Don't shoot! Let 'em BURN!
Posted on 11/13/2013 8:24:28 AM PST by Hojczyk
Should the GOP go along with a partial fix that will help a handful of vulnerable Democrats save their seats and a few million Americans save their insurance –for one year?
Hard as it is for me to say given the peril of those Americans, I think the answer is no, unless the Republicans drive a very hard bargain, one that includes some very apparently unrelated items, items which are indeed connected to the terribly destructive way Harry Reid has run the Senate and the president has run the executive branch.
We need the president to stop his war on the economy as well as his war on healthcare. He has to stop the EPA from gutting the energy industry. He has to negotiate on the debt.
We need Harry Reid to stop destroying the Senate and to live by the very rules he and Pat Leahy wielded against Bush judicial nominees from 2003-2006.
We need immediate relief for the DOD from the absurd sequester caps even as domestic spending remains cabined.
Mostly though we need real Obamacare reform, and not just a delay of one year. I accept the president won’t accept repeal, but he ought to accept postponement until 2017 because the very basics of the system are so deeply flawed as to prevent rollout until then, and another presidential election will allow people to focus on the law and decide whether to proceed with eyes opened.
There are plenty of smart folks who could fix this mess –like Wellspring founder Denny Weinberg and Avik Roy and many others– but they need time and the state insurance commissioners need authority. Those sorts of provisions must be part of an Obamacare bailout bill.
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WTF? No. No and No.
The GOP are as bad as the democrats.... why they couldn’t just get out of the way and let the thing crash on it’s own.
Yes, and it was Mr. Barrycade himself who changed his law in attempts to keep as much of this clunker under wraps as possible, as long as possible.
Don't shoot! Let 'em BURN!
This is an IQ test and the answer is NO, NO, NO, NO and NO.
Any positive republican action on this would be the stupidest thing they have ever done... that is only next to supporting amnesty.
However, they do need to offer an alternative. Eliminate the protection of state insurance boards and allow sale of health insurance across state lines, tort reform and a basic standard for insurance... does this sound like German health care insurance? It should.
I hate the game playing. Just permanantly destroy the individual mandate, NOW. That was Obama’s promise when he was campaigning against hillary in the primaries.
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