Senate GOP plots plan B for ObamaCare

The Hill ^ | 1/27/15 | Alexander Bolton

[Libloather]

Didn't the RATS run on 'fixing' Husseincare?

[Logical me]

Don’t rely on feeling that the Supreme Court will rule in favor or the law. This group of lawless fools wouldn’t know the difference between saving America or further putting it down the crap hole.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The GOPe can ruin our health care / insurance industry better than the democrats can ruin our health care / insurance industry.

[LS]

Utterly speechless. They are going to try to fix this socialist piece of crap.

[eyeamok]

Plan B:
Call the President, it’s HIS PLAN

[Timber Rattler]

Alexander said the guiding principle is to let people keep their health insurance plans if they like them, but it may not be an easy task if the federal government is barred from providing subsidies in some states.

He said if people decide to keep the plan they have, they would have to pay for it.

“If they couldn’t afford it, then they could go to a different, less expensive policy that they could afford,” he said.

(Exempt) Alexander is as dense as a load of bricks. Those less expensive policies have ridiculous deductibles and few providers in their networks. It is an enormous mess!

[moovova]

GOPe sez...

“The Democrats can’t do subsidies like we can do subsidies. We gonna buy us some 2016 votes.”

[AmusedBystander]

It’s too late to fix anything. We have eaten our seed corn and now that the insurance companies are now government cronies addicted to the public teat there will be no going back to the way things were.

[Pollster1]

I hope the GOP is not planning treason. Obamacare is the most deadly law ever passed in this country and must be killed by any means necessary. They cannot be forgiven if they fund this. The correct answer is to pass a bill forbidding any illegal payments for Obamacare subsidies and repealing the individual and corporate requirements to participate in Obamacare. The communist in our White House cannot veto a bill that exempts people who cannot afford Obamacare, and that exemption would kill this terrible law.

If the GOPe does anything to keep Obamacare on life support, it’s time to give up on restoring freedom through the ballot box. At that point, this could get ugly.

[VerySadAmerican]

This is what we get when we’re loyal to a party that’s not loyal to us.

[LS]

I don’t make threats in haste or insincerely. But if they do this, I’m unregistered a a Republican immediately, and I suspect it would end the party within two years, tops.

[Political Junkie Too]

He said Republicans must be ready to put forth their own ideas for dealing with people who are stripped of subsidies once the court rules. “It does mean that we’ll have to resolve the problems that result from that. I don’t think there’s going to be a simple one-page amendment to resolve it,” he said.

Why? There is no "problem."

The law gave the states an option, and only a few states took up that option. Was that a "problem" to be fixed?

Since when is states exercising their sovereign powers a "problem" to be fixed?

Why not just leave it to the states to solve for themselves? Either that, or just repeal the whole thing.

-PJ

[txhurl]

Contrast Cruz’ Repeal Every Word to Joni Ernst’s SOTU Repeal And Replace.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Ohhhhhh, I’m a shakin’ with anticipation!

[TribalPrincess2U]

0bama takes everything started by someone else and runs it to hell.

[Pining_4_TX]

The problem is that Republican governors will be accused of wanting the poor to die, etc. because they are failing to help those who lose their O-care subsidies. Unfortunately, the tactic will probably work. Republicans are scared to death of being called mean.

The only real solution to health care and insurance is complete freedom to buy whatever kind of health insurance you want or none at all. We need less insurance and government out of health care if we want cost to go down and quality and access to increase. For decades, government has been taking over both insurance and health care by mandates on what must be covered and being the main payer via Medicare and Medicaid.

I don’t see good sense prevailing, and I would not be surprised to see the socialists get their dream of a single-payer, government-run system become a reality.

[Major Matt Mason]

Sorry, but the usual suspects from the GOP that are quoted in this article does not inspire confidence. Will Obama veto a full repeal? Yes. Should they make him veto it? Absolutely, put him on record as being the obstructionist. The problem, of course, is that the GOP's heart won't be set on doing this, and therefore they won't go on the offensive to put pressure on Obama. Such is the way of losers.

[Osage Orange]

I've near zero confidence in the GOPe....

No money from me....

[COBOL2Java]

This is what we get when we’re loyal to a party that’s not loyal to us.

Yep. We tried telling people, and were pilloried for it.

[Political Junkie Too]

The only only reason that those accusations continue to work is that Republicans let them. They refuse to fight back. They give up at the first sign of resistance. Heck, they make up in their minds all sorts of supposed resistance and then act as if the worst has already happened.

If the Republicans would just engage, they might find that reality is different from their nightmares.

-PJ