MitchCare Collapses

Senator Mitch McConnell’s plan to pass a bill that keeps some of the worst parts of Obamacare has failed. It’s an embarrassing defeat for someone who portrays himself as a strategic genius.

After writing several versions of virtually the same flawed bill, McConnell signaled defeat yesterday by announcing that the Senate not vote on his bill, but will instead vote on the repeal bill that Republicans passed in 2015 and sent to President Obama’s desk.

This is a significant victory for conservatives that opens the door to answering President Trump’s call to repeal Obamacare first and then pass additional reforms later, if necessary.

But conservatives must remain engaged because the debate is not over and Senator McConnell and other liberal Republicans will likely offer amendments to rescue the worst parts of Obamacare.

We know they want to keep the regulations, some of the tax increases, the subsidies, and the insurance company bailout payments.

Please send an instant message to all 52 Senate Republicans urging them to pass full repeal of Obamacare.

Also, conservatives should be fully aware that McConnell is actually trying to kill repeal altogether. The coming debate is yet another production of “Failure Theater” where he will pretend to be working to pass something good when in truth he wants and intends for it to fail so he can move on to something else. Even worse, he will be looking for ways to blame conservatives for his own failure.

In this case, McConnell has already said that he’s open to cutting a deal with the Democrats to bail out the failed law, which is exactly what moderate Republicans want because it gives them political cover. Because of McConnell’s failed leadership, these moderate Republicans have no incentive to repeal Obamacare outside of the pressure that you put on them.

Conservatives have won the initial battle to stop McConnell from passing a bill that continues Obamacare, but the war for repeal is not even close to being over.

Please contact Senate Republicans and urge them to repeal the law first and pass any other reforms later.

This is what they promised to do and this is what will help improve our health care system.