rssHouse Republicans plan vote to repeal Affordable Care Act
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 11:25 am
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House Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on January 12, one week into the 112th Congress. The bill is called “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” “Job-killing” is mentioned four times in the two-page bill.
An accompanying resolution instructs relevant committees on how to replace the bill with twelve suggestions. Here are numbers 2-6:
This is all exactly what the Affordable Care Act does or will do: It provides an exchange for people without employer health insurance or who were previously uninsurable due to pre-existing conditions, allows those with employer health insurance to keep their plan, establishes modest pilot programs to deal with malpractice reform and increases the number of people with health insurance thanks to the individual mandate and more affordable coverage.
Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse blasted the plan in an e-mail: “Barely a week after they take the oath of office, Republicans are going to ram through a bill over the objections of millions of Americans to deny people access to affordable health care – a bill impacting one sixth of the American economy – without a hearing, a committee markup or testimony from a single witness.”
House Republicans have changed budget procedural rules from PAYGO to CUTGO. In other words, $1 of new spending now can’t be offset by $1 in raised revenues — $1 in new spending has to be offset by a $1 cut somewhere else. This rule change means that the Affordable Care Act — which cuts the deficit by $143 billion over ten years mainly thanks to increased revenue and some Medicare Advantage cuts — doesn’t actually reduce the deficit as much under these rules.
9 Comments
Comment posted January 4, 2011 @ 5:40 pm
I think this is an example of the Republicans attempting to leave office the first week they are actually in office. What a brilliant idea to attack something thousands of Americans are benefitting from. I would respect congress people much more if they would focus their energy on education so we can all be a bit smarter in the future.
Comment posted January 4, 2011 @ 5:40 pm
I think this is an example of the Republicans attempting to leave office the first week they are actually in office. What a brilliant idea to attack something thousands of Americans are benefitting from. I would respect congress people much more if they would focus their energy on education so we can all be a bit smarter in the future.
Comment posted January 4, 2011 @ 6:11 pm
Just another pompous pronouncement by a pack of politicking Republicans that makes clear their intent to further widen the gulf of opportunity between a few of the greediest hoarders of the nation’s wealth and everyone else.
In pandering to piggish plutocrats that own them and their seats, Congressional Republicans are willing to herd the American people into the same sinking boat by blocking the creation of good jobs at good wages to build and maintaining the nation’s infrastructure, to pull the rug of retirement from under the elderly, to curb educational opportunities for young people, squeeze the life out of broadly available and affordable health care, to totally destroy organized labor, outsource government services to business interests that pay low wages and poor benefits, to siphon more from the tax base and into the pockets of their wealthy benefactors, to trash the environment on the cheap, and to abet the further finance of a global economy that feeds off servile labor—it’s all so cheap and that’s what everything’s all about.
So prepare to enjoy life on the cheap with a new dictum affixed to the Great Seal of the United States reading “Poverty-R-US”—this brought to fruition by the Republican race to the bottom. To wit, if you can’t raise all boats, sink ‘em!
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Comment posted January 5, 2011 @ 7:03 am
Let us take an example of Texas. The “Wise Health Insurance” is quite popular in Arizona. It provides so many offers for the low income people.
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Comment posted January 5, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
This isn’t the only thing they should go after, their is so much more jobs, taxes etc…
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Great Post, I’ll try to check back often if you keep writing like this, please keep it up….
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