Posted on 03/03/2015 7:35:00 AM PST by GIdget2004
Several key conservative lawmakers aren't ruling out support for proposals to temporarily extend people’s ObamaCare plans if the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies under the law.
“I don’t want to prejudge that debate right now, I want to assess the options,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) raised concerns about how long the extension would be, but also suggested he could consider it.
“I think it should be limited, perhaps, but I don’t shut the door on that,” he said.
Republicans are looking to show the Supreme Court that they have a plan ready if the court rules to invalidate subsidies for around 7.5 million people in at least 34 states in the case of King v. Burwell, set for arguments on Wednesday.
A central part of the plans unveiled this week is a proposal to provide financial assistance to people losing their subsidies so that they can temporarily keep their ObamaCare plans and avoid disruption. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), as well as Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), have proposed versions of that idea.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) was a leader in the 2013 effort to defund ObamaCare, but he is interested in the extension idea.
He and other lawmakers recently met with Sasse. “We’re in the process of evaluating it, but I love that forward thinking, [making] sure we have a plan and he’s doing a good job of that,” Meadows said of Sasse.
Asked if it would be politically difficult to pass Sasse’s proposed extension of plans, Meadows said “No, I think the compassionate way, you have to deal with the reality.”
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Sounds like DHS all over, can’t wait to hear Obama saying he will veto it
Surprise!
GOP wants to extend Obamacare.
And every one on here criticized me last November for staying away from the polls.
Oops. This is the party that can’t get it act together.
Is it not sweet for the EXEMPT to debate how
to mistreat their constituents to whom they lied?
How special is that?
Should be “key Republicans”, not “conservatives.”
Dem plan worked like a charm. Millions of people are now addicted to the subsidies and the GOP is in quaking fear of making them mad.
Game Over.
M-O-R-O-N-S
The sooner responsible adults snuff out the existence of this law the better. To prolong it in any fashion subjects people ensnared by it with anxiety, financial uncertainty, and possibly contributes to a worsening health situation.
Kill it, stomp it, smother it and enact emergency means to address critical time sensitive needs and then work on means to replace it. Allow insurance companies to re-offer former plans, stop penalizing citizens and employers from providing a service that is needed. Get Obama out of it completely, and send him and his ilk to the woodshed.
Fixing this won’t be solved in the dead of night so quickly even the proponents or their staff could read it. We’d have been better off just doubling Medicare for cripes sake.
Medicaid, I mean.
It’s too early in the day to take a vodka shot to dull out this stupidity.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Obama’s illegal “executive action amnesty”, Obamacare, or u-pic-it, the Republicans are there to save the Democrats. Again and again and again.
They serve no purpose other than to fool you into thinking they oppose the Democrats, that there is a choice. The Uniparty must go.
Nothing in Washington is more permanent than a “temporary solution”.
5.56mm
If a structure is so badly flawed it’s dangerous, there are cost involved in tearing it down and removing it.
The GOP is dead.
Uniparty? Not really. This is Democrat policy. GOP are just pigs at the beltway trough funding it.
If the USSC gives Congress the opportunity to kill obamaCare and Congress doesn’t do so — without delay — it will not just be another huge lie by the very people who voters entrusted to keep their word and protect the Constitution, it will be a direct slap across the face of American taxpayers.
The return of the compromising, GOP, moderate. They had worked on the sidelines, but now they are out of the closet.
Next step, Dem/GOP, joint proposals. Very soon (maybe by the end of the week with the DHS funding bill) we are going to see Dems and Repubs joining hands to ace out the Tea Party.
Third Party Hell, we need a second party.
REPEAL! Repeal it in full. Replace it with NOTHING. Then repeal Medicare and Medicaid.
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