Scott Walker: I will repeal Obamacare on Day 1 of presidency
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
4 hours ago By Molly Beck | Wisconsin State Journal
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Presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker, center, talks with two men after he presented his health care plan on a visit to Cass Screw Machine Products in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Tuesday.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he would scrap President Barack Obamas signature health care law on his first day in office and replace it with a health insurance system that relies on refundable tax credits based on age instead of household income to help individuals pay for health coverage.
Walker said repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, would free up $1 trillion in levied taxes. Coupling that with savings from the reorganization of Medicaid would pay for his new plan, he said. But he offered few other details about cost estimates, timeline or the number of people affected.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing Obamacare would kick 19 million people off insurance in the first year. Walker did not say what would happen to coverage for those people if his plan was not yet in place, and he did not take questions from reporters.
He spoke at Cass Screw Machine Products in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Company president Steve Wise told reporters his company has a private small-group health plan, and has seen health insurance premiums grow by 36 percent this year. He supports replacing Obamacare, but also said its not realistic to repeal it the first day of a new presidential administration without a new plan in place.
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Unless his god gives him a boost-by the looks of his falling poll numbers--Walker will never have a Day 1-
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)If so, any President can cancel any law he or she doesn't like.
I'm under the vague impression our system doesn't quite work that way.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)under another?
Of course. And there is quite a bit of executive authority as well, if one chooses to use it.
Could make things very bad very, very quickly.
pampango
(24,692 posts)all bets are off.
Springslips
(533 posts)Shows how ignorant Walker is.
brush
(53,968 posts)And like there would be no Dems in the Congress to stymie a no-nothing repug rookie president.
CrispyQ
(36,552 posts)Just remembering one of those candid camera segments some late night show host did, asking people on the street if they supported Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. A few smiled and said, "Clever," but most said "The ACA for sure!"
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)riversedge
(70,414 posts)snap his fingers and they pass any bill he so desires. Unless we gain back control of the Senate (if by chance he or any Repug makes it to the WH)--he may just have to snap his fingers. but perhaps he does not know of the 60 vote rule. He is rather stupid--cunning bur stiupid IMHO
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Walker already has hurt a lot of 'regular people' with his state policies.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Now, go get back in line with the rest of your GOP loonies.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)Wanker is going to be busssssyyyyyy.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)He can not personally repeal a law.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)lark
(23,182 posts)Walker getting elected would plunge this nation into a never-ending nightmare, he's worse than GW. I'm sure day 2 he'd start a war with Iran, one-upping both of the Bush's.
Marthe48
(17,087 posts)like all the of stone-age repukes, stuck in the past, unaware of the present, unable to see the future. Their greedy stupidity is sucking our country down into a bottomless quagmire.
Kingofalldems
(38,503 posts)Can't believe Wisconsin voters put him into office.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Romney had promised so many things on "Day 1" Jon Stewart calculated that his Day 1 would have to be 27 days long!
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)look like they are scared out of their skulls.
alc
(1,151 posts)Unfortunately there is a precedent for the president to be able to put off parts of the ACA (e.g. the employer mandate) for years. My biggest problems with some of the "adjustments" that have been made to the ACA is that if President Obama can do it with Democrats in congress accepting, what will they say if the next president is a republican who decides to delay/suspend parts of the ACA. He/she can give all the same reasons President Obama has given to delay/suspend almost any part of it.
procon
(15,805 posts)A con artist.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)"Eww, I don't want the same health insurance as some sick person. Gross."
- The Republican agenda for healthcare.
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 19, 2015, 05:49 PM - Edit history (1)
would have enough votes in the Senate to stop that right in its tracks. But to be sure a president if he or she wanted to could do considerable damage to the ACA through various tactics. But outright repeal would be very difficult.
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)1. House (GOP controlled) Passes ACA repeal couple days before Inaguration
2.Senate (GOP controlled) would use the Nuclear Option to remove the Filibuster on Inauguration Day
3. Senate passes ACA repeal to go with House Vote
4. Day after Inauguration, "President Walker" signs ACA repeal
5. Day after ACA Repeal, GOP Senate votes to put Nuclear Option back in place
Very scary scenario
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)But the new president will not be inaugurated until January 20. So by the time the next president takes office the Republicans will have probably lost their Senate majority. The Senate would be in a position to block any repeal of the ACA. In the 2016 election the Republicans will be defending 24 seats and the Democrats only 10. And it will be a presidential election where Democrats usually fair better than in midterm elections. The odds that the Democrats will retake the Senate are pretty good.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He'll repeal the Constitution.
Yavin4
(35,453 posts)And getting their drink orders?
tblue37
(65,524 posts)absolute monarch. Trump thinks the president can impose tariffs, Huckabee thinks he can call out the National Guard to stop women from getting a legal medical procedure, and Walker thinks the president can repeal a law that has been passed by congress, signed be a previous president, and repeatedly judged by the USSC to be constitutional.
Unfortunately, American voters don't seem to understand how our government structure is supposed to work, either.
dhill926
(16,380 posts)Obamacare safe for the foreseeable future