Senator Rand Paul Supports Stand Alone Bill Repealing The ACA…

On this Kentucky Senator  Rand Paul is just another libertarian dunderhead. Repeal without a replacement first makes about as much sense as jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

Not that the republican establishment’s replacement plan is a good one mind you.

Rand Paul is not backing down.

Hours after President Donald Trump exhorted the Kentucky senator to get behind his Obamacare replacement plan, Paul reiterated his opposition in an interview with POLITICO.

“Republicans across the country are unified on repeal, not on replace,” Paul said Wednesday morning, after Trump singled him out in a tweet. The libertarian-leaning lawmaker insisted that Republicans should vote on stand-alone legislation to repeal the Democratic health care law and figure out later what would replace it. He said he told the president as much in a telephone conversation Monday.

“The compromise that I … have represented to him is to separate the bill into two separate bills,” Paul said.

Trump’s targeting of Paul was a gift for Republican leaders trying to shepherd their health care legislation through Congress… (MORE HERE)

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5 thoughts on “Senator Rand Paul Supports Stand Alone Bill Repealing The ACA…”

  1. Yeah, he’s got Mike Lee and Ted Cruz to get on board. I heard he’s having dinner with Cruz tonight(?) – wives and all! Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on THAT wall?!? LOL!

    JMJ

      1. Looks like Cruz and wife are dining at the White House tonight.

        Now THAT would be REALLY interesting for a fly on the wall!

  2. Repeal without a replacement IS what a Libertarian would support. Dunderheadedness is the Libertarian way. As for “repeal and replace”, it worked well for them as a slogan. Actually agreeing on a replacement will be a lot harder. The recently unveiled “American Health Care Act” appears as though it is DOA. It doesn’t hurt poor people ENOUGH to get the needed GOP votes to pass. That, and it keeps popular provisions (preexisting conditions OK, stay on parents insurance until 26) yet it gets rid of everything that paid for those provisions.

    1. ACA Light is the repub plan.

      I’ll stay with my brand of libertarianism. Rational smal L libertarianism light.

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