Senate GOP prepared to replace Obamacare subsidies

Politico ^ | 05/26/2015 | JENNIFER HABERKORN and RACHAEL BADE

[GIdget2004]

Preparing for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down Obamacare’s subsidies for nearly 7.5 million people this summer, Senate Republicans are coalescing around a plan to resurrect them — at a steep price for the White House.

With several Senate Republicans facing tough reelections, and control of the chamber up for grabs, 31 senators have signed on to a bill written by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would restore the subsidies for current Obamacare enrollees through September 2017. But the administration would have to pay a heavy price — the bill would also repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates and insurance coverage requirements.

“In that moment of what could be political chaos, we’re offering such a reasonable proposal that solves a mess,” Johnson said. “It fixes a mess caused by a sloppily written law, unlawfully implemented. All we’re asking for is a little bit of freedom back, which would be, I think, pretty popular,” Johnson said. Even Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing Johnson’s measure, along with the rest of the chamber’s GOP leaders.

Johnson, who’s got a tight race in 2016, says the legislation would be a bridge to ensure that consumers can keep the insurance they have — a promise that President Barack Obama was widely criticized for breaking in 2014.

But even if Johnson could somehow persuade Obama and Senate Democrats to accept his plan — a herculean task — the bigger problem will be his Republican colleagues in the House.

[Sirius Lee]

Without the mandates the law is basically dead.

[Yosemitest]

BULL CRAP.
It's about FOOLING THE STUPID:

The "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" are trying to amend it TO SAVE IT
under the FALSE PRETENSE that they're trying to destroy its mandate
(which that provision will NEVER make it out of the "RESOLUTION COMMITTEE") .

The GOP NEVER FAILS TO SNACH DEFEAT from the jaws of VICTORY !

[C. Edmund Wright]

We’ll see what happens in committee.....but again, my only point is IF (look up what that means) - IF the mandates are gone - then the main Constitutional objection is no longer valid.....and then WE have the freedom not to participate.

IF the mandates are not revoked, then of course I’ve no interest in this bill.

But if they are, that is a win in and of itself, altho not as good as full repeal.

[Yosemitest]

"IF the mandates are not revoked, then of course I’ve no interest in this bill."

IF the mandates are not revoked, then ... it'll be too damn late.
Because that happens in the "Resolution Committee", AFTER it passes the House and the Senate makes amendments.
Then the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" will be laughing their butts off all the way through re-elections,
because the IDIOTS didn't raise a stink about them SAVING THE DemocRATS under false pretenses, with their DECEITFUL BILL.

[Baltimore ken]

I long for the day when “we the people” March on D.C. armed and clean that rats’ nest out Both parties.