Senate GOP prepared to replace Obamacare subsidies

Politico ^ | 05/26/2015 | JENNIFER HABERKORN and RACHAEL BADE

[GIdget2004]

Preparing for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down Obamacare’s subsidies for nearly 7.5 million people this summer, Senate Republicans are coalescing around a plan to resurrect them — at a steep price for the White House.

With several Senate Republicans facing tough reelections, and control of the chamber up for grabs, 31 senators have signed on to a bill written by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would restore the subsidies for current Obamacare enrollees through September 2017. But the administration would have to pay a heavy price — the bill would also repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates and insurance coverage requirements.

“In that moment of what could be political chaos, we’re offering such a reasonable proposal that solves a mess,” Johnson said. “It fixes a mess caused by a sloppily written law, unlawfully implemented. All we’re asking for is a little bit of freedom back, which would be, I think, pretty popular,” Johnson said. Even Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing Johnson’s measure, along with the rest of the chamber’s GOP leaders.

Johnson, who’s got a tight race in 2016, says the legislation would be a bridge to ensure that consumers can keep the insurance they have — a promise that President Barack Obama was widely criticized for breaking in 2014.

But even if Johnson could somehow persuade Obama and Senate Democrats to accept his plan — a herculean task — the bigger problem will be his Republican colleagues in the House.

[Yosemitest]

The GOP NEVER FAILS TO SNACH DEFEAT from the jaws of VICTORY !

ANYTHING OBAMA SAYS is worthless.
Watch what he does, and not what he says.
The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants ~ and is DIRECTING the policies that regulate ALL health care plans
in the United States ~ TO FAIL !
NEVER FORGET THAT !

Many of us have said for many years that Obama is doing this INTENTIONALLY.
He using the old Soviet Plan from 1934 or earlier.




Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
AND NOW, WE CAN ADD "Establishment Republicans" TO THAT LIST, ALSO!
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are "Collapsing the System".
And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE "SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".

Flashback: Obama's Campaign to Transition to Single Payer Health Care (VIDEO)


obama master plan on health careover the years in his own words--SINGLE PAYER!!! ( 3:38 )

They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!

Lets review:

Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?

...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...

Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim
that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.

"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

The History of Medicare

In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.

Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."

Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.

The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.

...(continued at link)

So Democrats,

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR INSURING THE FAILURE
OF THE MEDICARE/MEDICAID PROGRAM,
and now YOU DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A. ECONOMY!!!

So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!!

You have no integrity!!!

Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...

"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday;
instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "

It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.

It's the Democrats Communists.

Let's take a deeper look.

Obama: "I Don't Want the Folks who Created the Mess to do a lot of Talking" "

Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!

[Red Badger]

You can’t FIX STUPID!..............................

[Diogenesis]

The EXEMPT GOP proves again why they should NEVER be trust
except, of course, to give the impostor (and themselves)
more power.

The GOP swore for votes they would eliminate ObamaCARE,
but it is RomneyCARE and they, their families, and their
staff, are EXEMPT.

[M Kehoe]

...the bill would also repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates and insurance coverage requirements.

Sorry, not far enough. Try again.

5.56mm

[Olog-hai]

The GOP-e does not regard reversing anything Obamacare as “victory”.

[BubbaJunebug]

Guess his ACU rating of 98 doesn’t mean sqwat

[lowbridge]

This is the way its really going to go down:

Obama will say, “no deal”. Give me everything I want. You get nothing in return.

The republican senators will then lay down and play dead.

End of discussion.

[TexasCajun]

...the bill would also repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates and insurance coverage requirements.

Hide & Watch as these elements get removed over White Mosque objections.

[Diogenesis]

Sorry, RINO-lover.

The GOP is finished by suicide, consisting
of empowering the Tyrant (while the People want his stopped),
enriching themselves (using ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE)
and arming al Qaeda.

Obama, Boehner, McConnell and Romney will go down
in history as criminals for destroying American Integrity,
border Security, and the idea of Family.

[Ray76]

GOP is dead.

[cableguymn]

dumb asses...

And that is being polite.

[Menthops]

Ok, when Obama vetoes (or threatens to veto) Johnson’s bill unless it is a “clean” bill, what is the GOP going to do?

Anybody care to guess?

Fold, and then send Obama what he wants.

It is high time to send the GOPe a message, and I believe the only message they will understand is the undiluted political massacre of their precious GOPe incumbents. I am probably leaving off a few names, but Johnson, Kirk, Portman, McCain, and Ayotte all need to be defeated in 2016. And I don’t care if they lose to the Democrats in the General.

It is far better to have Democrats in office than these turncoats. At least with Democrats, we (and the public) know where they stand.

[kjam22]

I have a new health care plan. Lower Medicare to age 50. Make it pay 100% for persons 50 and over. Double the taxes on everyone under 40 to pay for it. Create a mandatory government insurance program for everyone 40 and under. Make them pay for it through premiums. No one under 40 can have private insurance. Age 40 to 50 gets private insurance of their choice. Insurance companies can only insure ages 40 to 50.

I've paid enough in taxes the past few years to buy a couple of heart transplants. I'm ready to start getting something for my "investment". Full disclosure... I'm 55 years old.

[Yosemitest]

The "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" ARE DemocRATS !
They have ObamaCare DEFEATED, but now they want to "Save IT' ?

HOW STUPID CAN THEY GET ? ? ?

[axxmann]

I think that if the GOPe actually gets the individual and employer mandates eliminated, Obamacare will fail on its own...problem solved.
Tort reform and buying insurance across state lines would be icing on the cake.

[martinidon]

I don’t know, but I would venture to guess a majority of the 7.5 million people getting subsidies are not Republican voters anyway, so why fix it?

[Charles Martel]

Preparing for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down Obamacare’s subsidies for nearly 7.5 million people this summer, Senate Republicans are coalescing around a plan to resurrect them — at a steep price for the White House.

Poltroons, one and all.

[tanknetter]

I thought it was understood/established that if you kill the individual mandate you put Obamacare into an unrecoverable death spiral.

[grania]

The proposal sounds reasonable. It protects those who depend on subsidies until 2017, which is plenty of time for the private sector to come up with alternatives. It demands an end to mandates, which would mean people could choose their plan....or not.

The problem would be getting the 'pubs to stand firm against Obama.