Posted on 10/10/2015 10:30:30 AM PDT by re_tail20
The president’s health care law is unworkable, and he knows it. That’s why, on Wednesday, he was forced to sign the PACE Act to protect millions of small business workers from higher costs and coverage disruptions under ObamaCare.
Our goal remains to repeal and defund all of ObamaCare – as we’ve voted a number of times to do – and until then we will continue to do everything in our power to protect Americans from the law’s disastrous impact on jobs, the economy, and hard-working families.
Since 2011, the president has now signed at least 10 House bills that dismantle, defund, and repeal parts of his health care law:
H.R. 4: Repealed the small business paperwork (“1099”) mandate: The paperwork mandate was called “one of Washington’s dumbest ideas” – it would have destroyed jobs and “hit start-ups hardest, not to mention farms, charities and churches.” House Republicans kept their Pledge to America and repealed it. H.R. 4 also reduced exchange subsidy overpayments by $25 billion. (Enacted 4/14/11)
H.R. 1473: Cut $2.2 billion from a “stealth public plan” and froze the IRS budget: H.R. 1473 undermined ObamaCare by cutting $2.2 billion from the “Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan” (CO-OP) program – a “stealth public plan.” It saved $400 million by eliminating “Free Choice Vouchers,” which The Hill warned “could lead young, healthy workers to opt out” of their employer plans, “driving up costs for everybody else.” And it ensured the IRS wouldn’t receive additional funding for new agents to enforce the president’s health care law. (Enacted 04/15/2011)
H.R. 674: Saved taxpayers $13 billion by adjusting eligibility for ObamaCare programs: This bill not only repealed a devastating IRS withholding tax – it saved taxpayers $13 billion by changing how the eligibility for certain programs is calculated under ObamaCare. Without the change,...
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Oh? Do tell!
One bite at a time.
The Reps are fools for supporting these bills that make Obamacare more workable. They should not be making these adjustments and hold Obama and the Dems accountable for Obamacare that they pushed thru Congress using legislative tricks and bribes.
What they are doing is "refining" it. They are fixing the worst parts of it so that the centralized control part of it will live on.
Making big government work better is making Marxism more tolerable.
What we need to do is "right-size" the federal government so that it is best able to accomplish it's mandated duties while staying within it's constitutional authority.
The Reps are protecting the elephant with these bills. They are feeding the elephant, not eating it.
Well, that does put a dent in the meme that the House has done nothing’s about the ACA (aka ObamaCare). But HR4 will actually encourage cheating on exchange policies by under-reporting estimated income, getting a nice premium subsidy and only having to pay back a small piece when income is trued up on the tax return.
Ummmm...
Isn’t congress the only ones who are allowed to change an already passed bill? Doesn’t it have to go through the process again?
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle Obama
FUMO
Yes, the legislative tricks come to mind.
Remember the Slaughter House rules which helped pass it?
It’s an appropriate name. Of course it’s named for Louise Slaughter, who was chairman of the House Rules Committee at the time. But we have all been slaughtered by Obamacare in different ways.
Why have the media virtually ignored impacts of Obamacare, such as steep rate increases, and all of paying more for less coverage than before? Why virtually no coverage so far of the Kentucky health plan which is going out of business due to Obamacare?
I think that if you review Obamacare coverage by the media in the past few years, you will see clearly that media bias is at work.
Can you imagine the media reaction, if a Republican president and Congress had passed sweeping legislation of some kind, and that legislation had badly failed to deliver the promised benefits??? Do you think the liberals who run the media would be so silent on analyzing the failings of such legislation, as they have been on Obamacare?????
Stupid. Let Americans feel the full stupidity of Obamacare. And when they do, blame it on Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Nothing less than full repeal.
Don’t mend it, end it!
You are absolutely correct! This is how we got an IRS law that is hundreds of thousands of pages....
Let it die a slow painful death.
Exactly, the headline could read, GOP bailout Obama.
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