Posted on 02/04/2015 8:58:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Three House Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday in voting against a bill that would repeal President Obama’s health care law.
Illinois Rep. Robert Dold, New York Rep. John Katko and Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin all voted against the legislation which guts Obamacare while calling for a conservative replacement.
“Casting yet another symbolic vote for full repeal of the law, without any replacement legislation, simply distracts us from the work that must be done to drive costs down, restore access to care and make healthcare work for everyone,” Dold said after the vote.
Added the congressman: “The people of the 10th district sent me to Congress to advance solutions, not sound bites, to the problems we face.”
Katko and Poliquin were elected to Congress in 2014. Dold was re-elected in 2014, after losing his seat in 2012.
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Gee, I wonder if Boner will pull them off their committees as punishment? /sarcasm
Repeal would drive costs down and restore care for many. I don’t buy their excuse.
I understand the legislation will likely go nowhere (or perhaps it will), but there’s something to be said for presenting a 100% show of strength as a party.
Repealing without an immediate replacement would create a HUGH and SERIES vacuum that the FedGov would be happy to step in and provide - in the form of single payer. Likewise if the SCOTUS strikes it down this June. Single payer will be the fast & dirty answer, but that has been the goal all along.
The House has already voted for repeal at least 37 times I believe.
SEE HERE:
Everytime, it died in Senate.
This time it will die by veto.
These are Blue State guys (IL, NY and Maine). They try and walk the line between to preserve reelection in otherwise liberal districts. They might as well be Democrats.
Cut their heads off.
“The people of the 10th district sent me to Congress to advance solutions, not sound bites, to the problems we face.”
Sadly, there are no solutions to these worldly problems, only difficult tradeoffs. Washington’s attempts to solve problems are bankrupting the country, yet the problems persist and worsen.
The 3 are saving Boehner’s investments in ObamaCARE
companies.
Congress has acted illegally by passing TAXES for
all others except themselves and Moslems.
If they don’t like the lack of a plan, create one, or they need to admit they are brain dead.
Just don’t be a road block.
“Casting yet another symbolic vote for full repeal of the law, without any replacement legislation, simply distracts us from the work that must be done to drive costs down, restore access to care and make healthcare work for everyone,” Dold said after the vote.
LOL! I get the joke now!
... The GOP has had YEARS to come up with/offer an alternate plan. But they haven’t done that in any serious way. If they have an alternate plan they are incredibly quiet about it.
The joke is... THEY WANT BARRYCARE!!!!
Welcome to the Republicrat Party!
Illinois, New York and Maine. The RINOs RINOs.
Die by filibuster. It'll never see Obama's desk.
3 Reps to face recall elections.
If government insurance isn’t a mandate, insurance companies and walk-in clinics at drug stores will quickly fill the void with policies and options that make sense. There might be some pain in the transition, but not as much pain as Obamacare is causing.
Not quickly enough, and for the same reason that insurance companies mostly did not continue offering their previous plans once obola said they could bring them back. In truth, it cost insurance companies millions of $$$ and several years to prepare for the transition into obolacare - it WON'T just go back to normal or any semblance of normal overnight. FedGov will be there to take up the slack - specifically with the millions of Medicaid patients and those who were previously uninsured due to pre-existing conditions, and to the millions who receive thousands of dollars in subsidies. These will be the problem children, private carriers will not pick them back up if not required to do so, and so the FedGov WILL step in to provide single payer for all. Watch. It's going to happen. That was the goal from the beginning. Obolacare was never meant to inure people. It was never intended to actually work. It was simply the transitional plan into single payer. That IS where we're headed.
Yep.
They agree wholeheartedly with using the state to impose rules/regulation/taxes to control our lives.
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