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GOP Healthcare Bill Falls Apart... Again

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Channel: The Fowler Show · 2017 · News & Politics

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As the collapse of the GOP health care bill becomes increasingly real, Republicans are shifting from infinite negotiations to another one of Washington’s favorite pastimes: the blame game.

In a demonstration of just how deeply the House GOP conference is divided ― and just how far Republicans are from an agreement ― the question is now less when, or even whether, the House will pass a health care bill; it’s whose fault is it that Republicans won’t.

“That seems to be the permeating question today,” Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee caucus, told The Huffington Post on Wednesday. “It is not the Tuesday Group’s fault.”

Walker, who’s been at the negotiating table in a self-described “big brother” role to help the moderate Tuesday Group and the far-right House Freedom Caucus work out their differences, proceeded to recount a two-hour meeting Tuesday night that ended with no resolution. Walker himself was quickly won over as soon as GOP leadership offered Medicaid work requirements in the health care bill. And with members from both the Tuesday Group and the Freedom Caucus in the roughly 170-member RSC, Walker sees a natural role for himself and the Study Committee to act as mediators.

But even he doesn’t think the Freedom Caucus’ demands, which would essentially eliminate cost protections for people with pre-existing conditions, are reasonable. He called the elimination of so-called community rating, in which all are charged the same for the same coverage, a “tough ask.”

“The Tuesday Group is trying to get there,” Walker said. “I think a good bit of the Freedom Caucus guys are trying to get there. But it just takes a couple in either group to spin this thing sideways.”

As it turns out, there are more than enough members in either camp to derail the bill ― and even though plenty from both groups declined to point the finger, citing how assigning fault would be counterproductive to negotiations, there were Republicans ready to blame their counterparts Wednesday.

For Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), it’s just that moderates don’t want to repeal Obamacare.

Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-fails-blame-game_us_58e57176e4b0917d3477030f?

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