Health care overhaul scores early triumph despite opposition

[Zorro]

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.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-panel-nears-health-bill-090847390.html

[n2doc]

1. The part they most detest is the tax on the rich

The rest is just noise.

[watoos]

5. Bingo Bango Bongo

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]

2. Remember

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]

6. As a Double-Dog-Dare-Ya, some Dem should propose that the Congress give up

their platinum healthcare program for the trumpcare coverage instead.

In fact, attach it to the bill.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Yet the mandate was the Heritage Foundation's plan

http://americablog.com/2013/10/original-1989-document-heritage-foundation-created-obamacares-individual-mandate.html

[turbinetree]

4. What is remarkable is that the taxpayers pay a MANDATE

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]

8. I'd love to see Bernie go after his colleagues.

[turbinetree]

10. Every Democrat in Congress should be yelling at what Rubio did

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. Democrats should step forward and agree to drop the individual mandate

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]

11. The mandate is critical

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]

9. Every major medical association has slammed this BS "health" care monstrosity.

AARP, Doctors Associations, Hospitals...no one is happy w/ this thing, except the Repukes.

[March 4th]

12. Even worse, Bill Kristol predicts it'll fail...

which means we're screwed.