    Trump has his ego bruised already now he's desperate.
    You underestimate Trump. At least you are consistent.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Sounds good. I contacted my representative. he rightly stood firm.

    Now let's repeal ObamaCare and promise no more federal interference.
    This is a good thing. It makes no sense to replace bad legislation with equally bad legislation. It would make better sense to just repeal the bad legislation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    Trump has his ego bruised already now he's desperate.
    I don't think he looks at it the same way you do. He fully understands that sometimes you need to negotiate longer and come up with a better plan.

    I know now the political hacks want to paint this as an embarrassment and disaster for the survival of the Trump administration, but that's just partisan babble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    I don't think he looks at it the same way you do. He fully understands that sometimes you need to negotiate longer and come up with a better plan.

    I know now the political hacks want to paint this as an embarrassment and disaster for the survival of the Trump administration, but that's just partisan babble.
    sure, that's why he was threatening retribution if the plan doesn't go through.

    lol

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    What do you know? You're stuck in your partisan hack mind-set. You don't know what to think until Rachel tells you.

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