GOP's Health Quandary - They want the credit!!

[cbdo2007]

GOP’s health quandary
By The Hill Editors - 06/12/12 07:16 PM ET

Republicans have been talking about repealing President Obama’s healthcare law for more than two years.

By the end of this month, the Supreme Court might do it for them.

Should the justices deem “ObamaCare” unconstitutional, there will be widespread celebration in GOP circles. But the hangover afterward could be painful.

All Republicans in Congress are united on repealing the law, but they’re split over the other half of their promise: to replace it.

http://thehill.com/opinion/editorials/232439-gops-health-quandary
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They want the whole thing scrapped and then will just re-enact the most popular parts of it so they are the heroes.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I doubt that they will make any attempt at replacing any of it. These are

same guys that want to eliminate both Medicare and Medicaid.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. They are told what to want. They are being lead like lambs to slaughter and dragging us along

[librechik]

3. no, they'll talk about renewing parts of it, but then commission studies instead.

nothing will ever get passed. They are liars.

[kenfrequed]

4. I can think of a few talking points to hammer them with.

"Our secretary of state was first lady when we tried fixing this the last time and that was twenty years ago. Your party fillibustered and blocked and shouted down change. Nothing had improved and the cost of healthcare continued to rise throughout the nineties. When we tried to solve the problem your party sent loud people to shout down discussions at town meetings and the Republican controlled house attemted, once more, to block any kind of rational reform. How much longer did you want to study it before you actually do something about it?"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. What they "replace" it with won't help much

The whole thing was designed to work in tandem. If SCOTUS strikes the law down, it won't be a simple matter of just passing one or two popular provisions back into existence and have it work like it does/should under PPACA. It's hilarious that they are panicking now at the 11th hour. Getting rid of Obamacare has been their wet dream since it was signed into law but if it gets overturned by SCOTUS, I have a feeling that President Obama will be the one to have the last laugh, especially since the Republicans are trying to turn Medicare into PPACA (for seniors). It would give President Obama an even bigger argument for being re-elected with a Democratic Congress. If it gets overturned, President Obama and the Dems should hang the Republicans out to dry if all they offer to pass are just the "popular" provisions piecemeal IMHO. The one thing that Republicans have ensured that people will remember is that they HATED PPACA and wanted to get rid of the entire package without having anything remotely resembling a credible comprehensive plan to replace it.