Posted on 01/19/2011 1:59:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to honor their campaign pledge, Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation's year-old health care law toward House passage Wednesday despite implacable opposition in the Senate and a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
Passage would clear the way for the second phase of the "repeal and replace" promise that victorious Republicans made to the voters last fall. GOP officials said that in the coming months, congressional committees will propose changes to the existing legislation, calling for elimination of a requirement for individuals to purchase coverage, for example, and recommending curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits.
Republicans also intend to try to reverse many of the changes Democrats made to Medicare Advantage, the private alternative to the traditional government-run health care program for seniors.
Like the repeal bill itself, these other measures will require Senate approval and a presidential signature to take effect, and the prospect is for months of maneuvering on the issue.
For many first-term Republican lawmakers, this day was one they had long waited for, a chance to speak and then vote on the House floor against a bill they had campaigned for months to repeal.
Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C. said the legislation produced by Obama and congressional Democrats was a "job-killing, socialistic" approach to health care. Rep. Frank Guinta of New Hampshire, who defeated a Democratic incumbent last fall, said it was misguided, needing repeal.
"The American people have soundly, soundly rejected the Democrats' government takeover of health care," said Rep. Sandy Adams of Florida. Rep. Steve Southerland, also of Florida, said the law imposes a crushing tax burden on businesses, and he predicted "1.6 million jobs will be lost by 2014 due to this mandate" to require many businesses to provide coverage for employees.
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It will pass. Harry Reid won’t allow it to come up with a vote in the Senate later. He won’t allow it to come up for a vote because Democrat Senators are begging him not to make them go on the record on this issue.
When I was in college, my parents bought a reasonably-priced health coverage plan thru the University medical center. Why can't these parents do the same?
The Senate is where things will start to get fun.
There are a LOT of democrap senators up for re-election this time around. More than enough to EASILY take control on this issue.
KEEP THEM ON THE DEFENSIVE ON THIS
Exactly; and that's just what I posted yesterday.
This has ZERO chance of making it to the Floor of the Senate (Reid won't let it happen), and, in the meantime, they are gonna try and remove the Fillibuster rules to protect their ability to pass EVEN MORE Socialist policy before the Senate loses their Progressive Majority in 2012....count on it.
P.S. For those who will reply with "the Republicans in the House won't fund it" as they are the Majority in the House....that's great; but once a Law is on the books, it's nearly impossible to remove it, and sooner or later, enough RINO's will be bought off such that funding will be Amended to include spending to buy passage from those who will cave and vote to fund....
The Republicans in the House can be as productive as they want; it won't help when anything goes to the Senate to die, as it will in every case. NOTHING is going to change until 2012, at the earliest, unless the Courts find the balls to intervene on Constitutional-ground reasons, for Obamacare and other over-reaches of the 111th Proleteriat.
Just set up some new rules in the House. Say that anything that passes in the house this week is deemed to be passed in the Senate and also signed into law by the president.
There. That’s how the dems would handle it.
"Eager to honor their campaign pledge,"
Notice how the repeal isn't about deeply held convictions on the GOP side, or about cutting the size of government, or even "sticking to their guns"...in the eyes of the AP, the Commiecare repeal is about a "campaign pledge". In other words, they're trying to paint the repeal effort as merely something that the Pubbies said to get elected, not something they believe in wholeheartedly.
Sheesh...I hate the AP.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“In one of the most animated speeches of two days of debate, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., said repeal would return power to insurance companies. “Has anybody, any family in America, any single mother, any spouse, any child, any grandparent met a more bureaucratic system than the American health insurance system? There is no more bureaucratic system.”
The scary thing about this is that Some people agree, and believe the government bureaucratic system will be better.
In years past, I always felt a "Do-Nothing Congress" was a good thing.
With all the Socialist Agenda shoved up our asses in the last 6 years, doing nothing is not an option now.
Yes, defunding is a good thing, but if the government shuts down, and Social Security checks stop, and entitlements to the Great Un-washed are stopped, there will be rioting in the streets reminiscent of Watts and Detroit, etc.
On C-Spin right now. Three RATS have voted yes so far.
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