Posted on 05/01/2015 5:12:58 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Republicans believe a Supreme Court ruling against ObamaCare this summer would give them leverage to force President Obama to scrap the healthcare law's central pillars.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who is leading the Senate GOP’s response to King v. Burwell, said Republicans will be willing to strike a deal with Obama to ensure that the 7.5 million people who stand to lose their subsidies are protected, at least until the 2016 elections.
But in return, they would demand that Obama to do something he has long resisted: nix the employer and individual mandates for insurance coverage.
“Is the president going to say, ‘Tough, I’m going to veto that’?” Barrasso said in an interview in his Dirksen office. “There will be, as part of that [deal], things we want to have happen.”
The GOP is far from a consensus about how to react to a potential conservative victory in the case, just two months out from an expected ruling at the end of June. So far, Republicans have put forward more than a half-dozen proposals that they described as ObamaCare alternatives.
The common thread in those plans is some kind of temporary aid for people who could lose their subsidies, which Barrasso said would be the key bargaining chip in a deal with Obama.
But, in the event the justices rule against ObamaCare, Democrats will offer a simpler solution — passing a bill to fix the few sentences of the statute that are under scrutiny.
“The president can say, here’s our one-page bill,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), who opposes the current congressional strategy, told a D.C. audience on Thursday.
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The GOP (Give Obama Power) party KNOWINGLY LIED
to the American people, purporting they would
REPEAL ObamaCARE (from which they, and their staffs,
and families are, and have been, EXEMPT).
Trust once lost cannot be regained.
>> in the event the justices rule against ObamaCare, Democrats will offer a simpler solution — passing a bill to fix the few sentences of the statute that are under scrutiny.
Yep, and after a month or so of tense, drama-filled GOP “opposition theater”, the MAJORITY party will — once again — do the bidding of the vermin in the MINORITY party.
I’d like to believe otherwise but it’s happened too many times not to believe it will happen again.
IF this happens and IF the GOPe gets enough b@lls to even think about ‘demands’ in light of a threatened veto, what they could substantively and effectively do is BLOCK ALL funding of any Administration Agency, period.
It takes only that which started this country - bravery and a willingness to put one’s sacred honor above personal status or gain even in the face of personal peril.
“The GOP is far from a consensus about how to react to a potential conservative victory in the case, just two months out from an expected ruling at the end of June. So far, Republicans have put forward more than a half-dozen proposals that they described as ObamaCare alternatives.”
The party stands for nothing - no governing philosophy, no core principles, no agenda, no values. Hence, no consensus. When you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
The GOP needs a one page bill also.
Tort reform
Selling across state lines
Put things back to 2006
That will take care of it.
Somehow, I don’t think the GOP’s “demands” will include shutting this monstrosity down.
Obama will double down - he’s not “nixing” anything in Obamacare. He will demand the GOP bow to his will once again and the spineless will do so.
Once the Supremes are bought, they stay bought.
you know, the truth is some lied, and some did not. The GOP is not a single entity. Barasso is doing some good things. So are Cruz and Lee. They are part of the GOP. McConnell and his gang are awful. Why can’t we have the discussion with at least this much honesty?
Pithy. Short. BUT.....
Do you have a history to prove this?
The only thing the GOP can do when it comes to obama is reach down and grab their collective ankles with a smile on their faces and a come hither look in their eyes.
The party stands for maximized profits for their corporate paymasters. It's conservatives who stand for nothing if we continue to vote for them.
The answer is simple. Drop the mandates. The private sector will take it from there if competition is restored.
Who would lose? Insurance companies and all of those companies benefitting from medical care expenses that people wouldn't bother with if they were held accountable financially.
You are mistaken.
1. The GOP is a single entity.
2. The GOP lied repeatedly to obtain votes.
Once re-elected, they went back to protecting
corruption, continuing ObamaCARE/DeathCARE,
funding and covering up Benghazi, Election Fraud,
and THEIR OWN INITIATED (by McCain) IRS abuse
of conservatives.
Simple but I think you nailed it. My thinking exactly.
Tort reform
Selling across state lines
Put things back to 2006
Tax favored FSAs, inheritable without taxation
Tax favored catastrophic individual insurance premiums.
Those two things would hugely affect our medical system.
Offering to scrap the mandate in exchange for keeping the subsidies.
What idiots. Try starting from a point of repeal.
The mandate is obviously tyrannical, but the subsidy is yet another unaffordable entitlement. Already have SS and Medicare going to pot.
Need to get gov out of medicine and charity in entirety.
In the case of the GOPe it is trust repeatedly and reliably lost.
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