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| Conservatives grow impatient over Obamacare, demand repeal this spring to appease voters |
| 2017-02-09 |
| [Breitbart] Jim Jordan: Further delay is ’not what we told the voters.' Congress must hurry up and repeal Obamacare this spring to avoid the wrath of voters who expected Republicans to ease the anxiety about soaring rates and dwindling insurance options in their home states, conservative lawmakers said Wednesday. Replacing the Affordable Care Act’s heavy mandates with free market reforms is crucial, they said, but it can wait. What can’t wait is a flat repeal, which the conservatives said needs to happen "within the next two or three months." "I think repeal becomes a lot more difficult if you load it down with all the heavy details involving what comes next, where we don’t have a whole lot of consensus," Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, said at a roundtable meeting hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation. He is at odds with Republican leaders, who have said they want to have a replacement in hand when they repeal the 2010 law. They say insurance markets need the certainty of knowing what comes next. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 I say we leave and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Collateral damage? That's for the little people. {snicker} |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-02-09 17:02 |
| #7 I say we leave and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-02-09 13:50 |
| #6 If the freaking congress would repeal McCarran Ferguson it would all start to work well enough that repealing the mandate would solve the most painful parts of Obumblecare(?) until a careful crafted series of repeals were inacted. McCarran Ferguson was passed in 1941 giving regulatory control of Insurance to the states. If McCarran Ferguson were repealed, insurance would come under interstate commerce and insurance could be sold across state lines and change the dynamic on rate setting. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-02-09 11:45 |
| #5 Democrats didn't wait to enact this piece of crap, Republicans should not hesitate to repeal it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-02-09 11:16 |
| #4 Don't try to do it all at once. You'll just pooch it up. Baby steps. 1) Repeal the mandate 2) Make it possible to by a plan the customer wants 3) Make it legal to sell insurance across state lines There! Was that so hard? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-02-09 11:06 |
| #3 So they only pass repeal legislation when they know the president won't sign it. Given a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually do something, they all wet the bed. Nice. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-02-09 11:06 |
| #2 I don't like this word "appease". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-09 08:29 |
| #1 Concept, plan of action, incremental timeline, implementing legislation...... where are they? Jordan smells bullshi*. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-09 06:52 |