Democrats hit GOP plan for replacing Obama health care law

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By ALAN FRAM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan by three Republican lawmakers for replacing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul would leave Americans with less coverage and higher costs than the landmark law they want to repeal, Democrats said Thursday.

"It effectively raises taxes on the middle class, removes bedrock protections for consumers and chips away at key coverage benefits that Americans rely on," Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said a day after the GOP authors released their outline.

"Republicans are trying to put politics first, put power back in the hands of insurance companies rather than patients," said Washington Sen. Patty Murray, leading Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Democrats have lambasted Republicans for promising to repeal and replace the health care overhaul virtually since its 2010 enactment yet failing to advance a substitute. Republicans face growing pressure to suggest a replacement plan because 19 million Americans will be covered under Obama's law this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates.

FULL story at link. See this post from earlier today: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141007034




Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who also serves as the Senate's president pro temp ore, returns to his office following votes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Sen. Hatch and other Republican lawmakers eager to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are touting tax credits and greater leeway for states and health insurers as the GOP unveiled its first plan this year for replacing the law that the party reviles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)


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[padfun]

1. If they succeed in abolishing the ACA

I would think we would see lots of riots and stuff. They are squeezing the working class dry.

[still_one]

4. i don't think you would see that. People, especially in red states

Have been voting against their own interests for years, or worse they don't even vote

It isn't only red states, look at Wisconsin, or the last midterm elections

If what the republicans are doing is a surprise to anyone they haven't been paying attention because the republicans have not hidden their intentions

[groundloop]

2. WE HAD DAMNED WELL BETTER GET OUT THE VOTE IN 2016

If gopers somehow take the White House and hold onto Congress we're screwed. The first thing they'll do is kill the filibuster, then they'll repeal the Affordable Care Act and put us back at the mercy of giant insurance companies. Instead we need to get our collective asses out to register more new voters so that healthcare has a chance to move closer toward single payer.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. We get a choice between two 1%'ers. One lives to compromise, and the other one never does.

[Cryptoad]

3. Lets do the Math,,, the GOP Math on this,,

take away health insurance for 19 million = 19 million highly pissed citizens = 15million highly pissed eligible voters = 5 million highly pissed voters looking to extract some measure of revenge against the GOP. Even the GOP Math don't look good!

[davidpdx]

5. Even better math is the fact that if the bill passed the House and Senate

they won't get the one vote that matters...President Obama. So it will just make them look like the partisan hacks they are.

[Nye Bevan]

6. The most brutally heartless feature of the Republican replacement plan

is that there is no more guaranteed issue, unless you maintain continuous coverage. Some people are just not organized or are forgetful, and there are inevitably people who will not renew and then be sentenced to bankruptcy or death because they develop a chronic condition.

[riversedge]

8. At this time--the 'plan' is not written as legislation--it is only a plan....

they have a LONG way to go to even begin to call it a 'bill'.

[father founding]

9. Book of Moron.

You can see the "Bishop" drooling.