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Congress Sends Health Law Repeal to White House
Some feel Obama will veto it
The Associated
Press reported yesterday that the GOP-lead Congress sent legislation to President
Obama that repeals his signature health law, the Affordable Care Act,
otherwise known ObamaCare. The bill also defunds Planned Parenthood for one
year
The
House, which passed the legislation on a nearly straight party-line vote, had
already passed the Senate in 2015 under special rules that for some reason
protected it from Democratic obstruction.
Announcing
the bill’s passage, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said, “We are confronting the
president with the hard, honest truth: ObamaCare doesn’t work.” When asked why
ObamaCare doesn’t work, Ryan said something about the fact that it doesn’t work
because it’s Obama’s idea. Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential candidate
under Mitt Romney in 2012, when reminded that ObamaCare is really an off-shoot
of RomneyCare, the successful healthcare law in Massachusetts, said, “So? When it was RomneyCare it was a good idea. But as soon as they called it ObamaCare, it became, not only a bad idea, but possibly the worst idea in the long history of ideas."
In a rare demonstration of candidness, Ryan did admit that, as the Republican Speaker of the House and leader of the Republican congressional delegation, he really is not an expert on the history of ideas, as it is a long standing Republican policy to not have any ideas whatsoever.
In a rare demonstration of candidness, Ryan did admit that, as the Republican Speaker of the House and leader of the Republican congressional delegation, he really is not an expert on the history of ideas, as it is a long standing Republican policy to not have any ideas whatsoever.
According
to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, repealing ObamaCare would result
in about 22 million fewer people having health insurance in the years after
2017. To this
point, beyond voting to repeal ObamaCare over 60 times in the last five years,
the Republicans have never developed an alternative healthcare plan. In the
face of this, Ryan indicated that’s about to change,
but just not yet, saying, “Just wait.” It is not clear what Ryan’s definition
of “wait” is.
1 comment:
Sadly all too true.
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