<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that he is abandoning efforts to immediately replace Obamacare and instead, will seek to repeal it first. The replacement will be delayed until the 2018 mid-term election.</p>
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<p>McConnell said that &#8220;regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful.&#8221;</p>
<p>A group of Republicans senators including Mike Lee, Jerry Moran, Rand Paul and Susan Collins publicly opposed McConnell&#8217;s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare immediately saying the new policy was rushed and that it should be openly discussed by the Senate with hearings.</p></div>
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<p>&ldquo;We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy,&rdquo; tweeted Moran. ;</p>
<p>This ended any chance of the bill being passed in the Senate. ;</p>
<p>So now McConnell is making just the quick repeal his priority for now. ;</p>
<p>&#8220;So, in the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period to a patient-centered health care system that gives Americans access to quality, affordable care,&#8221; said McConnell. ;</p>
<p>President Donald Trump tweeted that he thought it was time to start from a &#8220;clean slate.&#8221; ;</p>
<p>&#8220;Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now &; work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!&#8221; tweeted Trump late Monday.</p></div>
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<div>However, Democrats were quick to call this a failure. ;</div>
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<p>&#8220;This second failure of Trumpcare is proof positive that the core of this bill is unworkable,&#8221; said Chuck Schumer, ;Senate minority leader ; ;&#8220;Rather than repeating the same failed, partisan process yet again, Republicans should start from scratch and work with Democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long term stability to the markets and improves our health care system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even with removing the replacement policy from the equation, getting Obamacare repealed won&#8217;t be easy. ;</p>
<p>&#8220;McConnell will need to overcome procedural hurdles if he wants the Senate to get to a vote on a repeal-only proposal. He&#8217;ll need at least 50 senators to support getting on the House-passed legislation, which is being used as a vehicle for any Senate action,&#8221; writes ;<em>The Hill. ;</em></p>
<p>&#8220;And separating the two could force Republicans to get 60 votes &#8212; and the support of Democrats ;&#8212; on the replacement legislation. ;It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear when the Senate would try to pass the repeal legislation. The upper chamber is expected to be in session until ;Aug. 11, when members will leave town until early ;September.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. John McCain said that he doesn&#8217;t want lawmakers to repeat the Democrat&#8217;s mistake of passing Obamacare without input from both parties. ;</p></div>
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<p>&ldquo;The Congress must now ;return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the ;recommendations of our nation&#8217;s governors ;so that we can produce a bill that finally provides Americans with access to quality and affordable health care,&#8221; said McCain. ;</p>
<p>The 2015 repeal bill was passed in the Senate 52-47, but was then vetoed by former President Barack Obama. This year the proposal has received less support so far. But several think that will change considering recent developments.</p></div>
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<p>&ldquo;Expect growing calls from conservatives for Congress to take up full repeal bill that passed under Obama,&rdquo; tweeted Alyssa Farah, a spokeswoman for the conservative House Freedom Caucus.</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s note: ;</strong>Obamacare has proven to be a complete failure. It&#8217;s time to stop the bleeding and let the GOP come up with a much better solution in open hearings. ;</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> ; I always thought it was a better idea to repeal Obamacare first. With all of the arguments about pre-existing conditions and people losing their coverage, it did not seem they were working toward a program to allow prices to fall.  ;Here at Punchingbag Media, we have a plan, see below.</p>
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