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In reply to the discussion: Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada [View all]Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)contributions vis a vis the loss of voting support and come to the conclusion that they have little to lose given the level of the blueness of their state. It is not like Democratic voting people who are justifiably enraged on this one issue are going to go and switch votes in sufficient numbers to give a Repug the seat. They know a Uglican will be even worse. The only way to really affect the sitting Dems voting on lobbyist-greased issues is to primary them. Good luck with that.
It is so frustrating to see overall good members of Congress so often fold to the biggest of big money lobbies. There is simply no way to make the numbers work for any replacement programme for the ACA that doesn't include dramatic reductions in overhead, which this Amendment would have been a piece of the puzzle. I truly fear that mandated coverage for pre existing conditions are going to jettisoned very soon. The insurance companies only bought into the ACA and accepted pre existing condition coverage because of the universal mandatory purchasing of coverage mandate, and THAT requirement is definitely going to be erased by the Rethugs, as well as the extra tax on the very well off. They have no intention of replacing the ACA with anything that will help the most vulnerable. Millions are going to die earlier than they ever would under a genuine universal health care plan.