Posted on 06/09/2015 11:13:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans in Congress are worried the Supreme Court will hand them a major headache this month if it rules against the federal health insurance exchanges in more than 30 states, ending subsidies for millions of people.
While the Affordable Care Act remains broadly unpopular, two new polls show a majority of Americans don’t want to do away with its subsidies, a core component of the law.
This poses a conundrum for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner. They are under pressure from colleagues up for reelection in swing states and districts to extend the subsidies, at least temporarily, if the court strikes them down. But doing so would risk a backlash from the conservative base. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision in King v. Burwell, which could strip 6.4 million people of health insurance subsidies, in late June.
States that would be hardest hit by a ruling against the law include Senate battlegrounds of Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.
“The politics of the King vs. Burwell case are extremely treacherous and tricky for Republicans because if the subsidies are thrown out by the court, Republicans are in the position of having to create a fix that would be seen as a problem by their most conservative supporters,” said John Ullyot, a GOP strategist and former senior Senate aide.
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that a majority of the public, 55 percent, does not want the court to block federal subsidies for people in states that have not set up their own exchanges. Only 38 percent said they wanted the subsidies ended.
“It does create a political problem for the GOP because there could be millions of people who got health insurance as a result of ObamaCare who lose it,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
How do I get these subsidies?
If you work most likely you don’t qualify.
Best bet, run for congress. Those Evil Bastards are exempt.
Shows you how screwed the country is when defeating a bad law is looked at as a political liablity by the ruling elite.
Subsidies are illegal. All those that received this illegal payments to their health care under Obamacare must repay the taxpayers. Screw these jackasses that would steal from me. Americans are basically so damn screwed up they have no idea who they hurt and don’t give a damn. As long as they get their handout.
-PJ
I don’t doubt it. in Washington GOP circles a win is a loss and a loss is a win. Just watch their primary election actions, and watch them help sink good general election candidates like Cuccinelli in VA.
Turn Black.
I tend to agree. The Establishment Republicans really aren’t against ObamaCare. They just want to take credit for it when they report to their WallSt/Banker/Corporatist cronies that they have found a way to lower employee compensation by the cost of a health care plan.
I don’t understand why a bad law passed without a single Republican vote has to become the Republicans’ problem if it doesn’t work and/or is ruled unconstitutional by the liberal Supreme Court.
Actuall I don’t trust “The Hill” for anything let alone news about Obamacare. But the broken clock analogy just might be a fit in this case. Hand wringing instead of action All the Grand, Old, Chicken-Hearted, Party actually has to do here is easily characterized as follows:
JUST DO THE RIGHT THING YOU BOZOS.
But I don’t expect that outcome for a minute, sad to say. Bad laws are forever. This will be no exception if some leadership doesn’t emerge to save us.
Federal Exchange subsidies are not funded by Congress.
The Administration’s offering of the subsidies even though Congress did not fund them is fundamentally a destruction of the constitutional framework.
If 0bama can spend money when Congress didn’t fund it, then Congress should permanently adjourn. The pussies can go dig a ditch, which would be more productive.
The GOPE proves it is liberal by refusing to defund pure Socialism.
Of course they don't want to lose their "free" money.
Do people on food stamps want to lose their "free" food? Of course not.
Do people living in Section 8 housing want to lose their free housing? Of course not.
Etc.
Well, I’m certainly glad that the GOP-E has the nation’s best interests at heart...
In DC, the Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument and the Republicans respond with a sensible plan to do it in three stages.
“Repeal and replace,” which has been the GOP mantra right along, translated, means “we can do socialism better than Obama.”
Who? Who FEARS it? Anyone go on the record, or is this the “Hill” editorializing?
A former aide is not a “Republican”...it is a career fellow who wants to be quoted in a Beltway newspaper.
Oh, well. Maybe King Hussein and his buttlicking minions in the DemonRat party should've written the law better.
Game over.
By the way, has The Hill done a poll on how the public distrusts the media??? I wonder if The Hill will change its mode of news delivery since media is viewed as a bunch of hacks who are leftist banshees.
You are being too rational and logical.
The mainstream media can be counted on to blame republicans for anything that interferes with gimmedat benefits, no matter the facts.
Current republican leadership choses to be squelched and take fall.
All part of the cognitive dissonant managed opposition plan.
Fear and Intimidation from the Leftist Press
Boo! If you oppose CommieCare the sky will fall!
Sowing fear and doubt is the best way to keep it from being repealed - and remember last November the “Republicans” ran on repealing Obamacare as their “first priority”?
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