Here's what will actually happen:
Posted on 04/16/2014 1:57:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Top House conservatives are pressuring Republican leaders to bring an ObamaCare replacement bill to a vote by the August recess.
Conservatives cheered when Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pledged a vote during the House GOP’s annual retreat in January, viewing the commitment as a central element of the party’s vow to be “the alternative party” and not merely stand in opposition to President Obama.
Yet 10 weeks later, party leaders have given no indication when they might present a plan or what form it will take.
Conservatives like Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), are pushing for a vote by the time lawmakers leave town for five weeks at the end of July. “At the end of the day, we feel it’s really important to bring a bill to the floor that is a true replacement to the president’s healthcare law,” Scalise said in a phone interview Tuesday. “Look, leadership’s come a long way in the last six months on that, and we’re continuing to talk to them to try to get to a point where we actually have a vote on the House floor by the August recess.”
Scalise wants the party to adopt a single, comprehensive replacement for ObamaCare, but party leaders have not signed off on that approach. In recent weeks, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has suggested the House might vote instead on a series of healthcare bills.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has shied away from making any commitment at all, appearing to downplay the importance of holding a floor vote within a specific timeframe.
At a press conference last week, Boehner said Cantor and other top Republicans are “trying to build a consensus over what an alternative would look like.”
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If the status quo was so bad, why were 80% of the people OK with it?
Only a politician thinks that you replace a bad bill with... another stupid bill.
Best thing that could happen would be to cancel OCare outright and then in the next congress undertake a study to see how best to provide insurance to those few million who do not have insurance.
Here's what will actually happen:
Like the bunch of others before it which were passed in the House, it will be presented to Dingy Harry who will refuse to bring it to the Senate floor.
It should be the completely unfettered free market in healthcare (with rational tort reform), but we'll never see it again.
First off, 80% huh?
Where was that poll taken, Stalingrad?
80% of Americans will never agree to anything.
Part of what makes America so unique.
If it was up to me I would outlaw all polling. Too much time is wasted on polls. The only poll that really matters is the one that occurs every two years.
The solution is to get government and attorneys(a redundancy) out of the industry.
Right after we get rid of laws forcing hospitals and insurance companies to cover illegals at the rest of the country's LEGAL citizenry's expense.
what was the “replacement plan” when the soviet union dismantled it’s communist system?
oh yeah... that’s right! FREEDOM! (and it requires no plan, only defense)
Where in the Constitution is Healthcare?
Where’s the Democrat’s fixes? They’re all campaigning on “fix it” but I haven’t seen one solid plan on how.
The media’s always pushing the line that “Republicans don’t have a plan” but they never ask the Dems.
Where’s the fixes? In detail, as a bill that can pass.
RE: WHY DOES THERE NEED TO BE A REPLACEMENT BILL?
Let’s try getting the government clear out of the healthcare business. Like is used to be. Like it should be.
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So, the campaign plan for the Republicans would be:
1) Repeal Obamacare
2) Get government clear out of healthcare ( meaning eliminate Medicaid and Medicare ).
And you think this will be a winning message?
RE: The solution is to get government and attorneys(a redundancy) out of the industry.
So, you think eliminating Medicaid and Medicare is going to be a winning campaign theme?
RE: If the status quo was so bad, why were 80% of the people OK with it?
There is ONE issue that these 80% are dissatisfied with -— THE CONTINUED INCREASE IN THE COST OF HEALTHCARE.
*That* could be improved on. So yes, the status quo is not enough. We need more -— Tort reform, being able to buy across state lines.
One other issue that even the 80% are not satisfied with -— PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONs are not adequately addressed.
THOSE would be better than even the status quo.
RE: Where in the Constitution is Healthcare?
Nowhere. But let’s be practical... you’re not going to win by telling everyone you’re going to leave healthcare to the market and eliminate ALL of medicare and medicaid.
If you honestly propose that, you might as well hand 2014 to the Dems.
“Nowhere. But let’s be practical... you’re not going to win by telling everyone you’re going to leave healthcare to the market and eliminate ALL of medicare and medicaid.
If you honestly propose that, you might as well hand 2014 to the Dems.”
Honestly, where in my post did I propose leaving healthcare to the market, and eliminate ALL of medicare, and medicaid?
Curious how you put such thoughts into my head to respond in such a way.
RE: Honestly, where in my post did I propose leaving healthcare to the market, and eliminate ALL of medicare, and medicaid?
I was just following the question to its logical conclusion.
If the constitution does not say that the Federal government should handle healthcare, then it goes without saying that they SHOULD NOT and what they’re doing is unconstitutional.
So what follows if we want to follow the constitution?
Well, if we really want to follow our argument to its logical conclusion, the Federal government should not be in the business of medicaid or medicare.
Obviously we know that this isn’t going to happen, so the answer tot he question is moot.
We ALREADY are doing what is unconstitutional and like it or not, doing the constitutional thing isn’t going to fly politically.
All we can do is LIMIT the damage.
Do we agree the Constitution is the law of the land? If so, then how do we compromise that which is the law of this land with criminals breaking the law of the land?
We have a war on our hands, and we won’t win it compromising.
IF we continue wringing our hands, and compromising to “limit” the damage then we continue down the road.
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