Health care overhaul scores early triumph despite opposition
Source: AP
House Republicans scored a pre-dawn triumph Thursday in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but it masked deeper problems as hospitals, doctors and consumer groups mounted intensifying opposition to the GOP health care drive.
After nearly 18 hours of debate and over two dozen party-line votes, Republicans pushed legislation through the Ways and Means Committee abolishing the tax penalty Obama's statute imposes on people who don't purchase insurance and reshaping how millions of Americans buy medical care.
It was a victory of high symbolism because Obama's so-called individual mandate is perhaps the part of the statute that Republicans most detest.
Even so, the White House and Republican leaders confront a GOP and outside groups badly divided over the party's high-stakes overhaul crusade.
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n2doc
(47,953 posts)The rest is just noise.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Exactly, another transfer of wealth from the bottom up. 275 billion dollars worth of tax breaks for the rich.
I could not agree with you more, this is what repeal of Obamacare was all about.
DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)The repubs have the votes folks. I seriously don't think 3rd party or principle/purity voters realized just what they did last November. The repubs can pass whatever they want. And if they do pass their health care bill, repubs own it. Folks will die. Those with employer insurance and Medicare will see their policies go up. Folks will be kicked off Medicaid.
If there is a hell, repubs will all be rotting there.
mpcamb
(2,855 posts)their platinum healthcare program for the trumpcare coverage instead.
In fact, attach it to the bill.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)and it is the salary of the Ayn Rand Eddie Munster Paul Ryan and his fascist republican party and team, we give them a salary and health care, and all he thinks about is how to hurt people with this AYN RAND DOGMA.
We pay, the entire republican party over $43,152.000 in the house on the Senate side we pay over $9, 396.000 averaged out to $174,000 per year and they "ALL" have health care, and they want to HURT people and PUNISH them if they get sick
These FAT CATS, are just that FAT CATS hypocrites. And now the public is hearing the words death spiral and its BS from these hypocrites
And as caveat Marco Rubio who got legislation in a bill to attack the MANDATE should be called out
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/25/did-rubio-deal-a-mortal-blow-to-obamacare/
DK504
(3,847 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)this is why the ACT is in trouble, Rubio is fascists corporate smuck
I hate when they say my friends across the aisle, they are not "friends"
watoos
(7,142 posts)I bet the people who drop out would not be enough to hurt.
Even Trumpcare which allows people to not get insurance penalizes them 30% to get back in. Democrats should simply agree to that plan and the argument goes away that government forces people to buy insurance.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Don T's InfernoCare's 30-percent penalty is an effective mandate. Without a mandate, the insurance companies can't afford to do the things we like, such as women's care and the elimination of pre-existing condition exclusions.
DK504
(3,847 posts)AARP, Doctors Associations, Hospitals...no one is happy w/ this thing, except the Repukes.
March 4th
(80 posts)which means we're screwed.