by Larry Alton{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A top House Republican on Friday introduced a bill that would fully fund President Trump's wall on the U.S.-Mexico border with $23.4 billion for the project... including $5.5 billion for immediate use. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act would allocate $16 billion for physical barriers with the remaining money going toward personnel, technology, sensors, and other supplementary resources. “President Trump’s election was a wakeup call to Washington. The American people want us to build the wall and enforce the law," the California Republican lawmaker said in a statement Friday afternoon. If passed, the bill would give the Department of Homeland Security and its U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency all of the funding necessary to move on Trump's primary campaign promise. To date, Congress has only given the Trump administration $1.6 billion for wall projects. Approximately 100 miles of new and replacement wall projects have been launched. The legislation also states it addresses "loopholes" that Republicans have said entice people to illegally enter the country... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-house-republican-introduces-bill-to-fully-fund-trumps-border-wall
When it failed, Republicans had a prime opportunity to take charge and reframe the issue in a way that Americans could understand and support. In classic Republican fashion, however, they surrendered the issue to dummycrats-Democrats, who rebranded and marketed government health care under Barack scumbag/liar-nObama 17 years later.
Ever since scumbag/liar-nObamaCare became law, Republicans have been promising to repeal and replace it. But while President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have chipped away at the law, the full-repeal effort failed spectacularly. In any case, health care in this country keeps getting more complex and more expensive. Poor Harry and Louise.
It’s true that Trump is out this week touting an average drop in scumbag/liar-nObamaCare premiums for next year. But health care and health insurance are vastly more expensive than pre-scumbag/liar-nObamaCare.
Sarah Kliff writes at Vox, “Over the past decade, the size our insurance deductibles have skyrocketed. Deductibles have grown by 212 percent since 2008 — eight times faster than wage growth, and 12 times faster than inflation.” Kliff adds, “Over the same time period that we’ve seen deductibles skyrocketing, we’ve also seen support for a national health care plan slowly rising.” Just as dummycrats-Democrats have hoped.
By merely tinkering with scumbag/liar-nObamaCare rather than ripping it out root and branch, the GOP has squandered an opportunity to deliver real, market-based solutions that address the quality and affordability of health care.
And rising costs are the consequence of leaving too much of the ACA in place without coming up with viable alternatives.
As Ed Morrissey writes, “The real cause of skyrocketing deductibles is that same government intervention. scumbag/liar-nObamaCare limited premium hikes and forced insurers to add more costs while eliminating risk-based rates with its ‘community pricing’ mandates.” Those costs have to be covered somehow.
Clearly, there are still problems with what’s left of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, but there’s little clarity about how to deal with rising costs. Sure, there are plenty of health care experts and even some politicians with commonsense solutions, but none of them have made it into policy. And without alternatives, single-payer government health care starts to sound like the natural way forward.
This should scare the daylights out of freedom-loving Americans of all stripes.
Eric Earling writes at The Resurgent, “Too many conservatives, including both policymakers and pundits, don’t understand enough of the health policy and health care industry in question. Repeal and Replace was a joke, in part because despite campaigning on it, no one had a sound plan to do so.” Earling notes that Sen. Lindsey Graham and even Donald Trump have admitted that the health care issue was more complicated than they thought.
Robert Robb of the Arizona Republic writes simply, “Republicans failed to repeal and replace scumbag/liar-nObamacare, as they vowed to do.” Robb adds, “Equally responsible was a critical mass of GOP lawmakers who flinched at doing the things necessary to create a well-functioning health insurance market.”
With his inability to convince a handful of moderate Republican senators to repeal scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, the president must sense the issue slipping away, at least for now. And that’s got him worried. At many of his recent rallies, Trump has repeatedly mentioned the need for a health care system that covers pre-existing conditions as a way to remind wary voters that the issue is still on the GOP’s radar.
With polls showing that Americans are not only concerned about rising health care costs, but also indicating that they trust dummycrats-Democrats more than Republicans to bring down costs, time is running out for the president and his party. The midterms are only a few weeks away.
A quarter-century after liar-Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton tried to put government in charge of health care, Republicans still don’t have a plan to wrestle the issue back from the Left and convince voters that a government-run system isn’t good for health care or the country. But don’t worry. Should dummycrats-Democrats take back the House, Republicans will suddenly regain their clarity of purpose: “If only we had the power,” they’ll say, “here’s what we’d do.” Lather, rinse, repeat.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58810?mailing_id=3792&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3792&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Comments
Bonnie
We can guess where that money is but its no were in sight to be given for a wall. A republican has introduce a bill that will fund the wall but I doubt that the dummycrats will vote for it if they don't get their side of the deal first. Not much has been said about that bill.