{"id":297537,"date":"2017-03-04T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T07:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amid-republicans-aca-subterfuge-resistance-urges-no-score-no-vote\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T07:48:03","slug":"amid-republicans-aca-subterfuge-resistance-urges-no-score-no-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amid-republicans-aca-subterfuge-resistance-urges-no-score-no-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Republicans' ACA Subterfuge, Resistance Urges "No Score No Vote""},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republicans are under fire for keeping their Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replacement bill secret (from the public and other lawmakers) and are facing calls to wait for an official analysis that would reveal its human and financial costs.<\/p>\n

One Republican and a handful of Democratic lawmakers were forced on Thursday to engage in a hide-and-seek<\/a> for the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s draft of the bill.<\/p>\n

Among those searching for the document was Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)\u2014with his own copy machine in tow. “This is being presented as if it were a national secret, as if it were a plot to invade another country,” Rand said<\/a>. “That’s wrong. It should be done openly in the public. And conservatives who have objections that don’t want Obamacare-lite should be able to see the bill.”<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for her part, declared<\/a> that the committee was shielding it from view because “Republicans are too terrified of their constituents to make their plan to destroy the Affordable Care Act public.” And the ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), who was also leading<\/a> reporters on the hunt for the bill, said<\/a>, “I think they’re afraid it will show that it really doesn’t cover most of the people that received coverage under the Affordable Care Act.”<\/p>\n

As Bloomberg<\/em> wrote<\/a> Wednesday, the bill has yet to be processed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which will provide its analysis or “score.”<\/p>\n

The Hill<\/em> notes<\/a> Friday that<\/p>\n

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Without the CBO analysis, lawmakers would be voting on the measure without estimates of how much the legislation would cost or how many people could lose or gain insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“This is no way in a democracy to consider and shape legislation affecting tens of millions of people with many lives hanging in the balance,” Topher Spiro, vice president for health policy at the Center for American Progress, writes<\/a> Friday<\/p>\n

But even without that score, “We are going to mark up the legislation next week,” according to<\/a> Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. “They say we’ll be there all night. I’m going to bring an air mattress.”<\/p>\n

The maneuvers prompted Indivisible Guide organizers to issue a series of tweets Thursday denouncing the stealth attack and urging constituents to push back by calling on their representatives to demand a CBO score before any congressional action.<\/p>\n

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House GOP is planning to sneak through a plan that repeals the ACA that will mean less coverage, weaker protections and higher costs.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why the top secret approach? They know how bad it is for coverage and cost and that Americans will reject it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We won’t allow them to take away ins away from millions, increase taxes and out-of-pocket costs for working people, and destroy Medicaid.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Stand up and speak out, and ask your Representative to do the same. #noscorenovote<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/G0tPG76FXM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Indivisible Guide and others on Twitter are also using the hashtag #NoSecretPlan to call for greater transparency in the Republicans’ efforts to repeal the healthcare law: #nosecretplan Tweets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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