The Repugnican Party Trying to Destroy the Affordable Healthcare Act again! See how they hate Americans?!!? They use OUR money to pay their own healthcare bills, ALL of their personal bills, but we can't use some to help us pay our Healthcare bills! Who voted for these worthless dogs?

See everyone wants to spew on trump but look here. It's the repugnican party again. Now they're trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act. Now everyone who voted republican need to kick themselves for the repugnicans have been trying to take away your healthcare even before trump came on the scene! They are the most loathesome group ever. It needs to be against the law for anyone to be repugnican trash for they are America's taliban! The worst group of organized crime bosses ever!

The faces of pure evil! Gonna destroy this country and gonna' run like rabbits when the end comes. The king will hunt them down though and bring these devils back to face justice!!!!

Republicans deny Trump one last chance at a 100-day victory and punt on healthcare again

Bob Bryan

Business InsiderApril 28, 2017

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(Getty Images/Pool) After drawing conservative Republicans on board to the American Health Care Act, Republican leadership was unable to garner enough support to bring the bill to the floor this week. 

An amendment released Tuesday night, authored by moderate Rep. Tom MacArthur, appeared to placate conservatives who did not think the original AHCA went far enough in its repeal of Obamacare. But pushback from moderates has seemed to to have stalled the bill for now.

The White House had pushed for the vote to happen on Friday or Saturday — making a last-minute play for a signature legislative win in President Donald Trump's first 100 days — but House leadership announced Thursday night a vote would not happen until next week at the earliest.

The push for a new vote came after the MacArthur amendment was released. New provisions would allow states to apply for a waiver that would exempt their insurance markets from certain regulations created by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if they can prove it would bring down costs.

The waiver, health policy experts argue, could have negative consequences for people with preexisting conditions and allow insurers to offer plans that cover fewer health needs.

(Read more about the amendment here»)

The tweak was enough to get the conservative House Freedom Caucus officially on board with the bill, which could mean support from roughly 20 members who were against the original AHCA.

But the amendment may have alienated more moderate members of the Republican caucus and could leave the AHCA short of the votes it needs to pass. Only 22 GOP members can vote against the bill for it pass through the Republican-controlled chamber.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Thursday night that a vote would not happen Friday.

"We've been educating people on healthcare," McCarthy said. "It's not tomorrow. I never said it was going to be tomorrow. We are not voting on healthcare tomorrow."

He also told reporters no vote would happen on Saturday, either.

MacArthur, the author of the amendment and a co-chair of the Tuesday Group, admitted to reporters earlier on Thursday that the Republican conference did not currently have enough votes.

Members of the House GOP conference that originally said they would vote "yes" have now expressed doubts over the amendment. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said "there are a lot of red flags" in the legislation and that he was undecided on Thursday — he was a yes on the first version of the AHCA. According to HuffPost congressional reporter Matt Fuller's count, there are 17 Republicans against the bill, 10 leaning "no," and 11 undecided.

Also complicating a vote on the bill was the insistence of Democrats that they would oppose a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown if the GOP brought the AHCA to the floor at the same time.

The White House had sought to apply pressure ahead of the 100-day mark in Trump's administration. Mick Mulvaney, the Office of and Management and Budget director, told CNBC on Thursday that he was "still holding out" for a vote on Saturday (Trump's 100th day).

House Speaker Paul Ryan has repeatedly said leadership will not bring the legislation to the floor until "we have the votes."

Passing the AHCA through the House represent a significant hurdle cleared, but it would also lead to new challenges.

Several Republican senators have expressed serious doubts about the AHCA. And since Republicans are attempting to move the healthcare bill through the budget reconciliation process, there have been questions whether the bill would even qualify under the Senate rules.