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Good, this provides some more ammo for those seeking to oust democrats in purple cong. districts. It won’t even be voted on in the Senate though, and that is where we really need the ammo.
Thank the Republicans.
Tell the dimocrates that they are going to be unelected in November!
I have NEVER voted or supported a dimocrat ever in my life and I never will.
What a bunch of thoughtless, lackluster, powerful individuals without an ability to put together an individual thought even if self preservation was at stake.
Drones leading drones over the cliff.
Make them choke on Obamacare all the way through the election...
Rather than vote on a bill the senate as constituted won’t ever take up, why not attach it as a rider to a bill the rats want and say this far, no more. Like maybe the next credick limit increase?
So the Rats spent 5 hours complaining that the vote was wasting time?
In my opinion why they have offered up the bill to defeat ObamaCare is to make sure that those that voted nay might lose any chance of being reelected. That is the only purpose I can see since it will never be put on the floor in the Senate and we know where the communists black leader King Obama stands.
Strategy to repeal ObamaCare:
1) House passes a bill to repeal ObamaCare; Senate rejects it.
2) House passes a bill to repeal the individual mandate. The Senate passes it, because it only takes 51 votes in the Senate since the individual mandate was passed under “budget reconciliation,” and therefore cannot be filibustered. Obama vetoes it—he has no real choice.
3) House passes a bill that declares that the individual mandate is not a tax, that denies the Federal Courts jurisdiction to hear challenges to the new law, and that declares that if the courts rule that it is still a tax as a matter of Constitutional law in spite of the new law, then the mandate penalty/tax cannot be enforced.
Now the President and his party are forced to make an impossible choice: They either must acknowledge it’s a tax in a way that is political poison, or they must pass a law that effectively nullifies the Roberts ruling.
WOO-HOO!
Now the rubber meets the road. Will the house Repubs vote to not fund obamacare?
Strictly symbolic, otherwise a meaningless gesture. Too little, too late.
How they vote is what we call “information”
And facts that can be used in the upcoming election.
Yes, Louise, this is politics, and this is what politics is FOR - to let citizens make informed decisions about how they want to be governed.
Works for me.
She should know, she has been there since the beginning of time the liberal wench. She has been my congresswoman for a decade and has been useless except for getting me on Fox and Friends, Neal Cavuto and Glenn Beck. I think and hope she is toast as it looks like Maggie Brooks (R) just may take her out this year.
I got this email from one of our labor attorneys today.
It looks like the government will be removing employees from our health insurance by offering them Government Insurance. (Medicaid). ( Not to be confused with Government Motors)
This will drive down enrollment and subsequently drive up premiums (along with mandated freebies) forcing our company to abandon its health insurance benefits to its employees.
Immediate Issues
• Preparation and distribution of summaries of benefits and coverage (SBCs)
Reporting the cost of coverage on 2012 Forms Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, employers that provide health benefits to employees will need to take immediate action to comply with the new law beginning in 2012. They also should begin to consider whether it makes sense strategically to continue to offer group health plan coverage to employees in 2014 and beyond.
Join us for a webinar program discussing both the immediate impact and longer-term implications of the Court’s decision.
Immediate Issues
• Preparation and distribution of summaries of benefits and coverage (SBCs)
• Reporting the cost of coverage on 2012 Forms W-2
• Permitted uses of medical loss ratio (MLR) rebates from insurance companies
• New administrative fees payable by health plans to the federal government
• New limits for health care flexible spending accounts for 2013
Strategic Considerations
• Beginning in 2014, all individuals will have an opportunity to purchase individual health insurance from a state exchange. If (as expected) the exchanges provide viable health care coverage alternatives, employers will need to decide, from the financial and human resources perspectives, whether to continue to offer employer-sponsored group health insurance coverage to employees. The Affordable Care Act contains a dizzying array of financial incentives and penalties that are relevant to an employer’s choice.
• Permitted uses of medical loss ratio (MLR) rebates from insurance companies
• New administrative fees payable by health plans to the federal government
• New limits for health care flexible spending accounts for 2013
Beginning in 2014, all individuals will have an opportunity to purchase individual health insurance from a state exchange. If (as expected) the exchanges provide viable health care coverage alternatives, employers will need to decide, from the financial and human resources perspectives, whether to continue to offer employer-sponsored group health insurance coverage to employees. The Affordable Care Act contains a dizzying array of financial incentives and penalties that are relevant to an employer’s choice.
Hopefully, Kissell’s and McIntyre’s vote will not give them “cover” for being re-elected and possibly resulting in voters who vote for them also voting a straight Dem ticket in the Fall.
The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act was never declared unconstitutional. Nevertheless, confronted by the wrath of angry seniors, Congress had the good sense to recognize they’d goofed, so they repealed the law in its entirety. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/9/3/75.full.pdf
The lesson is clear: when members of Congress feel sufficient wrath from voters, they do the right thing.
What’s the verdict?