Posted on 06/17/2012 5:51:20 AM PDT by tobyhill
Congressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don't plan to push replacement measures until after the fall elections or perhaps 2013.
Instead, GOP lawmakers cite recent announcements that some insurance companies will retain a few of the law's higher-profile provisions as evidence that quick legislative action is not essential. Those are steps that officials say Republicans quietly urged in private conversations with the industry.
Once the Supreme Court issues a ruling, "the goal is to repeal anything that is left standing," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., a member of the party's leadership.
Beyond that, "we ought to go step by step to lower the cost" of health care, he added, a formula repeated by numerous other Republicans interviewed in recent days.
Across the political aisle, neither President Barack Obama nor congressional Democrats have said how they will react to a high court ruling that could wipe out the legislation they worked so hard to enact.
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AARP is in the bag with this healthcare scam while zero tells us all these evil insurance companies are stealing from you. Kill the entire bill just as a smack in the face to those who decieved and defied the American people.
People need to face the fact that congress doesn’t really want to fix things.
After all, if they fix something, they no longer have a club to beat voters with in the next election.
No one in the insurance rackets believed the 30 million new customers thing. For them it was more about ‘their share’ ~ you can’t be an insurance executive and really believe there are 30 million “more’.
I hope you have enough to pay for a catastrophe. Your stance sounds noble but care for some bad illnesses can be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They can have “their share” but it won’t include me.
judas priest man, if you have a heart attack you will be completely broke. You better put all your assets in joint names with your spouse. Be advised. Medical bills are the number one reason for people declaring bankruptcy. Health ins is a necessary evil to protect what else you may ever be able to pull together, your house for one.
I’ll pay them $10 a month. The law already prohibits hospitals from turning anyone down with life threatening situations. The hospitals have also been involved in this scam so they can also suck wind for all I care.
I don't know tobyhill, I hope he's rich, I'm sure he means what he says, etc., etc.
HOWEVER
Most who choose this path deal with the reality of medical bills they can't pay by - not paying them.
Since we require, by statute and by tort law, that hospitals and doctors deliver the care, no matter what, and since we allow nonpayment, we are on a path to destruction - slow but sure.
Something's gotta give.
Again, I will not support them with my hard earned money anymore being they have been involved in this Socialist scam. I would rather die than give them one more penny of my money even though I can afford it.
I hope that you’re either a very wealthy man or win the lottery.
Romney's plan is to "repeal and replace" Obamacare with Romneycare. RINO's in the Congress plan to help him pass what they will tout as a bipartisan program, but they can't do so until after the election.
I am not rich but I can afford to payout whatever bills come in. They may not get it all at once but they will get it.
well, once my kids are grown I may do the same. Can’t see it now. Good for you. Anyway, what’s so great about doing whatever to simply stay alive in this stew? As a friend of mine used to say, you gotta die from something
It’s the principle here. If I get sick or injured I would rather pay the hospital and/or doctors the amount I’ve been paying the insurance companies. Since I haven’t been sick or injured, I have been able to save a substantial amount that I was paying to insurance in an emergency savings account.
When I was born in 1964 the total hospital bill was $85 which was about a week and a half’s pay for my dad at that point.
It certainly looks like you have a point. With the present systems of Medicare and Medicaid being now in direct conflict or competition with Obama Care, it is difficult to see how someone can complain about the demise of medicare especially when more than a half trillion dollars was removed from Medicare to “pay” for Obama Care.
How many folks are reading front page news about the demise of Medicare? I just got a letter from my congresswoman telling me that medicare needs fixing so it will not be lost for seniors. Just how many seniors wanted to be stuffed into medicare at age 65, anymore than being stuffed into Obama care without any recourse or choice.
By adding Obama care to the mix, government has jeopardized Medicare, Medicaid, and Obama Care programs IMHO. In reality government has no mandate or Constitutional authority to be engaged in the medical business or a thousand other things it is engaged in and now we are faced with the ultimate financial jeopardy by virtue of fiscal insanity in Washington, DC.
Frankly Scarlett, I’m ready for Medicare, Medicaid, and Obama Care to be declared unconstitutional and the real fix of reality to make an appearance. I guess that choice isn’t very comfortable for “We the People”. What it comes down to is this: A Republic if you can keep it, or Health Care. Now there are a couple of choices.
That attitude is one of the big reasons that health care costs so much in the US. Everyone else ends up picking up the tab when people don’t pay bills.
That attitude is one of the big reasons that health care costs so much in the US. Everyone else ends up picking up the tab when people don’t pay bills.
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