nytimes update 1hour ago: Senate Leaders Try to Appease Members as Support for Health Bill Slips

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WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill even as opposition continued to build outside Congress and two Republican senators questioned whether the bill would be approved this week.

President Trump expressed confidence that the bill to repeal the guts of the Affordable Care Act would be approved.

“Health care is a very, very tough thing to get,” Mr. Trump said Sunday on the Fox News Channel. “But I think we’re going to get it. We don’t have too much of a choice, because the alternative is the dead carcass of Obamacare.”....

...But the bill’s supporters were battling a dire internal threat: reluctant Republicans. Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said Sunday that “there’s no way we should be voting” on the legislation this week. “No way.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-senate-health-care-bill.html

[tazkcmo]

1. Didn't Paul Simon write a song about this? n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. Does anyone want to take bets?

I say it goes through...hope I'm wrong. I need the ACA to survive (seriously).

[Warpy]

3. The assholes know the cuts won't kick in until 2020

so they don't really care. The Koch boys want them to hold out for even deeper cuts to care and more expense shoved onto the backs of the few people who still have jobs in our jobless booming economy.