Paul: We probably can't get rid of 'Obamacare' - [Sep. 21, 2013 9:56 PM EDT ]

AP ^ | Sep. 21, 2013 9:56 PM EDT | THOMAS BEAUMONT

[SoConPubbie]

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Republican Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama's health care law probably can't be defeated or gotten rid of. And he's suggesting there are few ways and little time for him and other congressional Republicans to stop it.

Speaking to reporters Saturday at a gathering of Michigan Republicans, the presidential prospect said Republicans in Congress could use votes on measures in the House and in the Senate to come up with compromise legislation that could make the law more palatable. Some provisions, Paul said, include removing caps on health savings account contributions or deductibles for health policies.

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"I'm acknowledging we can't probably defeat or get rid of Obamacare," he said. "But by starting with our position of not funding it, maybe we get to a position where we make it less bad."

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Juxtapose the lack of leadership by Rand Paul on this issue with the Leadership of Ted Cruz.

They are miles apart in terms of leadership and courage.

[DannyTN]

[lormand]

What a joke. I hope all you liberTopians are proud of this weak purse swinging Paulhroid.

[ronnie raygun]

you mean the ultimate scam and criminal fraud on the American people cannot be killed? Well I guess you all may as well hand in your resignations because we are through with you

[BitWielder1]

No it has to be scrapped. You can not fix this Frankenstein's monster.
Yes it's going to cost. A lot. But keeping 0bamacare will cost a lot more.

[trisham]

I really don’t like Rand Paul.

[colorado tanker]

He is simply stating the obvious. By the time of the next presidential election the health care sector will have completely made itself over to comply with Obamacare. It will be so deeply embedded in the economy we'll have to hack it out one tentacle at a time, like recovering a building from jungle overgrowth.

For those not paying attention, this is why the last presidential election was critical - it was the last chance for a complete repeal. Those who thought not voting for Romney would teach someone a lesson are going to discover the someone was them.

[AlmaKing]

I see no excuse.

This thing is only going to get worse. It should die under its own weight.

[Regulator]

What the hell is this clown talking about?

A law that passed by screwing with the house rules, and is only still a law because the really obscene parts of it keep getting illegally deferred so as not to PO the Little People before it’s too late?

Tell this Maroon that every “Republican” in the country should be screaming “Repeal Obamacare” at every campaign stop going into 2014 mid-terms.

And MEANING it.

Jeez, is this crap for real? Huh? We live in Putinville where no matter how bad the laws are, they just don’t go away?

Seeya at the voting booth.

[FAA]

Admitting his own uselessness if not a way to endear the voter.

[VRWC For Truth]

FUBAR

[PubliusMM]

“Republican Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama’s health care law probably can’t be defeated or gotten rid of.”

Bravo Sierra! Folks said the same thing about Prohibition, and it was a damn Constitutional Amendment. It is going to take guts, grit, and a lot of fight; but, it can be ‘gotten rid of’ if folks like Rand Paul find their backbone and take up that fight.
We are not wrong to expect our elected official to do our bidding, represent us wholly and support the principles of the Founders.
Anything less is capitulation to the whims of the socialists, and the demise of the Nation.

[SoConPubbie]

For those not paying attention, this is why the last presidential election was critical - it was the last chance for a complete repeal. Those who thought not voting for Romney would teach someone a lesson are going to discover the someone was them.

Sorry, Wrong!

Romney stated during the campaign that he didn't want to do away with Obamacare, just retool it to his liking.

He also stated unequivocally that he was OK with the Socialistic Individual Mandate so we know that was going nowhere.

All Romney would have done is implement his own brand of Obamacare, a little less onerous than Obama's and still would have wrecked the best health-care system in the world jut like he did in Massachusetts with RomneyCare.

Get your facts straight before you start on the attack.

[Jim Robinson]

FURP!

[taildragger]

Juxtapose the lack of leadership by Rand Paul on this issue with the Leadership of Ted Cruz.

I am disappointed. We have how many Health-Care Systems? VA, Medicaid, Medicare, The House and Senate's Golden Plan, and now Obamacare.

And he can't come up with a Free-Market Template that all of those could be based on?

Why not let the VA be the Prototype, a VA without walls if you will, In essence a HSA with Concierge Service on the bottom end that was proposed here in Michigan by State Senator Pat Cobeck and add all the other Free-Market Reforms too it to boot?

I can think of this and he Can't?

Beam me up Scotty....

[colorado tanker]

I do have my facts straight. Romney did say he would repeal. You didn't believe him, but he said it and I think he would have. Had we won the election, he would have had no choice because Congress would have sent him the bill.

His position was inconsistent with what he did in Massachusetts, but I don't care.

[Ray76]

Get out of the way, Loser.

[lepton]

For those not paying attention, this is why the last presidential election was critical - it was the last chance for a complete repeal. Those who thought not voting for Romney would teach someone a lesson are going to discover the someone was them.

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Bingo.

[Georgia Girl 2]

If we don’t get rid of Obamacare its going to get rid of us.