Posted on 11/22/2010 5:13:29 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Democrat Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Republican Scott Brown (Mass.) may have found a way to take the partisan venom out of the healthcare reform debate, according to some state officials and policy experts.
The senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would accelerate, by three years, a little-known provision that Wyden included in the Democrats’ healthcare law. The change advocated by Wyden and Brown would allow states to seek waivers from some of the healthcare law’s requirements — including federal regulations that Republicans have decried as an intrusion on the states — beginning in 2014, when most of the law’s major provisions are scheduled to take effect.
The waiver would allow states to opt out of central parts of the healthcare law, including the individual mandate to buy health insurance and the employer mandate to provide it or pay a fine.
But there’s a catch: In order to receive a waiver from the regulations, states would have to meet the healthcare targets that the federal law requires. States would need to set up a health insurance system that covers at least as many people as prescribed under the federal law, and the plans would have to meet requirements for affordability and comprehensiveness.
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No.
It’s a step in the right direction, but not substitute for repeal.
Will we also be able to opt out of the onerous small-business regulation and taxation, then?
No, I didn’t think so.
This is a non-starter.
Heh heh. The Republicans do it again.
Tax collectors for the welfare state.
An excerpt:
“You don’t want to improve the bill,” James Capretta, a former Office of Management and Budget staffer, said last month at a Hudson Institute event. “The bill is unredeemable.”
Meanwhile, the opt-out states subsidixe the opt-in states. NO!
BS, trying to protect GM and the unions.
This is a joke. It merely makes a slight shift in who is intruding in our lives ... a little less federal and a little more state.
Total repeal. Nothing less.
Kill the entire Obamacare bill and start over.The Ted Kennedy trap was just get any part of a bill passed then you have a seed planted and add to it in small steps.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Likewise, neither does a democrat and a RINO. Note to all republican statesmen: By an overwhelming majority, AMERICA WANTS YOU TO REPEAL IT.
Possible bumper sticker:
Obamacare - Don’t Mend It, End It
btt
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