House Republicans seek ObamaCare repeal, more defense $$ in new budget plan

FOX News ^ | March 17, 2015

[Jim Robinson]

House Republicans, unveiling their first budget blueprint since the party took control of Congress, issued a sweeping spending plan Tuesday that calls for complete repeal of ObamaCare, major changes to Medicare and controversial moves to boost defense spending despite tight budget limits.

GOP leaders say their budget would balance in less than 10 years, and in that time cut spending by $5.5 trillion compared with current projections.

The spending plan stands little chance of ever being signed by President Obama, but makes clear that the party is not dialing back its ambitions despite a rocky start to the latest congressional session.

After some internal debate over the Republican strategy for taking on the Affordable Care Act, the budget plan renews GOP calls to repeal and replace the law.

The document would repeal ObamaCare “in its entirety,” and calls for “starting over with a patient-centered approach to health care reform.” The document does not get into deep specifics on what this might entail – one factor is a pending Supreme Court case over the law’s subsidies that could force Congress and the Obama administration to reconsider the policy, if the administration loses.

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price’s $3.8 trillion plan borrows heavily from prior GOP budgets, including a plan that would transform Medicare into a voucher-like "premium support" program for seniors joining Medicare in 2024 or later. They would receive a subsidy to purchase health insurance on the private market.

Meanwhile, Republicans are proposing using tens of billions of dollars in additional war funding to get around tight budget limits on the Pentagon.

[donaldo]

My new obozocare primary care physician:

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/obamawitchdoctor.jpg

[PATRIOT1876]

OBAMACARE MUST BE CRUSHED INTO A COLORLESS ODORLESS POWDER AND THROWN INTO THE MOLTEN CENTER OF THE EARTH WHERE IT CAN NEVER REAR IT’S UGLY HEAD AGAIN!

[Arm_Bears]

Republicans will abandon this budget plan at the first whiff of a government shutdown.

[PapaNew]

If they don’t get the repeal, states should nullify Obamacare as patently unconstitutional (my health insurance is NONE of the feds business.)

[WIBamian]

With Boehner as Speaker, there will only be spending through smoke-and-miror accounting tricks that seem to show cost cutting but actually grows the federal beast of burden.

I'm really proud that my Tea Party congressman, Gary Palmer, from Alabama, voted for Senator Jeff Sessions to be Speaker of the House.

How many Freepers are proud of their congressman or woman for how they voted in the House Speakership election in January of this year?

[Tzimisce]

I’m sure they’ll work real hard before giving Obama everything he wants.

[1010RD]

Fake, but accurate. They had a chance with before the Cromnibus. This is smoke and mirrors for the public face or is it farce?

[i_robot73]

Does it ‘balance’ in the next year or the next 10-20? I KILL me, what a hoot.

New budget? or just more smoke/mirrors/cooking-books with another endless cadre of cont. resolutions because they can NEVER LIVE with one penny less...