Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPRHouse Republican Leader John Boehner has said that his party will repeal the new health care law if the GOP gains a congressional majority in November.
"I think that we need to repeal the health care law and replace it with common-sense steps that will lower the cost of health insurance in America," Boehner (R-OH) tells NPR's Steve Inskeep.
If the GOP gets the majority we need to hold them to it. I hope they aren't a massive dissappointment like the party that led to a liberal majority in '06.Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPR
That's exactly what the American masses wanted to here.
Talk about giving people something to vote for... driving people to the polls... perfecto.
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You mean the health care bill that he now says has Republican ideas in it - allowing children to the age of 26 to stay on parents policy and stopping insurance companies practice of 'rescission' - when before he said those mean ol' Democrats wouldn't let them have any Republican ideas in the bill.
Taking credit after the fact, kinda reminds me of those photo-ops with the oversized stimulus checks the Republicans were handing out a few months ago.
Grassley’s Provisions for Tax-exempt Hospital Accountability Included in New Health Care Law[/CENTER]
M E M O R A N D U M
To: Reporters and Editors
Re: tax-exempt hospitals provisions in new health care law
Da: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over taxes, has worked to hold tax-exempt hospitals accountable for the federal tax benefits they receive. The health care legislation signed into law yesterday includes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards for the tax exemption of charitable hospitals for the first time. The bill requires that a hospital complete a community needs assessment once every three years and adopt and publicize a financial assistance policy; prohibits billing those who qualify for financial assistance the top rates; and prohibits a hospital from taking extraordinary collection actions if the hospital has not made reasonable efforts to notify patients of its financial assistance policy. The bill also requires the IRS to review the tax-exempt status of each hospital every three years; requires Treasury and Health and Human Services to submit an annual report to Congress on the level of charity care, bad debt expenses and the unreimbursed costs of means-tested and non-means-tested government programs; and requires Treasury and HHS to provide a report in five years on the trends on the items reported on an annual basis. Grassley made the following comment on the advancement of these provisions.
“Tax-exempt hospitals don’t have many measures of accountability for their special status. The law hasn’t given them much direction, and so they’ve defined standards for themselves. Sometimes that’s resulted in providing very little charitable patient care or other community benefits, failing to publicize charitable care to patients, charging indigent, uninsured patients more than insured patients, and using very aggressive collection practices. The Government Accountability Office and others, including the former IRS commissioner, have said for a long time that there is often no discernible difference between the operations of taxable and tax-exempt hospitals. These new provisions are modeled after principles and polices that the Catholic Health Association has had in place for years. I appreciate the association’s willingness to have honest, forthright conversations about charitable hospitals’ activities. The provisions take steps to differentiate tax-exempt hospitals from for-profit hospitals and provide further transparency about tax-exempt hospitals’ fulfilling their charitable mission. Congress, the IRS, and the public will now have additional tools and information to ensure that charitable hospitals act charitably.”
The provisions enacted in the new health care law are the result of Grassley’s leadership on tax-exempt organizations’ accountability and transparency, including hospitals. In 2005, he sent letters of inquiry to some of the nation’s largest tax-exempt hospitals. In 2006, he convened a hearing and released a summary of the hospitals’ responses. In 2007, he released a staff discussion draft of potential legislative reforms and convened a roundtable of experts to discuss the potential reforms. In 2008, he followed up with letters of inquiry to more hospitals and received a report he’d requested from the Government Accountability Office. In 2009, he drafted legislative reforms and succeeded in persuading the Democratic majority to include several of the reforms in the new health care law.
Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPR
That's exactly what the American masses wanted to here.
Talk about giving people something to vote for... driving people to the polls... perfecto.
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RyrineaHaruno said:The masses clearly want something done with the health care system...
Yes, but they'd rather see it improved. Not this.
Yes, they are part of it.The masses don't you mean just tea parties,
You did a poll! OK. That settles it.and the fact most want the health care bill passed with a public option. I did a poll about this yesterday, and so far people who have said No is equal to 42%, and the one who said yes equal to 58%.
I'll forget about what the most accurate pollster's results say.
Your scientific methodology is certainly superior to Scott Rasmussen's... and the art community is known for their quasi communist... I mean free market enthusiasm.
You win.
But just in case you are interested.. please have a seat:
60% Believe Health Care Law Will Increase Deficit, 58% Favor Repeal
Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports
"The first duty to yourself is to stop fooling yourself."
Chinese Proverb
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This is a health care law that is going to improve the system.
Please feel free to explain how this bill will do that.This is a health care law that is going to improve the system.
Hold on. Let me grab some popcorn and a beer first.
Good luck getting 67 votes on that.
It's dishonest. There is no way the GOP can mathematically get enough seats in both houses to present a bill and override Obama's veto.
Then which provisions will they try to individually repeal? Children to be allowed on their parents insurance until they are 26? Re-instituting the denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions? Which, for children or adults? The portion Grassley is taking now taking credit for?
This is a health care law that is going to improve the system.
It's nice to see that there is still hope for America :mrgreen: However, these Republicans better stick to their promises! They care too much about what the liberal media says about them and they compromise good ideas to seem "moderate." I will vote solid Republican all the way through in November, and if elected they better not disappointed me and the others who voted them in. I'm more disappointed with the Republicans than I am with the Democrats. This is great news to hear coming from the GOP, but I would like to believe it and not have to worry about empty rhetoric coming from Republitards who will flip flop once in office.
please, PLEASE boehner/GOP, PLEASE continue to market your party in this way
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of likely voters nationwide favor repeal, while 38% are opposed.
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