Stand up Republicans and vote against;
The right to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
Drop or limit coverage if you become sick.
Charge women higher premiums than men.
Seniors will lose critical prescription drug savings and FREE preventive care under Medicare.
And, add an additional $230 billion to the deficit.
So yes, maybe you should stand up and vote against HC Reform and show us again, just how beholding you are to Insurance and Pharma companies. Grandstand for the Tea Party, the people in America you have so easily convinced, that it is in their best interest to vote against themselves, so they can make your corporate financial backers wealthier.
Should House Republicans Vote to Repeal Health Care Even Though It's Just a Symbolic Vote?
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Last week, I talked about how the biggest problem with the Republican Party is not the Democratic Party, but Republicans.
Sometimes when you take a principled stand, you might lose the battle. But it's not the skirmishes, it's the war the GOP should be focused on. Republicans frequently forget that. In the ongoing fight to repeal health care legislation, this is one of those times.
Republicans should not ignore the fact that a majority of voters still don't like the national health care law that Democrats passed in March. According to Rasmussen polls, 60 percent favor repeal and nearly half are afraid that their individual coverage, which they strongly approve of, will be altered or be hurt by the new law.
And, in fact, the law has already had unintended consequences as insurance premiums are raised because companies like Blue Cross/Blue Shield are hedging their bets in connection with profits. They're not going to lose money as the government slowly forces regulations on them, the rest of us will have to pay for it.
The individual mandate is about as unpopular a regulation as you can get. The mandate, once again, has the government forcing people to pay for insurance or be penalized. See the emerging theme here? The government forcing people and the marketplace to follow some Utopian medical ideal is neither ideal nor based on marketplace solutions. Nor, some would argue, is it constitutional.
With Republicans now in control of the House, they plan next week to pass a symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare. It won't pass the Senate and President Obama is sure to veto it. Republicans know this. Democrats know this. The average voter knows this.
But it's a stand the GOP can build on. Certainly there are some good things in the law that should be kept. Republicans know that a wholesale repeal will be costly. But scaling it back is doable over the next few years. And in 2012, if they keep it up, they can win that war.
Sometimes when you take a principled stand, you might lose the battle. But it's not the skirmishes, it's the war the GOP should be focused on. Republicans frequently forget that. In the ongoing fight to repeal health care legislation, this is one of those times.
Republicans should not ignore the fact that a majority of voters still don't like the national health care law that Democrats passed in March. According to Rasmussen polls, 60 percent favor repeal and nearly half are afraid that their individual coverage, which they strongly approve of, will be altered or be hurt by the new law.
And, in fact, the law has already had unintended consequences as insurance premiums are raised because companies like Blue Cross/Blue Shield are hedging their bets in connection with profits. They're not going to lose money as the government slowly forces regulations on them, the rest of us will have to pay for it.
The individual mandate is about as unpopular a regulation as you can get. The mandate, once again, has the government forcing people to pay for insurance or be penalized. See the emerging theme here? The government forcing people and the marketplace to follow some Utopian medical ideal is neither ideal nor based on marketplace solutions. Nor, some would argue, is it constitutional.
With Republicans now in control of the House, they plan next week to pass a symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare. It won't pass the Senate and President Obama is sure to veto it. Republicans know this. Democrats know this. The average voter knows this.
But it's a stand the GOP can build on. Certainly there are some good things in the law that should be kept. Republicans know that a wholesale repeal will be costly. But scaling it back is doable over the next few years. And in 2012, if they keep it up, they can win that war.
Top Opinion
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Bronti 2011/01/08 17:46:21
CBO says that through 2019, the health care expansion would have cost $780 billion, but that would have been offset by cutting Medicare by $500 billion under the assumption that waste, fraud and abuse were eliminated.
The most likely explanation is that CBO is saying that Medicare was going to be cut regardless of whether “waste, fraud, and abuse” was ever found. Else, how could they score it? That would put the lie to Barack Obama’s claim at a joint session of Congress when he said on September 9th, 2009, “The only thing this plan would eliminate is the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud”. Of course, the mechanism for the reduction of Medicare spending was the arbitrary entity, the Independent Payments Advisory Panel (i.e. the death panel).
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says the CBO is wrong. “Misleading arguments about its true deficit impact exclude the $115 billion needed to implement the law and over $500 billion in double-counting Social Security payroll taxes, CLASS Act premiums, and Medicare reductions...
CBO says that through 2019, the health care expansion would have cost $780 billion, but that would have been offset by cutting Medicare by $500 billion under the assumption that waste, fraud and abuse were eliminated.
The most likely explanation is that CBO is saying that Medicare was going to be cut regardless of whether “waste, fraud, and abuse” was ever found. Else, how could they score it? That would put the lie to Barack Obama’s claim at a joint session of Congress when he said on September 9th, 2009, “The only thing this plan would eliminate is the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud”. Of course, the mechanism for the reduction of Medicare spending was the arbitrary entity, the Independent Payments Advisory Panel (i.e. the death panel).
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says the CBO is wrong. “Misleading arguments about its true deficit impact exclude the $115 billion needed to implement the law and over $500 billion in double-counting Social Security payroll taxes, CLASS Act premiums, and Medicare reductions,” he said in a statement. The CBO analysis also did not include so-called “doc-fix,” a cut in Medicare payments to physicians.
House Republicans have released a report documenting the real costs of ObamaCare at $2.6 trillion upon full implementation and $701 billion in new debt in its first ten years alone. “The law was written to measure 10 years of tax increases to offset 6 years of new spending. There is no question that the creation of a trillion-dollar open-ended entitlement is a fiscal train wreck,” Ryan said. Which is why it must be repealed.
It has to be revealed what is in it piece by piece...trust me..when all know, it will be dismantled!
Government spending is so out of control that we are actually on the brink of economic failure. We absolutely must get our budget and debt under control or all of the things the left doesn't want cut will be lost completely. Can you imagine what will happen if our dollar collapses? Do you think health care and social security will be better off then?
Wake up. There is a pile of bills and no money to pay them.
Health Care Reform is entirely too complex to be managed by a single one size fits all law.
Much can and should be done to allow competition among supplies and suppliers. Health care systems should be allowed to offer plans within regions if not nationwide. Such competition should drive down costs as opposed to the manipulating interference of Government into every decision of life, down to the most private counsel of patient and Doctor.
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Read and weep for what the Republicans have become.
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
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From his very own words, "But no legislation reached my desk." Why? Because the nationalized healthcare legislation is socialism. Shame on him again.
Why do you neglect Kissinger?
Here is a theory. Kissinger was the real boss, Rockefellers direct representive. He, and Haig later ran things since JFK was shot well into the 80's & set up Nixon.
Rockefeller put Nixon in the White House thinking he controlled Nixon, then Nixon tried to REALLY implement his policies, end our dependence on a war economy, improve the lot of the average citizens in health and education, and break the energy monopolies of the Rockefellers (OPEC is part of it).
But Nixon lost, Rockefeller and OPEC won, the New Deal is dismantled, the working class broken, the social clock is rolled back to 1900, and were living in a ever more alienating & militant plutocratic tyranny.
If you up there on Capitol Hill aren't going to do your job and do some real work, maybe the American people should symbolically vote your azzes out of office next term, eh?
What the Republicans should do is stop looking for ways to bring down Obama, the way they did Clinton, investigating the Clintons for everything under the sun only to catch him lying about an affair. They literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer money to censure Bill Clinton for getting an extramarital BJ. Now they say they have the same intentions for Obama. The whole Republican agenda has NOTHING to do with helping America. It's sole purpose is to bring d...
What the Republicans should do is stop looking for ways to bring down Obama, the way they did Clinton, investigating the Clintons for everything under the sun only to catch him lying about an affair. They literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer money to censure Bill Clinton for getting an extramarital BJ. Now they say they have the same intentions for Obama. The whole Republican agenda has NOTHING to do with helping America. It's sole purpose is to bring down and destroy Democrats. This law does NOT need repealing, definitely it needs fixing, but the Republicans need to start listening to the people the way they SAY Democrats have NOT been doing. Or else it's going to be an entire nations UNDOING!!!!