Collins urges Barr not to work to kill Obamacare

[DonViejo]

By BURGESS EVERETT 04/01/2019 12:01 AM EDT

Sen. Susan Collins wants Attorney General Bill Barr to reverse the Justice Department's aggressive move seeking to obliterate the Affordable Care Act.

In a letter to Barr sent Monday, the Maine Republican argues that if the Trump administration wants to change the health care law, it should come to Congress and ask. Otherwise Barr's department should be defending the law from a lawsuit seeking to cripple it, she says.

"Rather than seeking to have the courts invalidate the ACA, the proper route for the administration to pursue would be to propose changes to the ACA or to once again seek its repeal. The administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass Congress," Collins wrote to Barr, whom she supported in his confirmation vote in February.

Collins said in an interview last week that she doesn't believe Republicans have any viable plan to replace Obamacare in a divided government, and her missive to Barr amounts to some of the harshest internal blowback yet that the Trump administration has received for supporting a lawsuit last week aimed at bringing down the law.

President Donald Trump is using the new legal threat to Obamacare to pressure his party to come up with an alternative to Obamacare and become "the party of health care." Republican senators, Collins included, say they want to see a plan from the president before moving forward with anything.

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[Baltimike]

1. Don't worry...she'll fall in place...she ALWAYS does. nt

[mercuryblues]

2. Yup

She slithered right by where she says, but he told me he would not do that. The sternly worded letter. By the time she uses the word "concerning" she'll be on board.

[kacekwl]

3. You have a vote Ms. Collins.

Use it this time.

[hatrack]

4. About as effective as a sea urchin trying to do sign language with its spines . .

Nobody else in the tide pool gives a damn, Susan - we sure as shit don't care.

[gratuitous]

5. Isn't that just the cutest?

Susan thinks some people still buy her "concerned" act. And the Senate Republicans "want to see a plan from the president before moving forward with anything." Precious, just precious.

[NewJeffCT]

6. oh, a concerned letter

that'll do the trick.

[JDC]

7. Does anyone take her seriously, about anything?

She is a joke.