Posted on 03/12/2014 10:08:48 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
House Republicans are considering a bill this week that delays the enforcement of ObamaCare's individual mandate penalties for five years, and uses the savings to prevent a cut in Medicare doctor payments for 10 years.
The two ideas are likely to be combined into a single bill: the Sustainable Growth Rate Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act, H.R. 4015. That bill repeals cuts to physician payments, and allows for small increases over 10 years.
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The con-artist challenge by Democrats to RINOs to “Fix” the failed Federal Medical Insurance Law, Obamacare, is now approaching a decision point: April Fools Day, 2014.
Always eager to do nothing unless it is something that might make the Democrats hate them less, the GOP Establishment is actively searching for ways to help “their best friends across the aisle” on the failed Obamacare Law which is set to fail April Fools Day, 2014.
The GOP-E has recently picked up Romney’s “Torch of Tyranny” (Romneycare), and are happily working on their own version of Federal Medical Inurance called “RINOcare.”
Will the TEA Party Reps. in the US House rise up and replace “Doormat for Obama” Boehner, and then ABOLISH the RINOcare replacement of Obamacare, or will everyone just sit on their hands and be happy to be everybody’s fool, again?
Romney is hoping that Boehner’s RINOcare prevails, as it will allow Romney to run again as the GOP-E Nominee in 2016.
BTW, why are so many RINOs so determined to continue the financial destruction of America by advocating Federal RINOcare?
Obamacare has proven to millions of Americans that Federal Medical Insurance will always be doomed to fail, a lesson ignored by our sorry Federal RINOs.
FORWARD !
[BTW, have you ever noticed that the Obamanation command “FORWARD !” is ALWAYS towards the Financial Cliff?]
Repeal it!
Relax. Harry Reid will kill it in the Senate. Meanwhile ObamaCare will CONTINUE to haunt the Democrats.
Seems like timing is a bit off. It would make far greater sense to propose it before the 2014 elections.
Republican House leadership is an embarrassment. Bohner needs to go. He’s hurting the party and hurting the nation. He’s putting himself before the nation.
YES!
If you went to a bank for a loan, with a business plan one tenth as f&^%ed up as the ACA, they’d laugh you out the door.
But somehow, these idiotic GOP nitwits think a ‘fix’ exists out there, to change this monstrous, deformed, legislative sham into a law, which will have the equivalent credibility and force of REAL laws, which are proposed, debated and voted upon with all regard for the requisite protocol and legitimacy!!!
R E A L L Y!!!!!!!!!!!!????
Obama has already extended it in an attempt to minimize its impact. Think about what the effect is if the dems vote against a further delay before the 2014 elections. More sinkage.
Repeal is impossible while Obama is president, so best to suck out as much juice as possible in the current mess democrats created.
I know he has delayed, but as Dick Morris recently outlined, that does not help in a lot of the states that are competitive, because these states never signed on to the first optional round of delays for insurance companies to keep substandard plans. These states include Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Minnesota, Oregon, and Virginia. The state insurance commissioners have already rejected the delays.
Yes, let’s all live in limbo for another ten years with this POS law.
Chalk another one up for the Stupid Party.
Anytime you have the means and the opportunity to defund the left or any leftist government program, YOU MUST TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF IT!
The Republicans need the delay so that the pressure to repeal will abate. Republicans don’t want to actually repeal the thing any more than Democrats do. They will vote repeal in the House over and over again because they know it won’t go beyond that. Republicans have looked at the inherent corruption characteristics of this law and like what they see.
All you say is good analysis, but this proposed tactic is simply to force the democrats to vote on something that appears to offer relief. Few people beyond political junkies know the info that you provided. But it’s easy to understand the idea that dems voted against personal relief and against Medicare doctors.
It’s just that there is nothing substantive that can be done while Obama is president, even with Republican control of both houses. So, why not embarrass the people who rammed this mess down our throats?
Well, they just sure as hell got embarrassed in Florida.
Delaying it leaves all the bureaucrats and machinery in place and makes it much harder to repeal it, which is, I am sure, the aim.
Calm down. Do you even know what you are talking about?
The House has voted 40+ times for full repeal over the past three years. Its position has not changed.
This bill is to force Dems to vote for or against Medicare cuts.
The bill is dead in the Senate, anyway.
This is just good politics to get these crappy RATS on the record. Either way they vote, they make part of their constituency angry.
“Dont delay it. Let it sink them!”
Really. The GOP ain’t got enough sense to just get out of the way. Obamacare is doing a fine job dying all by itself.
They should delay the mandate for two years, as already ordered by Obama, tinker with other details one by one to match the commands from our lawless White House, and somewhere in the middle of the list repeal Public Laws 111–148 and 111–152. If I worked on a congressional staff, I would try to get on a conference committee to slip the line repealing Public Law 111–148 and Public Law 111–152 into an obscure paragraph of a bulky must-pass bill. It would be sleazy, but sleaze in a good cause is exactly the right response to the sleaze used to pass this evil law.
Yup. Fun to watch. Hope the Republicans are ready to govern positively, with something to offer.
An individual mandate delay forces the commies to vote against it. The likely commie defense will be to “reform” or “fix” 0-care. Repealing the mandate or delaying it for a long time will fix 0-care for good.
It won't be difficult for them to oppose it at all. And oppose it they will.
Stupid move by the stupid party.
Who gives a flying %^$& about political “theater” or Political points?! It matters not one iota! Repeal this POS that is not only destroying the best healthcare system in the world, but ruining peoples’ lives. No one is going to remember anything that happens this far away from the election, and the longer these pussies take to repeal the law the less likely they will do it. Instead of getting the Demonics to vote for or against Medicare cuts, do the same for repealing the law, something 70% of the public agrees with doing.
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