Pelosi Statement on Republican Bill to Repeal Health Reform (now it's all about jobs)

Speaker.gov ^ | 1/03/11 | San Fran Gran Nan

[Libloather]

Pelosi Statement on Republican Bill to Repeal Health Reform
For Immediate Release
01/03/2011

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the incoming House Republican leadership posted their legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act:

“As we begin the 112th Congress, the number one priority of House Democrats will continue to be putting Americans to work. Each new proposal will be measured by a simple test: does it create jobs? Does it strengthen America’s middle class? And does it reduce the deficit? When our Republican colleagues put forward solutions to the problems facing Americans that meet these tests, they will find in Democrats a willing partner.

“Instead of joining Democrats in our efforts for job creation, Republicans are planning to put insurance companies back in charge by repealing patient’s rights.

“House Democrats will fight to ensure that children with pre-existing conditions continue to get coverage; that young people can stay on their parents’ plans until age 26; that pregnant women and breast cancer survivors can no longer be thrown off the rolls; and that seniors do not pay higher drug prices.”

[azishot]

Thank you. She wants to create more GOVERNMENT jobs, not private sector ones.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

A lesson and WARNING to Repubs:

The FIRST one of you who treats that Botox Bitch (or Hoyer, Frank, the Commie Weasel, Waxman, or any other Demo-Rat with "kindness and respect" (i.e. "Reaching accross the aisle") after having been sheet on; locked out of debates; denied oppty to offer amendments; refused access to legislation, etc) should be targeted for defeat in 2012

I know, I know, the RATS have the media on their side and the MSM will hammer the R's at every turn.

TOUGH!

Tell them, "Paybacks are a bitch," "they won;" get over it and live with it!

Also, please note Republi-tards, how the Dimmy-Crats can hang together and once the "talking points" are issued, 99% of the Rats march in lock step.

The orders went out last week that to try and blunt the incoming R's in the House from conducting "Investigations," they were to parrot "It's all about jobs," and even O'Reilly fell for it when he suggested it was a waste of time to try and repeal O'Bummer's Death Care.

Sadly, no one bothered to ask any of the Dummies how it is that in the past 2 years, they concentrated on EVRYTHING, but JOBS?

[griswold3]

Saw Wasserman-Schultz on CNBC this morning, they get their talking points down fast.

R ‘s talking points- Stop the job killing bills from the past two years

[griswold3]

Saw Wasserman-Schultz on CNBC this morning, they get their talking points down fast.

R ‘s talking points- Stop the job killing bills from the past two years

[BikerJoe]

Yet they, the left, think it’s “moral” to put a gun to everyone else’s head to force them to pay for a stranger’s healthcare.

I'm not asking for anyone ELSE to pay my healthcare, but when, as a small business, the lowest-cost option I could find for my me and my wife was $1600/month, something IS wrong.

[Lazamataz]

Each new proposal will be measured by a simple test: does it create jobs?

No, Pee Louse.

Each new proposal will be measured by THIS simple test: Is it Constitutional?

Secondly, don't you have some job-creating unemployment checks to authorize?

You ignorant sl*t?

[MrB]

Yep, you could certainly stash away that premium and probably cover all but the most catastrophic health costs.

There are many other solutions to that problem than socialism, though.

Your situation might be best served with a high deductible catastrophic policy, and you sock away the difference into a healthcare savings account. 0bama has made sure this option is illegal for folks like you, though.

[84rules]

I'm not asking for anyone ELSE to pay my healthcare, but when, as a small business, the lowest-cost option I could find for my me and my wife was $1600/month, something IS wrong.

Yeah. They're called frivolous lawsuits and lack of competition. As soon as the courts allowed people like John Edwards to get rich off of junk science medical lawsuits, it drove the cost of insurance up and it forced doctors to do unnecessary procedures in order to be prepared for possible lawsuits which drove costs up even further. When Congress forbade selling insurance across state-lines, it gave the insuarance companies mini-monopolies that they've been exploiting ever since.

[Seruzawa]

Nancy Pelosi.... the gift that keeps on giving. I look forward to much humor from Nancy until the inevitable psychotic break and institutionalization.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Issa should make Pelosi priority number 2.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”As we begin the 112th Congress, the number one priority of House Democrats will continue to be putting Americans to work. Each new proposal will be measured by a simple test: does it create jobs? Does it strengthen America’s middle class? And does it reduce the deficit? When our Republican colleagues put forward solutions to the problems facing Americans that meet these tests, they will find in Democrats a willing partner.” “Instead of joining Democrats in our efforts for job creation, Republicans are planning to put insurance companies back in charge by repealing patient’s rights. “House Democrats will fight to ensure that children with pre-existing conditions continue to get coverage; that young people can stay on their parents’ plans until age 26; that pregnant women and breast cancer survivors can no longer be thrown off the rolls; and that seniors do not pay higher drug prices.”

Pelosi war ping!

[ridesthemiles]

You need to keep looking at other companies & policies.

My neighbor covers her husband, herself & her daughter for $260 a month.

[aces]

So let the pubs introduce a bill eliminating all taxes for citizens and business on the federal level and let taxes be handles by the states, don’t give the federal government the power of having wealth at all to bail out states..Watch the growth then...states who are not debt laden will have companies and industry revitalized..kill off the IRS, reorganize the epa and rewrite its charter and scope of power, all things should be local to manage it properly...
This bill can be introduced at the same time they start the repeal bill..no problem..

[RoadTest]

“the number one priority of House Democrats will continue to be putting Americans to work.”

Can we get back to reality here?

- the number one priority of House Democrats will continue to be putting Americans out of work.

[ZULU]

Won’t SOMEBODY throw a bucket of water on this witch?

Only in San Francrisco could such a freak be elected.

[BikerJoe]

You need to keep looking at other companies & policies. My neighbor covers her husband, herself & her daughter for $260 a month.

We went through a broker. He assured us it was the best we could do.

[Eva]

This is to be the talking point for the Democrats against the repeal of Obamacare. The Democrats are against a rock and a hard place on Obamacare because they want it out of the news. They need to put this away well before the 2012 campaign begins because they know it is a loser for them.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It was exactly the requirements that insurance companies could no longer exclude folks with pre-existing conditions and that the lifetime payout caps would be removed that required the libdems to make buying insurance mandatory. By making insurance companies responsible for payments for every ailment in unlimited sums, it was a recipe for higher premiums and/or bankrupt insurance companies.

If Republicans do the same things, how could the eventual results be any different?

[VeniVidiVici]

Republicans need to stop being pussies and answer FORCEFULLY each time a Democrat spouts this drivel.

The Democrats haven’t been concerned with job creation for four years. NOW that the Republicans have taken the House they are concerned with it.

[marstegreg]

If Republicans do the same things, how could the eventual results be any different?

I was just being sarcastic. The point I was trying to make is that these tid-bits are part of the talking points the thrown in to push this monstrocity and they are brought out to keep it. What worries me is all the stuff buried in the bowels of this beast that we don’t even know about yet. My guess is if we offer to keep some of these tid-bits, they will still make a big stink in order to keep the ones we have yet to discover. I should have been clearer.