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Cigar
02-05-2016, 02:00 PM
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Source: Bloomberg News

Republicans in Congress are exploring a way to enact a repeal of Obamacare and other parts of their agenda soon after a new Republican president takes the oath of office in 2017.

Several Republicans said they’re discussing the possibility of adopting a budget this year that would let the next president’s agenda -- including top goals like repealing Obamacare -- bypass a Democratic filibuster at the very start of the year. Republicans used a similar move early this year to send a bill repealing much of Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood to President Barack Obama, who vetoed it.

The strategy would allow Republicans who control the House and Senate to put just such a bill on the desk of a new president if their party wins the White House, without having to grind through months of budget process. To succeed, Republicans need the Senate parliamentarian to let them use rules set by a budget resolution into the next Congress.

“It could be pretty powerful if it works,” said John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Senate Republican. “We haven’t yet concluded one way or the other.”



http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-05/republicans-eye-quick-obamacare-repeal-if-party-wins-white-house
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Perfect Timing for the NH Primaries .... :laugh:

Bo-4
02-05-2016, 03:07 PM
It will be fun to see the reaction when they yank insurance out from under 17 million newly insured Americans.

Heh!

suds00
02-05-2016, 03:11 PM
and replace it with what?those with pre-existing conditions who are now covered will not thank you!

Matty
02-05-2016, 03:13 PM
Republicans don't need to repeal Obamacare! Just take the mandate and tax penalty out of it.

Bo-4
02-05-2016, 03:18 PM
Republicans don't need to repeal Obamacare! Just take the mandate and tax penalty out of it.

Why Matty Boy? The Heritage Foundation thought those were AWESOME ideas!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/#4d84f9d6621b

Peter1469
02-05-2016, 03:23 PM
Why Matty Boy? The Heritage Foundation thought those were AWESOME ideas!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/#4d84f9d6621b


Warning: don’t call members names.

midcan5
02-05-2016, 04:24 PM
Another reason why they will lose this election. One wonders how republicans win anything at all? A few answers are in book quoted below.

"Even more than Romney, his anointed running mate, the young Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan, espoused extreme policies. Consider Ryan's proposed budget plan. A version passed the House of Representatives in the spring of 2012 on a near party-line vote, thus making clear during the campaign season the Republican Party's priorities. Talking of budget deficits in apocalyptic terms, Ryan proposed huge cuts to Medicaid, a program that covers the medical expenses of many disabled and elderly Americans-cuts so deep that potentially 28 million people would have lost medical coverage." He further proposed reducing food stamps for poor families and college aid to students. Perhaps most explosively, he advocated converting Medicare's guarantee of health care for the elderly into a system of vouchers with a fixed value, which would have effectively ended the guarantee of medical care and left many retirees struggling to cover rising costs in their waning years. In all, 62 percent of his budget savings were to come from cuts to aid to the poor-a figure that does not include the savings from restructuring Medicare." "More than any other politician today:' Robert Reich wrote in a scorching rebuke, "Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today's Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves. Dog eat dog."

Pushing beyond reducing social spending, Ryan's budget threatened to suffocate the federal government overall. According to a Congressional Budget Office report, Ryan's budget path anticipated by 2050 the virtual end to all federal government aside from Social Security, a much-reduced health care system, and an engorged defense establishment. "That includes [cutting] everything from veterans' programs to medical and scientific research, highways, education, nearly all programs for low-income families and individuals other than Medicaid, national parks, border patrols, protection of food safety and the water supply, law enforcement, and the like."76 Ryan and the GOP seized on supposedly dire budget deficits to justify drastically shrinking the federal government "down to the size where it could be drowned in a bathtub:' to retrieve Grover Norquist's imagery. To this extent, the budget was a fake, a set of ideological commitments in the form of budget, but completely unworkable as a genuine fiscal blueprint. Few believed that cuts this draconian would be enacted, let alone indefinitely sustained. Nevertheless, Ryan's budget was completely genuine in indicating hostility toward government as a political priority.... Even more than Romney, his anointed running mate, the young Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan, espoused extreme policies. Consider Ryan's proposed budget plan. A version passed the House of Representatives in the spring of 2012 on a near party-line vote, thus making clear during the campaign season the Republican Party's priorities. Talking of budget deficits in apocalyptic terms, Ryan proposed huge cuts to Medicaid, a program that covers the medical expenses of many disabled and elderly Americans-cuts so deep that potentially 28 million people would have lost medical coverage." He further proposed reducing food stamps for poor families and college aid to students. Perhaps most explosively, he advocated converting Medicare's guarantee of health care for the elderly into a system of vouchers with a fixed value, which would have effectively ended the guarantee of medical care and left many retirees struggling to cover rising costs in their waning years. In all, 62 percent of his budget savings were to come from cuts to aid to the poor-a figure that does not include the savings from restructuring Medicare." "More than any other politician today:' Robert Reich wrote in a scorching rebuke, "Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today's Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves. Dog eat dog." p164 'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López