Obamacare faces new threat at state level from corporate interest group ALEC
Source: The Guardian
With Obamacare still in crisis from its botched technical rollout, the signature reform of the Obama presidency faces threats from state-based politicians who have devised a strategy to scupper the federal health insurance exchanges.
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The idea for the new attack is the brainchild of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), a group that acts as a dating agency for Republican state legislators and big corporations, bringing them together to frame rightwing legislative agendas in the form of model bills.
A new Alec proposal, approved by its annual meeting in Chicago in August and published as a model bill for adoption by state assemblies across the nation, would scupper the federal health insurance exchanges set up under Obamacare. The Health Care Freedom Act, as Alec calls its model bill, threatens to strip health insurers of their licenses to do new business on the federal exchanges should they accept any subsidies under the system.
Alec justifies the measure as a way to protect local employers from the employer mandate the provision in Obama's act that penalises employers with more than 50 workers who do not offer any or sufficient healthcare cover for their employees. However, health insurance experts say that were the model bill to be taken up widely by Republican-held states, it would seriously disrupt the federal exchanges, and in turn put the whole health reforms in peril.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/obamacare-alec-republican-legislators
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)hedda_foil
(16,374 posts)Although being bound for eternity, face to face with Satan in the innermost pit of the frozen ninth circle of Dante's inferno might come close.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,032 posts)We need the non-functioning Congress and MSM to do their job.
They are too focused on CYA.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)Pres. Obama, Sec. Sibelius, the ACA administration and Democrats better really start talking and acting like political combatants.
The best defense is a good offense.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,444 posts)a paper in the U.S.?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Anyway, from the linked article:
State Legislators Guide to Repealing ObamaCare
http://www.alec.org/publications/the-state-legislators-guide-to-repealing-obamacare/
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)Obama should have NEVER compromised on the public option, trusting the insurance company industry and their cohorts to play along. Just like Harry Reid trusting Turtle man on the filibuster.
One of the complaints I have about the Dems intellectual abilities, are that they consistently end up as Charlie Brown, with Lucy pulling the ball away.
We've seen this movie before.
Obama and the Dems need to do something significant NOW! (What, I do not know!).
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)States run by republicans offer a significantly lower quality of life to their citizens than states run by Democrats. How is this supposed to work exactly? Do republican governors and legislators really think their citizens will just sit there when they see better health care, higher wages, and safer working conditions in adjoining states?
Welcome to the New Confederacy of Dunces...
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)Everywhere we turn, there are Chuck and Davey. Too bad their
presence is not for the betterment of Humanity. Just think what
we could accomplish with their help.
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Every last member, in a large shipping container. Like reverse slavery. Let's just dump our junk population in the desert and leave them without phones or credit cards. See how they like the "survival of the fittest" model when it's them against nature and nasty things traipsing around in the dark.