"More Republicans Push For Fixing, Not Repealing, Obamacare"
More Republicans Push For Fixing, Not Repealing, Obamacare
by Eric Whitney at NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/31/269433141/more-republicans-push-for-fixing-not-repealing-obamacare
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But now he's striking a different tone. "We're not going to get rid of that bill, and so we're going to have to devise ways to make it work," Donohue said at a recent news conference.
Some business reporters called that change in tone "a striking about-face" and a "Nixon Goes to China moment."
But Forbes opinion editor Avik Roy doesn't agree. "He [Donohue] didn't say that he opposes repeal," Roy says about Donohue's recent statement. "He just didn't think repeal was realistic in the next several years."
Business groups, such as the chamber, have to be pragmatic and deal with the world as it is, not as they'd like it to be, Roy says. That's why the chamber is now focusing on changing specific parts of the health care law that its members don't like, rather than repealing it.
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