Trump Warns House Republicans: Repeal Health Law or Lose Your Seats

>>35707388
He's not threatening his opposition, he's threatening his comrades because they're a bunch of pieces of shit who don't work for the benefit of the whole.

>>35707430
Interesting use of "comrades." But he's still threatening those of them who are opposing his agenda. Much like... Jesus, I can't believe I'm making comparison... But this is much like the behaviour and assertion that the DPRK is known for. And taking that away, this is not something we should expect from any POTUS. It's these types of behaviours that passing specific powers and rulings over to congress instead is meant to avoid.

>>35707505
>Interesting use of "comrades."
Lol, are you saying this because stereotypical Russians say comrade a lot in movies?

>>35707702
That, and it's associated with a notorious government in twentieth century whose earlier days are starting to look shockingly similar to house right now.

>>35707505
Trump's campaign was not run on traditional conservative values. He has essentially created a new faction on the right that mainly favors populism more than anything else. He's using this as leverage. He has made similar threats in the past to Ted Cruz and John Kasich. Trump also correctly assumes that even given his shitty approval ratings he still has higher ratings than congress as a whole. He could give these guys a real run for their money if he started endorsing primary opponents.

Also this is pretty tame stuff. Presidents are known for holding their popularity over the congress as leverage. That's part of politics. He's just trying to ram this through so he can check off "repeal and replace Obamacare" from his campaign promises.

>>35707816

You're right, it's the conservative republicans who are opposing it.

They want the ACA scrapped completely and not replaced with a modification.

The federal government must be desperate for new tax revenues because there's no way the executive branch will just want to scrap the ACA completely.

Fuck healthcare.

Medical services and medicines are overpriced here. Businesses have the inflation set deep in healthcare for profits because people have no choice but to pay for medical services.

Like how Martin Skhreli can increase the cost of that one pill by over 2000% when it probably costs pennies to produce.

>>35707858
These conservative holdouts usually give in the end. They will vote with their fellow republicans because they don't want to lose elections at home. If they don't vote for it then when it doesn't pass the finger can be pointed at them.

Also I'm sure there's more to the story we're not hearing. I'm sure someone somewhere is offering them concessions for their votes, probably Ryan or Preibus.

I wouldn't have a problem if he literally held the rest of the government at gunpoint.

Fuck the mainstream Republican "conservatives".

>>35707907
>>35707922

Nah son, capitalists bought out all of our medical equipment and drug companies and sell their products and services for 100000000% of the cost it takes to produce it.

The only way to keep the inflated system going is to basically force everyone to have health insurance.

These scary "capitalists" that supposedly run the shadow government are just greedy, no conscience scum that do it because capitalism made it that easy for them to buy companies out and sell their products at exorbitantly increased rates.

Then they turn to black magick arts because of all the guilt they're trying stuff into a tiny box and justify it by basically being teenage edge lords.

The conservatives have it right. The people that forced the ACA are also forcing Donald's new bill too, with provisions but at the core it's the same. It's designed to prop up our inflated medical industry by law at inflated prices because they've bought out all of the major companies and own them.