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Dems give Obama ultimatum: Fix health plan cancellations by Friday
Fox News ^ | November 13, 2013

Posted on 11/13/2013 11:57:37 AM PST by Zakeet

House Democrats delivered a fix-it-or-else ultimatum Wednesday to President Obama, giving his administration until Friday to find an affordable solution for the millions of Americans losing their health plans under ObamaCare -- or risk some Democrats backing a Republican solution.

The ultimatum from President Obama's own party is another sign of the unrest within the Democratic caucus about the cancellation notices. The end-of-the-week deadline is significant, because House Republicans are planning to call a vote Friday on a bill that would extend current policies for another year.

It's unclear whether Democrats would go so far as to support that bill if the administration does not offer a Plan B. But one senior Democratic source told Fox News that, at a closed meeting Wednesday, Democrats made clear to the administration that they need a proposed fix before Friday's vote.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; democrat; healthcare; obamacare; zerocare
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To: Zakeet

Actually if we had a legit impartial media in this country instead of a communist propaganda machine, it would be that witch Nancy Pelosis ass on the fire as well as she pushed this Obamination more than anyone. “Ok Nancy it was passed and we see what’s in it - a disaster”


61 posted on 11/13/2013 1:07:38 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: ZULU
THEN, when they get control of the House and Senate in the fall out in 2014, IMPEACH that bastard Barrack HUSSEIN Obama.

YES!! 2014 - The Impeachment Election!!
62 posted on 11/13/2013 1:09:02 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Zakeet

“restless democrat cockus”——I’m pretty sure that’s covered somewhere around page 1999 in Kenyan care. Them boys are going to have to suck it up and take their medicine. I’m pretty sure the dose is taken rectally-—kind of like jamming a ballot box into a crooked election-—or was it erection?

The House Republicans are going to get a great opportunity to role back a bunch of dumb stuff if they can just stand to get it together.


63 posted on 11/13/2013 1:11:55 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Zakeet
Yes indeed!

Let's just back this Obamatanic ship up and show that iceberg who's boss.

64 posted on 11/13/2013 1:12:24 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: MrChips

I noticed Jarrett came out talking this morning——that’s how bad it is. I expect she told the Kenyan “I’ll take it from here.”


65 posted on 11/13/2013 1:15:00 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: clintonh8r
FUBARack

LOL! A perfect moniker for the Blamer-in-Chief!

66 posted on 11/13/2013 1:16:15 PM PST by ssaftler (Obama speaking is like the Fat Lady warming up: "Me Me Me Me Meeee")
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To: N. Theknow

The House leadership should convene the Rules Committee tonight and vote on Upton a day earlier than expected.

Give the House RATS their only chance to vote on a legislative fix BEFORE Obama announces a regulatory fig leaf on Friday, specifically designed to give the RATS political cover.

Vote ASAP on Upton.


67 posted on 11/13/2013 1:16:24 PM PST by mwl8787
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To: esoxmagnum
Should just tell Reid what Reid has told the House since 2010. NO! You guys voted on this bill "THAT MUST PASS IN ORDER TO SEE WHAT'S IN IT". So maybe you Senators should have taken a little more time to read this bill because this is YOUR MESS!

I would also throw Obama's words back at him. Hey Obama, the House is not going to vote on anything that will result in another mandate. "You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election."
68 posted on 11/13/2013 1:17:02 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Zakeet

Don’t fix it. Let is crash and burn. This is the only way we can get the country back to sound governance.

“Fixing” it further destroys the country.


69 posted on 11/13/2013 1:17:43 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: Zakeet

Any Republican who helps the Democrats fix ObamaCare should be fixed themselves. As in spayed and neutered.


70 posted on 11/13/2013 1:19:14 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Zakeet

All they gotta do is trick the peasants until November 5, 2014...


71 posted on 11/13/2013 1:23:59 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: MrChips

Adding a tagline is easy. When you post next time, take a look below your reply, there is a field for your tagline.


72 posted on 11/13/2013 1:28:51 PM PST by Kenton
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To: SeaHawkFan
The only fix that should be on the table is a complete repeal or defunding, which is a repeal.

Yep

73 posted on 11/13/2013 1:30:09 PM PST by ecomcon
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To: Mashood
Taxpayers deserve their 643 million dollars back!

I have seen this amount floating around before, but I have only seen official numbers of $293 million.
74 posted on 11/13/2013 1:30:16 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Kenton

OK thanks


75 posted on 11/13/2013 1:35:28 PM PST by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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To: 21twelve
More like “Let them keep their old houses that are already destroyed.” My insurance company has already given me the notice that they have cancelled my plan and will roll me over into a Obamacare compliant (and more expensive) plan.

Even if things get extended for a year, plans that were already cancelled are cancelled. Even if the insurance companies re-offer those plans, people would be getting on NEW plans, and pre-existing conditions from the old plans would not be covered.

Those people who got diagnosed with cancer or some other condition would be well and truly screwed, and would have no choice to go Obamacare.

76 posted on 11/13/2013 1:52:26 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“Those people who got diagnosed with cancer or some other condition would be well and truly screwed...”

I hadn’t thought of that part. Evil, greedy insurance companies. /s


77 posted on 11/13/2013 1:56:32 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Zakeet
Shortly, we'll see a proposal from the dems increasing the subsidies people receive to compensate for the increased costs of Obamacare. It's the only way out for them, without killing the program or siding with republicans.

In for a penny, in for a pound. The dems will solve this issue by spending more money that they don't have. And when the republicans balk at the increases subsidies, all hell breaks loose again. No way the dems walk away from this first step on the road to single payer healthcare.

78 posted on 11/13/2013 2:04:32 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

If I was the GOP, I’d be flooding the air waves right now, framing the debate. I’d run 30 second spots that just say “If you want to keep your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan. Period.” And show the president saying it a few times at different events. Then at the end, show his clip where he scolds the house and says “Elections have consequences”. Maybe toss in Pelosi and her “you gotta pass it to see what’s in it”, I dunno.

Just simple, keep it at that.

I’d run those ads in every battleground state until ‘14.

But of course, the GOP won’t, instead they’ll do whatever they can to hinder anyone running against their darling establishment girlfriends, be them D or R. That’s all the establishment wants, to keep the status quo, it doesn’t matter if it’s a donk or elephant, just so long as they are a “team player”.


79 posted on 11/13/2013 2:10:20 PM PST by esoxmagnum ( Some hide in bunkers when there is trouble, others run towards the trouble.)
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To: Zakeet

I watched part of the hearings today. The Obamacare bureaucrats acted like, or were told to act, as if everything will be fine in awhile, don’t worry.

One rep asked one tech head was the system fully tested. The tech guy said, what do you mean by “fully”? The rep just laughed.


80 posted on 11/13/2013 2:22:46 PM PST by Rennes Templar (America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.)
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