Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, on Monday, March 27, introduced the following one-sentence bill in the House of Representatives: "Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted".

Naturally, it went straight into the Congressional trash can.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/14850/congressman-just-humiliated-speaker-ryan-filing-ben-shapiro?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=032817-news&utm_campaign=position3

CounterRevolutionary

Larry the Legend, actually, this article you referenced is inaccurate:

"Naturally, the bill didn’t come up for a vote. If it had, it would have gone down to failure, since Republicans don’t have the intestinal fortitude to keep the key promise that brought them to power over the past seven years. Even if it had passed the House, it surely wouldn’t have passed the Senate. And even if it had passed the Senate, it certainly would have been vetoed by President Trump, who would never sign onto a repeal of Obamacare without retaining that law’s key elements."

The entire Obamacare can be repealed and replaced in a heartbeat, says the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, who advised Senator Mike Lee of Utah that even the 2000 pages of regulations, along with the taxes and full text of the ACA can be repealed and replaced under the Budget Reconciliation Act. Nobody even consulted Ms. Elizabeth until the midnight hour:

Interview with Senator Mike Lee of Utah.
Senate Parliamentarian Seems Open to Robust Obamacare Repeal
by Deroy Murdock March 23, 2017
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446034/obamacare-repeal-senate-parliamentarian-rules-allow-house-republicans

Dr. Rand Paul’s Obamacare Replacement Act, S. 222:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/press/dr-rand-paul-unveils-obamacare-replacement-act

I heard about this fiasco last Saturday afternoon (3/25/2017) on the Larry Kudlow Show, 77WABC talk radio.
You wouldn't be the infamous Mr. Larry Kudlow, the monetary consultant to Ronald Reagan, now would you?

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

I wrote about Dr. Paul's efforts over a week ago, right here:

http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-98166-1.html



I'm taking the fifth on that one...

CounterRevolutionary

So, here's the question, Larry: Why wasn't a good conservative bill advanced that would fully repeal and replace Obamacare passed through the House and Senate in one fell swoop if the Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth Macdonough would have permitted it under the Reconciliation Act?

We did not need that 3 step plan of Speaker Ryan's. We could have HSAs and opened interstate commerce across all 50 state lines within a month. I think the big insurance companies wanted a hidden bailout by extending this remake of Obamacare for another year.

Let us pass House Rep. Peter DeFazio's bill ending health insurance companies exemption from the anti-trust laws and price fixing. Let us break up these monstrous health insurance companies into "Baby Bells" so the consumer has real choices coupled with our HSAs.