BS. We did it before, we can do it again ...
Posted on 03/27/2015 8:01:43 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he doesn’t think Obamacare is “repealable,” and contends that many of his fellow Republicans don’t really want to walk back the entire law.
The one-time Georgia congressman who often went toe-to-toe with former Democratic President Bill Clinton said parts of the law will be addressed and possibly repealed, but not the entire law. He said the law probably has more support than many Republicans are willing to acknowledge.
“I don’t think it’s repealable,” Gingrich said. His comments were published by USA Today Thursday after he spoke at a Washington health-care conference on Wednesday.
Gingrich, however, was critical of the Affordable Care Act. He said that although he once supported a mandate requiring all individuals to buy insurance, he now is opposed to it, saying it’s too “authoritarian.”
He adds that the number of people added to insurance rolls through Obamacare exchanges is relatively small, compared with the rest of the population, and that a large portion of those now covered under the law came via Medicaid expansions.
“That was always an easy, short-term fix,” he told USA Today’s Jayne O’Donnell in an interview held before those attending the conference. He said the cost to pay for getting many Obamacare recipients is high.
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Remember when a disagreement between Republicans on the budget was “cataclysmic” for GOP claims to governance? Democrats last passed a normal budget resolution six years ago, but Republicans went all of seven days before both chambers finally passed budget resolutions. Our long national nightmare, at least as envisioned by Politico, is over:
The Senate passed a Republican-authored budget plan early on Friday that seeks $5.1 trillion in domestic spending cuts over 10 years while boosting military funding.
The 52-46 vote on the non-binding budget resolution put Congress on a path to complete its first full budget in six years. It came at the end of a marathon 18-hour session that saw approval of dozens of amendments ranging from Iran sanctions to carbon emissions and immigration policies.
The House passed its budget resolution on Wednesday after a similar process of debate and amendment. Some journalists might be unfamiliar with this process after six years of Democratic Party grandstanding under the cataclysmic leadership of Harry Reid, but this is called “regular order” budgeting. Reid’s decision to abandon that process was what led to several years of budgeting by brinksmanship, “fiscal cliffs,” debt-ceiling standoffs, and the like.
In addition to aiming to eliminate deficits within 10 years, both documents seek to ease the path for a repeal or replacement of President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law.
It won't be if you surrender monkeys keep thinking that way.
Loser.
Bush runs through expanding prescription drugs, Obama completes the task of taking over the medical industry. The insurance companies now get to have government backing on their losses (win), the multinational corps get to offload health insurance onto the taxpayers (win), the globalists get to make America just like the rest of the world as far as medical care (win), and the political class gets rewarded for doing what the guys who fund them want. Gingrich is probably right in that they will never repeal it now that they finally rammed it through.
Repeal the thousands of pages with all its unknown passages, replace with minimal version at first that only offers to uninsurable, remove all the mandates and give a timeframe for Obamacare to expire and insurance companies to get back to pre-Obamacare rates, and the majority of damage from this beast will be behind us.
Don’t see why they can’t do that, they managed to come up with a 2,000 page bill to screw up the entire economy with no problem.
I’m waiting for Newt to tell me what Callista thinks about it all.
What’s the old saw, If rape is inevitable lay back and enjoy it.? Smile, the New World Order is upon us.
Many big donors to the GOP can't wait until the "Cadillac tax" kicks in 2018, so they can transfer a much larger portion of their health plan costs to employees.
Many more corporations will find that they can move their employees to Obamacare and come out way ahead, even if they pay the fines.
All others could walk into any emergency room and get treatment, based on Hill Burton legislation.
Newt is wrong about this.
By the way, in his comments Newt is using a classic method used for deception.
I don’t believe Newt is telling the truth about his opinion on the repealability of Obamacare.
The method people use when telling lie is to give two separate and independent justifications.
1) republicans don’t want to repeal it
2) it’s not repealable
Conclusion: Newt is lying.
For a President Cruz to repeal Obamacare would be nothing compared to the overhauls in legislation and otherwise as perpetrated by the current administration.
Take lid off garbage can.
Throw Obamacare into can.
Put lid back on.
Garbagemen carry it away.
I could have told you that when this stupid law was passed. The only thing these SPINELESS WHORES were sorry about is that they didn’t think of it themselves. They’re not against OBAMA CARE, they’re just against the DEMOCRATS running it. They think they can do it better. This is why we need a CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT, a CONSERVATIVE CONGRESS, and a CONSERVATIVE SENATE. We need to rid ourselves of these SPINELESS WHORES PROGRESSIVES in both parties.
I am disillusioned. I'm glad now that he didn't get the nomination because if he'd won and was pulling this crap, I'd be in the position of having voted FOR it and having been warned about it by all those folks who used to warn us about Gingrich's failings.
When people get what they vote for and then complain about it, it is a sign that they don't want to take responsibility for their own actions. I'd have voted FOR Gingrich, and then put in the place of complaining about a pretty serious betrayal of principle.
Man.
The Chamber of Commerce wants Obamacare & amnesty.
We done here.
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