Jan. 12, 2011 - The First Vote To Repeal The Debacle Known As Obamacare!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

This is going to be interesting/funny...

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010305520.html

House Republicans have set Jan. 12 as their day to vote on a repeal of President Obama's health-care law, after a midterm election in which they campaigned against the landmark legislation as a government takeover of the health industry.

The announcement Monday sets up the attempted repeal of the law as the first significant action by House Republicans in the 112th Congress. With 242 members on their side, Republicans expect to pass the legislation easily, but they privately acknowledge that the measure faces a high hurdle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

"Obamacare is a job-killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs," Brad Dayspring, spokesman for incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), said in a statement.

The repeal legislation will be a brief document that simply revokes the law. Obama signed the measure in March after a legislative battle that lasted nearly a year and proved politically bruising. Democrats have since suggested that it was worth the fallout.

Although many Democrats distanced themselves from the legislation during the November elections, some liberals want to use this next phase as a chance to reframe the debate in their favor, particularly as the effects of the legislation begin to kick in this year.

"Republicans want another debate about health-care reform? Well, so should Democrats. They beat us in round one with lies and scare tactics. We welcome a second shot," said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).

And Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the outgoing speaker, said in a post on Twitter, "While Dems are focused on job creation, GOP is fast-tracking repealing patients' rights & Rx help for seniors."

GOP leaders often advanced a "repeal and replace" theme during the 2010 campaign. A day after Republicans won control of the House in November, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who will replace Pelosi as speaker, signaled a slow approach to the repeal by saying that Republicans must "lay the groundwork before we begin to repeal this monstrosity."

Instead, they will pass their repeal legislation a week after the start of the new Congress.

A key element of the legislation, the mandate that all individuals buy health insurance, will not take effect until 2014. Other portions took effect Saturday, with the dawn of the new year, including one that provides discounts to Medicare beneficiaries for the purchase of prescription drugs - covering what is commonly known as the system's "doughnut hole."

In a Monday letter to Boehner signaling that they have no intention to consider the repeal, Senate Democrats cited a repair of that hole as a key provision that must be allowed to take effect. "This proposal deserves a chance to work. It is too important to be treated as collateral damage in a partisan mission to repeal health care," Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and other Senate Democratic leaders wrote.

That sets up a likely showdown over the funding of some of the provisions, including money that would need to be allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to fund the legislation's implementation.

[The_Dude 1,142]

How is this remotely interesting or funny? This is a fait accompli, plain and simple.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

How is this remotely interesting or funny? This is a fait accompli, plain and simple.

credit for trying either way. It's a ####### bill that should have never been passed to begin with. If the courts know what's good for them, they'll throw the bill down the toilet, but if we didn't have hack president, they wouldn't have to....

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A day after Republicans won control of the House in November, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who will replace Pelosi as speaker, signaled a slow approach to the repeal by saying that Republicans must "lay the groundwork before we begin to repeal this monstrosity."

Instead, they will pass their repeal legislation a week after the start of the new Congress.

That's the real story here. There was a power play within the GOP and someone other than Boehner won. Question is, who?

That repeal will never pass as long as Obama is President is obvious to all.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A vote for repeal means a vote to kick those that gained coverage options under the law off that coverage, it's a vote telling seniors that the relief on their prescription drugs is out the window, a vote to tell parents of children with pre-existing conditions that their kids no longer have a right to health insurance coverage. And so on and so forth. A really popular vote that's going to haunt those casting it in less than 2 years. I can see the commercials already.

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A vote for repeal means a vote to kick those that gained coverage options under the law off that coverage, it's a vote telling seniors that the relief on their prescription drugs is out the window, a vote to tell parents of children with pre-existing conditions that their kids no longer have a right to health insurance coverage. And so on and so forth. A really popular vote that's going to haunt those casting it in less than 2 years. I can see the commercials already.

Failed votes rarely come back to haunt. That's exactly why they will do this, because they know it won't go anywhere.

Now elect a President Huckabee in 2012 with Republican majorities and watch them go into Medicare D Part II mode. You will get a decent product, because no way they are screwing people over while in power.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I think the bill is a piece of ####### as well Paul. All it essentially does is hand a government mandated monopoly to the health care insurance companies. Way to go lobbyists.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

A vote for repeal means a vote to kick those that gained coverage options under the law off that coverage, it's a vote telling seniors that the relief on their prescription drugs is out the window, a vote to tell parents of children with pre-existing conditions that their kids no longer have a right to health insurance coverage. And so on and so forth. A really popular vote that's going to haunt those casting it in less than 2 years. I can see the commercials already.

you mean a right to not pay hardly a dime and take between tens of thousands, if not millions from a company?

Again, the bill was wrong, very wrong in every way. It attacked insurance, forced the hand to make pharmaceutical companies make millions more dollars, and left people out in the cold with premiums higher than ever.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

you mean a right to not pay hardly a dime and take between tens of thousands, if not millions from a company?

Again, the bill was wrong, very wrong in every way. It attacked insurance, forced the hand to make pharmaceutical companies make millions more dollars, and left people out in the cold with premiums higher than ever.

Hey, I urge the GOP to cast this vote. And many more like them. It'll make their success of 2010 shorter lived than the success that the Dems had starting in 2006. Go for it!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Hey, I urge the GOP to cast this vote. And many more like them. It'll make their success of 2010 shorter lived than the success that the Dems had starting in 2006. Go for it!

That opinion right there is the problem with America today. Blind, political hack igorance. I don't mean just that one, I mean it in a generally speaking manner.

If either party thinks this health care bill was a 'good' bill, then they are dumber than a toothpick in a hillbilly's mouth.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That opinion right there is the problem with America today. Blind, political hack igorance. I don't mean just that one, I mean it in a generally speaking manner.

If either party thinks this health care bill was a 'good' bill, then they are dumber than a toothpick in a hillbilly's mouth.

The bill wasn't good - no surprise there since it's essentially the GOP drafted health care reform proposal from 1993.

Now, I would not have any issue with the GOP coming up with a reform bill that will offer solution to this mess we call a health care system. It's what one would expect from the majority party in the House. Where is that proposal?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

That opinion right there is the problem with America today. Blind, political hack igorance. I don't mean just that one, I mean it in a generally speaking manner.

If either party thinks this health care bill was a 'good' bill, then they are dumber than a toothpick in a hillbilly's mouth.

In the end its not much different than the Democrat's recent votes in December in the House. It will create a talking point 2 years from now: "Hey, look voters we the GOP tried to repeal Healthcare...we failed, but at least we tried and didn't break our promise etc. etc."