https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-wont-vote-on-health-care-tax-credit-extension-angering-gop-moderates/Washington — The House won't vote this week on an extension to the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium subsidies, which lapse at the end of the year. An 11th-hour effort by moderate Republicans to put an extension on the floor for a vote failed Tuesday night, when the House Rules Committee blocked several of the amendments they were seeking to the attach to a GOP health care plan released last week. The GOP plan does not include an extension.The committee advanced the bill to the floor late Tuesday. A vote is expected Wednesday.Moderate Republicans are perplexed at the decision not to hold a vote on an extension ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline, and have warned of the political ramifications of allowing insurance premiums to soar in the new year for more than 20 million Americans who buy their insurance on Affordable Care Act marketplaces.House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to shut the door on any amendment votes earlier Tuesday, only to open it slightly after a heated meeting with moderates. "We looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure-release valve, and it just was not to be. We worked on it all the way through the weekend," Johnson told reporters Tuesday morning. The Louisiana Republican later said "there's some ideas on the table that could work."Moderate Republicans expressed their frustration throughout the day. "I am pissed for the American people. This is absolute bulls--t," Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York told reporters after leaving a GOP conference meeting Tuesday morning.
Lawler called it a "tremendous mistake" not to address the expiring tax credits. "The Democrats want to use this as an issue in the election, and seemingly the Republican leadership is going to allow them to do it. And it's idiotic," he said.He urged all Democrats to sign on to two bipartisan discharge petitions to force votes on legislation to extend the tax credits for one to two years with reforms. But even if the discharge petitions hit the 218-signature threshold needed to force a vote in the coming days, there's a waiting period of seven legislative days before a member can call it up to the floor. The House's last day in session this year is Friday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, has said that Republicans should offer up the votes on a Democratic discharge petition to extend the tax credits for three years without reforms. It needs to secure the support of four Republicans to force a vote. GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley of California said he hasn't ruled out supporting Democrats' discharge petition. "We waited until the very end of the year to just kind of hastily throw together some narrow package to try to make it look like something's being done about health care when this bill is likely not going to become law and it doesn't address the immediate crisis in front of us, or 22 million people," he said of the GOP plan. During Tuesday's Rules Committee meeting, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania said the only thing worse than an extension without any reforms is no extension at all.
Remember when they said "eh, we'll vote for it at the end of the year, just push this """clean"""" CR (with kickbacks for specific individual Republican Congressmen and also a complete ban on hemp) and we pinkie promise to vote on it in December"?Unfortunately their voters probably won't.
>>1466505>Unfortunately their voters probably won't.Oh they will. Hard to deflect blame when you control all 3 branches.
>>1466506Are you kidding? Trump is already blaming democrats for the affordability crisis and Epstein and his base believes it.
>>1466505They only promised to hold a vote in the Senate. They did. It failed.Which makes this discharge petition all the more baffling. Republicans in the House outflanking the Senate Republicans to the left just makes the Senate Republicans and the rest of the House Republicans look like absolute shit. The Senate Republicans aren't gonna turn around and vote for the exact same shit they voted down just a few weeks ago, but it making it through the House would means they can't use that it would fail there as an excuse to vote it down as the Dems "playing politics".Republicans in the House backing this shit must be terrified of the blowback this shit is gonna cause. Unfortunately for them, you don't get a prize for being half-wits among total buffoons.
>>1466518This shit is the most confusing own goal. Their voters literally want/NEED this; when their healthcare premiums skyrocket, Republicans are the sole people they're gonna blame. Just in time for midterms too.
>>1466521>Republicans are the sole people they're gonna blameI assume they're going to try and blame Obama/Dems. They wouldn't need Obamacare subsidies if Obamacare weren't shit.And I'm sure some Republicans will believe them, missing the fact that they don't have a more affordable non-Obamacare option cause the whole system is shit and any "solutions" to this shit that don't involve stripping your care down to be functionally worthless are far to the left of anything Republicans would propose.Oh, wait, I know what will fix this shit. Health savings accounts! Lmao.
>>1466525Sure, maybe some of them. But history has proven time and time again whichever party is in charge gets the bulk of the blame when things go to shit regardless of the reason. And Republicans are in charge in every way right now, so they have nothing to hide behind.
>>1466506Blindly loyal people don’t care. They’ll find a way to blame other side.I told my parents my health shot up from $125/month to $389, and they immediately deflected to Biden. These people are hopeless
>>1466528Have you considered its your fault for voting biden? The free money giveaway is what increased prices. But don't worry, Trump is giving away free money to help fix the issue.
>>1466521It's GOP playbook - we're going to solve a problem we created right before midterms. This is the way they're going to push the HSA/FSA accounts instead of subsidies.Guess who's responsible for providing the guidelines of what's a QME under HSA to the IRS? The Dept of HHS. So if the HSA plan goes through, you're going to see companies spring up with all kinds of wacky pseudo-science bullshit that you buy with your HSA money. It'll be just another way to use tax money to line corporate pockets.
>>1466515That's the power of DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender). Also fully controlling the media
Holy fucking shit, they have the votes!
>>1466529>The free money giveaway is what increased prices.No, it isn't. Companies increase prices. That's why the money was given away in the first place, to offset prices being above what people could afford.The moral of the story is this shit shouldn't be fucking privatized like it isn't in most functional fucking countries. Obamacare is just a bandage on an open wound caused by capitalism. Literally any fucking system that involves private interests setting prices for that shit is going to involve them maximizing profits no matter how many people get fucked by getting priced out. The only way to ensure everyone gets care is to ensure prices are scaled to cost, not to demand, which for healthcare is effectively infinite.
>GOP moderateseven the shills don't believe this bullshit. they rode Trump's toilet paper trails into this mess and they are stuck with the stench
>>1466536Healthcare in America could instantly be fixed if the system was first, nationalized meaning all the money leached by insurance companies goes into the system, meaning we save trillions.And the AMA is told to fuck off and the cap on doctors who can be trained is removed so we don't have a shortage. Also breaking up the pseudo monopolies that are forming among healthcare groups as a bonus.
Just a heads up, 4 republican 'moderates' signed on with democrats for a discharge petition forcing vote. How is MAGA Mike still in charge?
>>1466558>How is MAGA Mike still in charge?If you'll recall, he literally only got the job as a placeholder because they couldn't come up with anyone better.
>>1466529The republican option for healthcare is >Dont get sick>but if you, you should die really quickly A lot of people don’t remember that 2 decades ago, insurance companies could just send you away if they thought you were too much of a liability
>>1466501>Johnson goes "hehe, you didn't make a deal with me! No vote!">Four Repubs go rogue>Johnson officially loses control of the House>Dems get what they agreed to anywaysGreat work Repubs
>>1466529Found another one.
>>1466568I remember how butthurt republicans got over that.
