Posted on 01/17/2017 5:43:11 AM PST by xzins
With the repeal of Obamacare gathering a considerable amount of corporate media attention, it is important to remember the UniParty, Democrats and Republicans, have been paid by the U.S. CoC to retain it at all costs.
♦ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce constructed a short list of Wall Street-centric legislative priorities back in 2014 for legislative years ’15 and ’16. Among those priorities was:
Retention of Obamacare
Implementation of Common Core federal education standards.
Passage of the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal (TPP)
Comprehensive immigration reform to include amnesty. the-big-club-2
U.S. CoC President Tom Donohue has spent hundreds of millions via K-Street lobbyists to construct and advance these objectives. Understanding that Donald Trump represented an existential threat toward these endeavors, Donohue targeted candidate Trump for removal. Donohue lost.
However, despite the Trump victory – Donohue has already paid the leadership of both parties to advance, now retain, his legislative priorities. Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn will do everything within their power to keep the cost of healthcare from the P-n-L of U.S. corporations. This is the appropriate background for the current dynamic.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not even remotely similar to the local Chambers’ of Commerce that most people might be familiar with. The U.S. CoC sets the legislative priorities for congress and tells Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan what to do.
At the very heart of our nation’s economic and political strife you will find the U.S. CoC’s legislative priorities which are antithetical to America-First interests. The CoC is looking out for multi-national corporations, banks and the upper echelon of Wall Street financial interests, period.
Last week the initial legislative vehicle (a budgetary construct) for an Obamacare repeal was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Just like the original ACA bill, the repeal vehicle passed along party lines. However, everyone must beware the appearance of something, is not necessarily the ‘doing of something’.
GOPe republicans are famous for appearing to do things in order to retain the optics of a position they are not aligned with. A solid example was the IRS targeting of the Tea Party and how the Democrats and Republicans both supported -and benefited from- that targeting. Take out the Tea Party and establishment GOPe representatives were protected just like Democrats.
The subsequent IRS hearings and investigation approach was a complete ruse. Remember also, committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz took millions from the U.S. CoC as payback for not running against Senator Orrin Hatch in 2011, which led to this:
OrrinHatchWASHINGTON DC – Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Thursday praised Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as a “remarkable” and “tremendous” jurist who wrote a “clever” opinion upholding a key provision of ObamaCare.
“All I can say is that the chief justice is a remarkable judge. He’s a tremendous human being. I have a tremendous confidence in him and I believe in him. (link)
Another example was the Benghazi hearings. Political followers generally espouse an opinion of the GOPe showcasing apathy and ineptitude in both the IRS and the Benghazi examples. However, that’s not accurate. The GOPe was not apathetic, they were merely following a playbook, an often deployed strategy, to give the appearance of one position, but retaining a hidden goal that is 180° divergent.
Fair warning. The 1:30am Obamacare repeal construct last week has all the appearances of the exact same approach.
Republican leadership (Ryan, McCarthy, McMorris, / McConnell, Cornyn, et al) have absolutely no intention of repealing Obamacare, ever. This is not cynicism, this is simply accepting reality by following their historic behavior. It’s simply what they do.
He says (whatever year that is) that the uninsured totaled about 42 million and 10 million of those are children.
On that page he favors allowing all to exclude health care cots from income. I agree with that absolutely.
He says that low income can be subsidized to buy policies...I assume he means catastrophic plans. Using the 40 million figure, that would be about 10 million households more or less.
A catastrophic family plan used to cost it seems, $3000. I agree with that. If we double it for time, then we’re talking 6000 for 10 million.
That’s 60 billion bucks. More than doable and far cheaper than ObamaCare.
See #20
They would have had them on the floor as well, had any been needed.
That argument has been made by every side for what, 2 centuries. So, no matter how an honest man votes, it is irrelevant? We will see when the change comes who votes for what?
I will beat the drum for making all medical expenses a credit on income tax returns, and I understand this will benefit all taxpayers.
So, COC doesn’t represent free enterprise. Why are you attacking private sector businesses?
Only those businesses that want to import the workers for the jobs that can’t be exported.
Free enterprise that costs us our country isn’t free.
What constitutes a “medical expense”?
You can’t be a little bit pregnant. In other words, you can’t have just a little socialism.
Humans lived until about 1950 with no health insurance and populated the planet with several billion people. I know many people, including my Dad, that never had health insurance for a lifetime. John Adams never had health insurance and lived to 90 years.
I am clearly not in favor of allowing criminal aliens to ignore federal law.
Plenty of employers of illegal aliens are ignoring federal law and the CoC wants amnesty for them as much as for the illegal aliens.
Hospital stays, doctor visits, medications. Do you really not understand this? The insurance business has convinced everyone it is not possible to live without them? If you want it fine, if you don’t that’s fine too.
Yes HSA is not a policy, it is the tax free or credit vehicle of which a catastrophic insurance plan can be purchased as well as a Direct Primary Care Plan with a local MD of your choice. Making said credit available to everyone is in Dr Price’s Bill if my memory is correct which is a fatal flaw of Obamacare. Right now ( and before Obamacare ) unless you worked for an employer, or had a small business where you could take the credit, if you were somewhere in between ( 1099 contractor etc ) you were screwed, just like all those right now buying Gold, Silver and Bronze plans, they are with after tax dollars...
>> John Adams never had health insurance and lived to 90 years.
Two of his offspring, siblings to Quincy, died as children.
Again, I despise foreign invaders. COC also represents free enterprise.
I love the Conservative Treehouse because it:
1) dispels the fiction that the good guys are republicans and the bad guys are democrats, therefore, we “hold our nose” and support anything (R)
2) recognizes that the big division is NOT “conservative” v “liberal” but big state v little guy
This is a voice from the crowd that are against the left without being a tool and stooge of the megastate Republicans. I love them.
Yep, infant and child mortality was quite high before vaccines came along.
Michealangelo lived to 89 and his father to 90 in the 14th century when the plague was killing millions in Europe. They simply moved out of the citiy when outbreaks occurred.
Correction: were quite high
Should children get vaccines if their parents can’t afford them? There is a slippery slope.
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