Posted on 01/04/2015 11:23:41 AM PST by Libloather
The repeal of ObamaCare is the priority of the Republican party, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday.
“There will be a vote on repeal. The president, in the White House, will veto that,” he said of the symbolic gesture offered by GOP lawmakers still unsatisfied with the healthcare legislation.
However, Barrasso told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” that there would also be other bills that strike at other parts of the Affordable Care Act – some of which have gained bipartisan support – including a repeal of the medical device tax and the employer mandate.
There is also steam building behind an effort to remove a provision that classifies a full-time worker as one who works 30 hours per week instead of 40 hours.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who appeared with Barrasso on “Meet the Press,” said that she is working with incoming Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on a way to push the medical device tax repeal across the finish line this year.
It was a tax “slapped on” to the Affordable Care Act, she said, adding that many Democrats – including liberals such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) – are support its removal.
Klobuchar acknowledged that the cost of healthcare reform is, in part, paid for by these taxes, but said she and Hatch “are working on [a way to pay for the removal] as we speak.”
That's what The Hill insists on calling it. I like it - Zerocare.
Comment from the website - Obamacare: To insure the uninsured, first we make the insured uninsured. Then we make the formerly insured pay more to become re-insured to insure the uninsured for free.
No, I am not holding my breath waiting for the repeal.
Let someone else wear those “I Can’t Breathe” shirts.
Bump!
Just saying.
If we are going to repeal Obamacare, we need to start bringing back American jobs. Right now.
People need health insurance, for that they need JOBS.
The GOP is not currently supporting American jobs.
Along with many very nervous rats, they will join forces to “improve” the Edsel, put lipstick on a liberty sucking pig and call it progress, a willingness to govern.
Good summation of Commiecare.
There should be a bill to stick it to the insurance companies who wrote this bill. They’ve been screwing us for so long that its about time they get it too.
That's an oversimplification.
“Death
Panels”??????
LOL. I think this is where your "bring back American jobs" rant doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
This attitude that medical insurance is inextricably linked to employment is what has driven a lot of these jobs out of the country. If I can afford to pay a good salary to an employee but I can't afford to pay for that employee's insurance coverage (and I am required by law under ObamaCare to insure that employee), then guess what: I ain't keeping that employee.
If the president vetoes the bill then it should be passed the same way it was originally passed: as a budget reconciliation bill that only requires 51 votes in the Senate.
You mean 67. It takes a two thirds majority to override a veto.
Then we need Obamacare, actually.
Which do we want?
Either we bring back American jobs, or we provide people with a way to provide insurance for their family.
Sending jobs to China is counter-productive.
I am not arguing for Obamacare, I am arguing for bringing back American jobs.
Defund. Fail to raise debt limit.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Beware that the Republican RINO-controlled Congress will probably be giving us a dog & pony show concerning the repeal of Obamacare. Noting that RINOs have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and regardless what activist justices want everybody to believe about the constitutionality of Obamacare, consider that the Supreme Court has historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from case opinions.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
Patriots need to wise up to the idea that Democrats and RINOs are continuously fighting for special-interest control of 10th Amendment protected state powers which the corrupt federal government has stolen from the states, the corrupt political parties fighting over such powers like dogs fight over a stick. Patriots need to remedy this situation by exercising their voting muscle to peacefully force the feds to surrender those stolen powers back to the states. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of election cycles until we have somebody even more lawless than Obama in the Oval Office imo.
Take a look at the line items in the Federal budget for Medicare and Medicaid.
These jobs will come back when it makes financial sense for employers to bring them back. Until then, you're really just wasting your time.
Yep, Reid and the Drats passed it by "special reconciliation" it should be repealed by the same process.
That’s my point.
There are NOT “plenty of jobs out there for them”.
We have sent millions of former American jobs to China and every other country, but America. Go into any store now.
Everything is made in China.
Nobody is talking about this, because everyone is selling out America.
The “unemployment rate” is good, not because there are jobs, but because we have now excluded 100,000,000 people from the calculations.
America is suffering, big time.
GOP ... kindly stop selling out American workers.
Bring back jobs to the USA.
There is also steam building behind an effort to remove a provision that classifies a full-time worker as one who works 30 hours per week instead of 40 hours.
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Here comes the 39 hour work week.
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