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Is the Affordable Care Act in serious jeopardy?
CBS News ^ | November 17, 2013 | Jake Miller

Posted on 11/17/2013 6:57:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

With an eye on the 2014 midterm elections, a growing number of Democrats are voicing concerns about the insurance cancellations and website problems that have plagued the debut of the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges - a phenomenon highlighted Friday when 39 House Democrats broke ranks to support a GOP-authored bill that the White House said would undermine a "central premise" of the healthcare law.

It was a remarkable show of disunity from Democrats, who have splintered every which way in reaction to the Obamacare's rocky debut. And it raises an uncomfortable question for congressional Democrats who voted overwhelmingly in 2010 to approve the Affordable Care Act without any Republicans in tow: Will they have the political fortitude to stick to their guns and fend off changes to the law, or will a vulnerable caucus begin to accept alterations to a bill they've steadfastly safeguarded for years?

Despite the anxiety among her troops, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives insisted Sunday she isn't fretting about the law's future.

"I don't think it's in trouble," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. "I think we just have to remain calm, get through the website getting fixed, clarify some misrepresentations about it."

"It's the law of the land," she added. "It's an important health, stability issue, security issue for the American people, and I believe that in a matter of months many more people will see that."

She dismissed the 39 Democratic votes for the GOP's proposal to prevent insurance cancellations by extending 2013 plans through 2014 as a "political" maneuver, noting that a similar number of Democrats joined Republicans on dozens of earlier votes to repeal or alter the law....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; obama; obamacare; pelosi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It’s the law of the land,” but if we have learned anything from Obama, it’s that laws are meant to be broken.

Once Pelosi gets looped into a lie, she never gets out of it. She is still telling people this fascist boondoggle is going to be affordable.


21 posted on 11/17/2013 7:21:45 PM PST by pallis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's play Baghdad Bob or Nancy Pelosi....first question:

"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying"

22 posted on 11/17/2013 7:27:51 PM PST by Red Dog #1
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To: Fee
A strip down individual policy that runs a person 300 USD a month (commission 3 percent) or a ACA mandated policy of 600 USD a month

That is flawed logic.

If you want to use those premium levels as an example...that is per person, per month. In the case of a family, take it times three...or four. Additionally, it could triple to $900 per life per month.

Great commission, too bad nobody can afford it.

BTW...in Maine, it's already around $400.

23 posted on 11/17/2013 7:30:51 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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the democrats will throw enough money at it to make it through the 2014s and then it will collapse..


24 posted on 11/17/2013 7:32:00 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"It's the law of the land," she added . . .

...so was just fugitive slave act.

25 posted on 11/17/2013 7:37:27 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: newnhdad

the democrats will throw enough money at it to make it through the 2014s and then it will collapse..


You are dreaming. It’s not going to collapse on it’s own. The kenyan will just continue making @$@# up as he goes along to keep it alive.


26 posted on 11/17/2013 7:45:41 PM PST by lodi90
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Central premise? What’s the central premise- to throw the majority out of their current health insurance plans so they can be forced into dictated plans where they are grossly overcharged for mandated coverage they have no need for.


27 posted on 11/17/2013 7:50:34 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It’s the law of the land,” she added.

So was Plessy v Fergeson. What’s your point?


28 posted on 11/17/2013 7:51:55 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Guess that you missed this-http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3071936/posts


29 posted on 11/17/2013 7:57:21 PM PST by matthew fuller (Americans deserve better than an illegal alien communist from Kenya.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Either it is or America is.....
Can’t have both.......


30 posted on 11/17/2013 8:09:05 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign is for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t worry, the fascists in the GOPe will save Obama Care.


31 posted on 11/17/2013 8:13:56 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: matthew fuller

Yeah, some uber-RINOs voted like the RATs they are...that is hardly a “rally” to save HusseinCare.

A lot of bad juju has happened since September.


32 posted on 11/17/2013 8:24:44 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: digger48
You mean idiots like Winston Churchill?

1942: "It is not even the beginning to the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

So tell us einstein, what do you know, besides nothing, and what have you done, besides nothing, that puts Churchill to shame?

33 posted on 11/17/2013 8:26:16 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: JohnBrowdie

Our immigration laws are the “law of the land”, but I don’t see Pelosi concerned with enforcing those laws.


34 posted on 11/17/2013 9:06:46 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: cripplecreek
I’m betting there are a lot of democrats worrying about Ted Cruz’s newest warnings.

Forgive my ignorance but, what are Ted Cruz's newest warnings? Or, is there a link I can go to and read it? Ted Cruz is my Senator. The other Senator, here in Texas, is a John McCain clone.
35 posted on 11/17/2013 9:17:45 PM PST by Din Maker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Is the Affordable Care Act in serious jeopardy?

Is the Pope Catholic?
36 posted on 11/17/2013 9:17:45 PM PST by Din Maker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My guess is in the end after the dust settles the individual mandate and policy coverage minimums will die quietly.

The policy of mandatory acceptance of people with preexisting conditions will stay as well as the expanded Medicare/Medicaid roles and as such Obamacare will be hailed as a landmark piece of legislation.

And as costs skyrocket then the Dems/MSM will blame the RINOs for skewering a perfectly good piece of legislation and putting the people in jeopardy all for politics.


37 posted on 11/17/2013 9:25:02 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I think you nailed it.


38 posted on 11/17/2013 9:44:38 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Fee

I agree, Fee, this is exactly what I have been saying over the last few days. The insurance company is now not your friend.


39 posted on 11/17/2013 10:08:05 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: hinckley buzzard

You know damn well what I meant.


40 posted on 11/18/2013 4:58:55 AM PST by digger48
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