House Republicans to Delay Obamacare Replacement Rollout

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

House Republicans are delaying the rollout of their alternative proposal to Obamacare, according to lawmakers and aides involved in the process.

The issue is one of “policy, trying to get it all together,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said when asked why a planned April unveiling was being pushed back.

The Republicans had said they would release the outlines of their proposal to replace President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care law over the two-week congressional break later this month at town-hall meetings with constituents.

Instead, a Republican leadership aide said the rollout will occur at an unspecified time later this year. Republican leaders are set to meet this week to discuss their plans, McCarthy and Conference Chairman Cathy McMorris Rodgers said.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-08/house-republicans-to-delay-obamacare-replacement-plan-rollout.html

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In fairness, they've only had five years to "get it all together".

[onehandle]

1. They are too busy worshipping the new glory suit. nt

[doc03]

2. Other than taking insurance off of people that

got it with Obamacare what could they do? They sure won't go with single payer. The only thing they could do is the same old tort reform and selling insurance across state lines bullshit. Been there done that.

[subterranean]

13. You are right.

Tort reform and selling insurance across state lines. After all this time, that's still all they've got.

From the article:

McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking House Republican, said the combined Republican replacement plan will probably include an expansion of health-savings accounts while allowing consumers to purchase insurance across state lines.

The plan also would probably change health-care liability rules to reduce litigation and malpractice insurance costs for doctors and hospitals, she said last month in an interview with Bloomberg News editors and reporters in New York.

[doc03]

15. Oh I forgot the old health-savings account scam, more money

for Wall Street and the Banksters to gamble with. What could possibly go wrong there?

[arcane1]

3. Five years to come up with an alternative, yet they whine about a website that started out glitchy.

Typical.

Probably waiting for Frank Luntz to somewhow make "tort reform" and "tax cuts" sound all medical-y.

[Stallion]

6. Its Goin' To Take More than 5 1/2 Years For Republicans to Get It All Together

we won't hear another thing about it until AFTER the election

[arcane1]

11. Exactly. They wanted this thing dead long before the mid-terms, and now it's too late.

They are well aware that those 7 million people also have close family members who vote.

[geretogo]

4. I can guess what their alternative proposal will be . Each uninsured person will get a coupon book

printed in China with coupons for 10% off to take to your Doctor and
Hospital . You will have to pick up the coupons at your local Republican Committee
Headquarters and agree to worship in prayer with Pat Robertson before they will
give them to you .

[freshwest]

16. Yeah, but we can't call the GOP a bunch of fascists. It'd hurt their precious feelings:

[geretogo]

19. I love it . I would love to have that for my cars back window . It is so so so so true !!

[penultimate]

5. Apparently the "Everyone Except The Wealthy Die" plan didn't focus-group too well.

[Historic NY]

7. If anyone believes that bullsh-t then...

they either morans or idiots. Obamacare passed March 23, 2010...they didn't have anything then and they don't have anything now.

[Gore1FL]

8. What? Another extension? n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. Huh?

[Gore1FL]

31. The GOP have been complaining that Obama kept extending deadlines for the ACA

I am making fun of them for extending their own deadlines to produce the replacement.

[cheapdate]

9. This would not be their first replacement "rollout".

They did one a year or so ago. It was a product of a "Republican Study Group". It would have been laughable except for the cruel consequences of their stupidity. It died a quiet death, unloved and unmourned.

[olddad56]

10. The House Rethuglicans don't know whether to scratch their watch or wind their asses.

Our freedom lies in their ineptitude.

[hatrack]

12. I remember that nice lady from the PTA who said they "have plans"!

You know, the SOTU rebuttal?

[QuestForSense]

14. Yes! Cathy McMorris Rodgers, one and the same.

She was full of shit back then, and she's still just as full.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

17. KEvin McCarthy is still the whip?

I heard there were pictures of him found blowing the koch bros.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Not gonna happen. Haters gonna hate, not create!

[SoapBox]

20. Delayed? It's because it does NOT exist!

What assholes.

[Vogon_Glory]

21. House Republicans: Trust us! There really is a pig in our poke. N/t

[JoePhilly]

22. How do you delay "doing nothing". Amazing.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. Repeal and Replace they've been saying for three years, but they have no replacement

That's the current Republican governing policy in a nutshell: lack of preparedness to govern, lack of policy experience, lack of good sense, and lack of honesty. Or, to put it slightly more bluntly: they're know-nothing liars.

[davidpdx]

28. Yep, they've tried to repeal it over 50 times now

Yet they can't come up with a single damn detail as it what they'd replace it with. Know-nothing liars describes them well.

[Nye Bevan]

25. Here's their problem.

"My opponent wants to allow insurance companies to once again discriminate and deny coverage based upon pre-existing conditions" is a devastating one-liner in a campaign commercial.

[dicksmc3]

26. Rollout???

I guess they couldn't have it completed by the April 1st date to coincide with the Ryan Budget. I would definetly like to attend a Repug town hall when they try to explain "THEIR" plan compared to Obamacare!! But, unless your invited to one of their town halls forget about it!! I hope some recently insured person with Obamacare stands up to these repug idiots and tells them in so many words where to go!!!

[tanyev]

27. Skeered of being greeted with tar and feathers at the town-hall meetings?

Mmm?

[workinclasszero]

29. Rethugs replacement for ACA is

Be rich or fuck off and die scumbags.

[RDANGELO]

30. This is going to be interesting.

We have all these people with preexisting conditions that are now getting health insurance. If they include that in their plan then they are going to need a mandate, taxes, or some way to pay for it. If they don't include it, they will be throwing all those people under the bus. It's possible they could come up with a plan including it, but not specify how they are going to pay for it.

[bigdarryl]

32. There roll out is Obama care they were for it before they were against it

When the black President liked the idea