Posted on 11/30/2010 1:31:44 PM PST by RobinMasters
House Republicans are looking to repeal the healthcare reform law and replace it with one of their own early next year without interrupting two popular parts the administration has already begun to implement.
They include a mandate that bars discrimination of pre-existing conditions and a stipulation that allows young people to remain on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
Incoming Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that they would do this by passing a GOP healthcare bill at the same time as repeal efforts are underway.
Speaking to more than 100 students at American University, Cantor said, "What you will see us do is to push for repeal of the healthcare bill, and at the same time, contemporaneously, submit our replacement bill, that has in it the provisions [barring discrimination due to pre-existing conditions and offering young people affordable care options]."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“When I was 26 I was a police officer, a father of two and a husband for 8 years.”
i hear you. when i was 26 i was married and commanding a tank platoon in the bundesrepublik.
I don't understand the strategy
Yes, but that's because you don't understand how the Republicans have helped to create the situation we are in.
What Cantor means by "the parts that are popular" is, "the parts where we get to spend other people's money". The parts he is willing to do away with are the parts where the money is raised to pay for the benefits he wants to keep.
Ever since prop 13 started the whole corrupt tax cuts without spending cuts GOP game, the Republicans have been willing participants in a dance with the Democrats, and the only losers have been the shrinking productive sector.
OF COURSE Cantor won't repeal the whole bill. He'll keep the benefits, and cut the taxes.
What did you think a TARPer like Cantor would do?
Sounds like good parts to keep to me.
If you have a pre-existing condition and then buy a plan that pays to treat that condition at a premium rate that does not cover the costs of doing so then what you have purchased is not insurance, it is welfare.
The House nd Senate republicans wanted the HC bill to pass, and they really don’t want to repeal the damn thing. They are mostly all socialists.
The House and Senate republicans wanted the HC bill to pass, and they really don’t want to repeal the damn thing. They are mostly all socialists.
Why buy "insurance" when you are healthy when you can just wait until you are sick?
Tell me why Michele Bachmann is not Speaker of the House?
Now there’s a Republican with a brass set.
Why isn’t she the one meeting with the Usurper?.....She would smile and tell him his Commie-Death care is DOA.
Investigations into communist and un-American activity start when we assume power. Put some ice on that lip, Barry.
Why not 106!
For months I’ve been comparing the pre-existing conditions element in the bill to the government requiring that fire insurers sell fire insurance on a house even if it was already on fire. Apparently that is a good analogy because Rush Limbaugh used it today.
Scroll down. There are a number of people posting here that do not understand the concept of adverse selection.
No compromise. You won, now knock down THAT wall!
The war needs to begin within our own ranks. The "pre-existing condition" issue seems to be confusing plenty of FReepers.
TO THE 112th US CONGRESS
END THE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT, AND ALL OTHER ENACTMENTS AS DEEMED BY THE 111th CONGRESS.
NANCY PELOSI REIMBURSES THE TAXPAYER FOR ALL FRIVOLOUS TRAVEL ON MILITARY PLANES (FAMILIY FRIENDS AND PETS) AND NANCY PELOSI REIMBURSES FOR ALL FLOWERS AND BOTTLED WATER.
YOU HAVE 100 DAYS TO CHANGE THE DIRECTION THAT THE IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAS STRIVED TO ACHIEVE.
IN THAT 100 DAYS -
OBAMA’s ALL RECORDS ARE RELEASED.
OBAMA WILL NOT GO ANY TRIPS ABROAD.
CONGRESS WILL CUT SALARIES TO ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO 1986 PAY SCALE.
THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE REDUCED.
ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WILL HAVE AHEALTH INSURANCE THAT THEY PAY ENTIRELY OUT OF THEIR POCKET.
NO LIFETIME BENEFITS
401K RETIREMENT PLANS
NO MORE BAILOUTS
THE CONGRESS WILL WORK FOR THE ENTIRE 100 DAYS WITH NO VACATIONS
BY THE WAY CONGRESS CRITTERS YOU FAIL TO DO ANYTHING THAT HELPS THIS COUNTRY, WE THE PEOPLE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO RUN YOUR ASSES RIGHT OUT OF TOWN SEIZE YOUR ASSETS AND THROUGH YOU OUT OF THIS COUNTRY PERMANENTLY
SINCERLY
JOHN Q PUBLIC
“I think the pre existing condition is an issue that should be fixed.”
But then why not just wait until you KNOW you need it? A solution to enable portability makes snese to me.
“But companies shouldn’t be forced to pay for insurance for 26 year old dependents.”
The buyer pays for the insurance. If you add (or fail to remove) a 22 year-old, then you’re getting more coverage and probably paying a higher premium. And it’s a pretty healthy cohort. So I’m not sure it’s a net loss to the inscos at all.
Mabye we can clean the swamp of the rest of these anti American politicians with Tea Party members in 2012...
Cantor, you are an unabashed asshat! You need to feel the wrath of Kong!
afraid to lose their precious Independents if they start taking away the goodies I guess...
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