Posted on 11/13/2013 3:27:12 PM PST by Libloather
As she walked into the Senate's weekly party luncheon, Landrieu claimed that leadership was warming up to her bill. "Every day we pick up new sponsors," she said. When asked whether her bill would effectively gut the implementation of Obamacare, she shook her head.
"That's not true," said Landrieu. "What my bill would do is allow 5 percent of the American people who had individual coverage, that were ensured as of such-and-such a date, to keep their insurance. My bill says permanently—there might be other bills that say two years or three years. Throughout that time, many of the people who have those plans—this is my view—will see that they can get better plans at better value."
And it was important to pass her bill, not Upton's. "That bill does not fix the Affordable Care Act," said Landrieu. "It does not fix it. It guts it. I would not urge the Democrats in the House to support it, because it allows, through 2014, new people to sign up, which would undermine the Affordable Care Act."
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As one other FR’per put it, “Nix It, Don’t Fix It” sounds best to me.
The GOP has got to stop Landrieu and her cohorts from looking like they are saving Obamacare.
The point here is that the Upton bill cannot come to a vote. Reid will substitute the Landrieu language—saving Obmacare and saving Landrieu. The House would then have to vote to SAVE OBAMACARE!!
Upton’s bill cannot see the light of day. Call him and tell his office what a disaster it would be.
No. And Hell No. See tagline.
THEY wanted this crap sandwich, now by damn they’re going to eat it! Let the full impact of Big Govermint and Liberalism become known to as many people as possible.
Then - a new, conservative President and Congress will “fix it”...
They keep saying 5% but that equates to 15 million! But if that’s just policyholders it doesn’t include the dependents!
Okay, so she claims her bill would allow the 5% to keep their plan.
What about the millions who will lose their plans once the employer mandate goes into effect?
The R’s should not go along with any non-fix proposed by Landrieu.
Only action is to pass another repeal in the House. Anything else leads to republicans sharing in the blame for this disaster.
14th Amendment, anyone? Equality under the law? Why do the 5% get a special exemption????
I don’t think they really know who wrote obamacare. I don’t think any of today’s politicians wrote it. It is too complicated for them to imagine.
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