Posted on 11/14/2013 6:31:08 AM PST by george76
As Democrats on Capitol Hill are growing increasingly angry with the White House over problems with Obamacare — and increasingly uneasy about their individual fortunes heading into 2014 — Colorado Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday became the latest Democratic lawmaker to introduce legislation to change the beleaguered Affordable Care Act...
With support building for a plan introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, that would allow people mislead by the president”s promise to keep their plans to actually do so indefinitely, Udall has come up with a scaled down version that would allow policyholders to keep their current plans, being cancelled under the new law, for two years.
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Like Landrieu, Udall faces reelection in 2014 .. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, who also signed onto her bill.
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state Rep. Amy Stephens of Monument.. who is leading the field when it comes to sending out the most anti-Obamacare press releases, brushed off Udall’s proposal as a transparent ploy to save his job.
“Sen. Udall’s legislation is nothing more than a phony political ploy that will only temporarily delay insurance cancellations instead of actually stopping them ...
“When Sen. Udall promised Coloradans they could keep their health insurance, he didn’t put a time stamp on it, but today, he offers a half measure that is simply insufficient and politically motivated. It’s clear that Mark Udall is more interested in putting off the disastrous consequences of Obamacare until after his re-election campaign instead of actually standing up for Colorado families, which requires repealing this law and replacing it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
If you like your current plan, you can keep it. Period. Until after MY next election. That’s a pretty stupid law to pass, particularly stupid for the GOP if they let the far left fringe off the hook. They should once again vote to repeal ObamaCare, and then let the Dems and Dem voters live with the consequences of this terrible, 100% Dem law.
Two years, lets hope Udall is not around by then.
Idiotic attempts to apply a band aid for a dismembered limb.
ACA deemed the policies unlawful. The states and insurance companies complied.
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