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Republicans to attack healthcare law funding
Thu Nov 4, 2010 2:10pm EDT
McConnell takes hard line, says wants repeal
Senate Democrats: law protects against insurance abuses (Adds Democratic reaction, analysts comments)
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader in the Senate acknowledged on Thursday they will likely have to settle for far more modest changes.
Two days after Republicans scored big victories in congressional elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against Obama's landmark law and showed no sign of compromise when the new Congress opens for business in January. "We can and should propose and vote on straight repeal repeatedly" of the healthcare law, he said.
McConnell's remarks, in a speech delivered to the conservative Heritage Foundation, acknowledged that Obama would veto such legislation, which probably would be blocked by the president's fellow Democrats in the Senate anyway.
More realistically, McConnell said Republicans, who will hold a majority in next year's House of Representatives, should aim to hobble the healthcare law by "denying funds for implementation" of the measure. Annual spending bills for agencies, including ones that implement the healthcare law, are normally written first in the House.
UPDATE 2-US Republicans to attack healthcare law funding | Reuters
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Poll: Start over on health reform
A Zogby International poll released Tuesday shows that 57 percent of Americans do not like either of the competing health care bills produced by the Senate and House and say Congress should start over, as a group of bipartisan lawmakers head to a health care.
Poll: Start over on health reform - Washington Times
March 24, 2010 6:30 PM
Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill
A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill.
The poll finds that 62 percent want Congressional Republicans to keep challenging the bill, while 33 percent say they should not do so. Nearly nine in ten Republicans and two in three independents want the GOP to keep challenging. Even 41 percent of Democrats support continued challenges.
Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
If you asked any number of the dozens of Dems that lost their job on Tuesday, they'd agree with you.Yep, the voters are just beating down the doors of Congress DEMANDING that their insurers be allowed to kick them off plans after they get sick, discriminate against them for preexisting conditions. They are just FURIOUS that the government stepped in to make sure that all children have health care, and that all adults will soon be able to purchase it.
I fixed all of that for you. You're welcome.~55% in the house, representing largest seat gain in history
A significantly larger minority in the senate
No white house - but then, it was not up for election, else it would be.
If you asked any number of the dozens of Dems that lost their job on Tuesday, they'd agree with you.
Defund it.
Erod said:Then send a repeal bill, including a newly written healthcare reform bill that people actually want, to Obama so he can veto it.
Erod said:Then do it again, and again, and again, and again. Make Obama get that veto pen out over and over.
Erod said:Then beat him by 20 points in 2012.
Impossible.
LOL, it's basically already done. Much of it is not yet funded, and now never will be.
Erod said:We'll repeal this POS when we kick him out in two years.
Yep, the voters are just beating down the doors of Congress DEMANDING that their insurers be allowed to kick them off plans after they get sick, discriminate against them for preexisting conditions. They are just FURIOUS that the government stepped in to make sure that all children have health care, and that all adults will soon be able to purchase it. :lol:
You do realize that of those people who say they don't like the bill, at least some of them are unhappy because it didn't go far ENOUGH?
Actually almost all of it is entitlement spending, which is automatic and requires no congressional vote. There are a few bits and pieces of the law that are discretionary spending which could potentially be defunded...but they are small parts of the law, and aren't really that controversial.
Sure you will. :lol:
57% did not like the Democrats health care bill and wanted them to start OVER. Is there some part of that that's not understandable?
Both Biden and Pelosi came out publicly and said they would retain control of the House. How many seats did they lose?
Yeah. Some of those 57% were people who wanted the law to do MORE, not LESS.
Well, more isn't always better. Maybe the health care changes just need to be relevant and perhaps, reduce costs - like we heard the original bill was supposed to do and then we found out it didn't because it because Congress left an unprotected copy with ideological idiots in closed rooms.
Yeah. Some of those 57% were people who wanted the law to do MORE, not LESS.
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."
- Ronald Reagan, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964
Oh please. The health care reform law is virtually identical to the law that Republican Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts. :roll:
Massachusetts Takes a Step Back From Health Care for All
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 14, 2009
BOSTON — The new state budget in Massachusetts eliminates health care coverage for some 30,000 legal immigrants to help close a growing deficit, reversing progress toward universal coverage just as Congress looks to the state as a model for overhauling the nation’s health care system.
The affected immigrants, permanent residents who have had green cards for less than five years, are now covered under Commonwealth Care, a subsidized insurance program for low-income residents that is central to the groundbreaking health care law enacted here in 2006.
Critics of the cut, which would save an estimated $130 million, say it unfairly targets taxpaying residents and threatens the state’s health care experiment at a critical time.
“It either sends the message that health care reform cannot be done, period,” said Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, “or it opens the door to doing it halfway and excluding immigrants from the process.”
Gov. Deval Patrick has proposed restoring $70 million to the program, which would partly restore the immigrants’ coverage. But legislative leaders have balked, saying vital programs for other groups would have to be cut as a result. The cut, which would affect only nondisabled adults from 18 to 65 years old, would take effect in August unless the legislature approves Mr. Patrick’s proposal.
“The governor has made a very good and compelling case relative to providing for legal immigrants,” Robert A. DeLeo, the speaker of the State House of Representatives, said Monday. “On the other hand, there is only so much money that we have.”
With tax collections down by $2.7 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30 and still dropping, lawmakers may have no choice but to make further cuts in the $27 billion budget approved this month. That makes Mr. Patrick’s proposal all the more problematic, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
If the full $130 million cut survives, hospitals that provide free care to the poor will need to spend an additional $87 million this year treating immigrants who lose their coverage, according to the Massachusetts Hospital Association. That would come on top of a $40 million cut in the state’s Health Safety Net, which reimburses such hospitals, said Tim Gens, the association’s executive vice president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/us/15insure.html?_r=1
Oh please. The health care reform law is virtually identical to the law that Republican Mitt Romney passed in Massachusetts. :roll:
And that one sucked too... just look at how well Mass. is doing with it.
You might not LIKE Romney's law in Massachusetts, but the national law's similarity to Romney's law should indicate to you that it wasn't passed by a bunch of "ideological idiots" unless you consider Mitt Romney to be a radical left-wing nutjob.
Got any evidence from a reliable source to back that up how many or are you just talking out of your backside?
Prof. Peabody said:The Relevance of Biden and Pelosi is most liberals don't know a lick about what they are talking about. That must be why so few post links to reliable sources to back up their assertions.
I'll defer to Reagan on that matter.
I didn't feel like digging too much, so here's the first Google result I got:
AP Poll: Many think health overhaul should do more - Yahoo! News
Yeah...I don't do the stupid partisan hackery stuff. I just do policy, and occasionally political analysis. If you want someone to argue with about how much liberals suck, you'll have to look elsewhere. :2wave:
The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral. On the other side, about one in five say they oppose the law because they think the federal government should not be involved in health care at all.
The AP poll was conducted by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Overall, 30 percent favored the legislation, while 40 percent opposed it, and another 30 percent remained neutral.
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