Posted on 01/20/2011 3:37:28 AM PST by tobyhill
One day after voting to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark expansion of health insurance coverage, House Republicans go to work on replacing it.
Out with mandates, the requirements in the law to carry health insurance coverage. In with special purchasing pools for people whose medical conditions render them uninsurable.
Out with cuts to Medicare Advantage, the private alternative to the traditional health program for seniors and disabled people. In with limits to jury awards in medical malpractice cases and stricter restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions.
The House will vote Thursday on a measure directing four committees — Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Education and Workforce, and Judiciary — to work out the Republican vision for health care.
Like the repeal bill itself, the "replace" part would require the acquiescence of the Senate. Democrats still in charge there say they plan to simply ignore the House. The prospect is for months of maneuvering.
Meantime, lawsuits by more than half the states challenging the constitutionality of the law are advancing through the federal courts.
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Senate Democrats can ignore Republican bills but they can’t force the House to fund Obamacare. Game, set and match.
F*ck you, Dingy Harry!
We can kill every bill the senate sends to the house just as easily as they can kill anything we send to them. Kill this bill or be prepared for the government to shut down Harry.
Yup. It works both ways. The Democrats will see Obama’s agenda die in the House.
I think Republicans should take the part of Obamacare that Americans hate the most, the individual mandate, and attach a repeal of it to some “must pass” popular peice of legislation. Then force Obama to either sign it and kill Obamacare (without the individual mandate, Obamacare essentially becomes voluntary), or veto it and try to defend something that over 70% of the public hates.
The people spoke last November. The Democrats are the “party of no” now if they refuse to listen.
Pray that the party finds some balls.
I know of some in AK.
House Republicans go to work on replacing it.
What do they mean replacing it? We dont want universal healthcare any shape or form.
If the republicans can’t do a health care bill in less than 100 pages I may be reluctant to listen. That gives them 100 points of light, with a page each. Shouldn’t that be as possible, as the 2000 pages of unread legalize that has been shoved down the throats of the American people?
House Republicans go to work on replacing it.
You have a point except for the largely ignored idea that the present system is bankrupting the country, and is unsustainable. If true, it puts the republicans in another “tricky” situation. So what else is new.
Huh? The repeal bill was just two pages long! Every one knows what’s in it.
Simple and straight. The Democrats purposely try to confuse the issue. Its simple: Obamacare is unconstitutional and Congress has a duty to remove a law that conflicts with the Constitution.
And then there’s public opinion. The House is on the side of the American people on this one.
Even GOP health care plans would retain the politically attractive features of the Democrats’ law. But the taxes, the individual mandate, the fines, all that stuff is going to be taken out. Let’s see the Democrats vote not to fix their own law. Its gonna cost them big time in 2012 if they don’t.
Just put it in a jobs bill.
It should been titled “The Shovel Ready Health Care Act.” That would have flummoxed the Democrats!
According to my insurer, "no life time limits" is also in effect now.
Mine had a $5 mil limit prior.
Huh? The repeal bill was just two pages long! Every one knows what’s in it.
One day after voting to repeal President Barack Obama’s landmark expansion of health insurance coverage, House Republicans go to work on replacing it.
I’m obviously not talking about the repeal bill, but the “work” to replace it.
Perhaps I wasn’t so obvious?
...or goldstate has a quick trigger finger. No pun, or violence intended.
Yup. It won’t matter. Insurance companies won’t just market those policies and the federal government can’t force them to. And such people are going to go into government high risk pools - no wait, they already are! Obamacare hasn’t given any one health care access they don’t already have.
It’s not enough to simply kill Obamacare. The House must offer alternatives very, very soon. OR, the moderates will not support them.
As far as the Senate, the repeal bill will be filibustered before a vote is made. NO dem senator will allow a bill to reach the President’s desk (even if they voted in favor), and will fall on the sword before they let that happen.
They can’t let Obama suffer the embarrassment of a bill reaching his desk, and having to veto.
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