Posted on 10/18/2015 6:19:05 PM PDT by Libloather
The chamber of cronies has instructed the uni-party leadership that employers are out of the business of funding healthcare. They expect Obamacare to stay.
A lot of the most obnoxious features of the law aren’t actually in the law, but are decisions taken by SecHHS under the “as the Secretary shall direct” provisions. Day one of a GOP administration, while Congress is debating any repeal or repeal-and-replace measures, the contraceptive-coverage mandate, the abortion-coverage mandate and be repealed and “Bronze” coverage can be redefined to be something affordable.
That would have to mean that the individual mandate stays, while the employer mandate does not.
Can't blame major U.S. employers for taking this approach. They don't pay the rent and mortgages for their employees, so there's nothing sacred about paying the medical bills.
Nobody finds this a bit of self advocacy?
The dems passed the dumb mess using budget reconciliation, so kill it with the same.
Once the w-2’s were showing health insurance payments by employers greater than federal withholding taxes being collected it was just a matter of time until they followed the money to steal.
The magic word is Reconciliation.
The Senate parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the majority. Easy fix.
Congressional republicans are to scared of the media to do the right thing, they have proven that over and over again.
Nuclear option or use the budget reconciliation somehow, F the filibuster.
First you undo all the pen-and-phone changes with a pen of your own.
Then you lean on congress to do something that actually is within its power, namely regulate interstate commerce, by dropping the ridiculously archaic barriers to interstate insurance.
Then you pass reform through reconciliation, arguing that since it has been ruled by SCOTUS as legal only due to it’s position as a tax, it will be managed legislatively as part of an omnibus income and spending package.
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This of course, after whipping the heretofore weasely R majority leader with a riding crop until he a) admits he likes it and b) tells you who has the photos...
(That last part is sarcasm in case anyone missed it.)
50 and the vice president.
I don't see how those barriers are "archaic." The insurance industry is regulated at the state level, which makes it one of the last remaining industries that still operates under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Insurance companies are free to sell insurance across state lines. They just have to meet the regulatory requirements of each state, and there is a lot of variation in these regulations from one state to the next.
P.S. Mortgage lending is the same way, but for some reason you never hear any complaints about this the way you do about medical insurance.
I don’t see why congress needs to do anything. Obama already set the precedent by changing or delaying implementation of big portions of ObamaCare by fiat. Noice how the Republicans never challenged him on that? It’s be cause they realized once they win back the presidency they can do the same thing.
Delay implementation...forever.
Correct. The Parliamentarian’s ruling on an individual rule procedure can also be overruled by a simple majority.
“There’s nothing we can do.”
The GOP
Then why do we need you?
I believe a common set of standards would decrease a significant part of the cost burden. I also believe it is an idea that should be pursued.
My opinion.
We apparently just disagree.
No shame in that.
A GOP president could simply issue an Executive Order to repeal Obummercare.
Barack Obeyme already set enough precedent for using Exec Orders, so this is the price the Libtards will have to pay (we’ll used ‘em too).
Great article that makes my point beautifully.
OK. So watch how this works. The gop controlled House can’t get anything cohservative done done until the gop gets control of the senate. Once the gop gets comtrol of the senate it can’t get anything conservative done until it gets control of the presidency. Once the gop gets control of the house, the senate and the presidency, it can’t get anything conservative done until it gets at least 60 seats in the senate.
Notice the trend? The gop “can’t” acccomplish anything conservative EVER. But the proper word to use isn’t “can’t”. The proper word is WON’T.
Voting is a suckers game for conservatives. It’s a game of three card monte where we never get to win even if we get the majority of the ballots cast.
The Senate parliamentarian and the insurance agent mentioned in the OP are clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate either intrastate healthcare or insurance. More specifically, regardless what lawless Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, the unconstitutionality of federal spending programs like Obamacare was clarified by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices as evidenced by the excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions below.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
”4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt, low-information senators who pass unconstitutonal bills that steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers and associated state revenues along with it, unconstitutional Obamacare an excellent example of such a bill.
Nothing. They have no intention of repealing it or changing it much.
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