GOP-led House again targets Obama health care law

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health care law is back in Republicans’ legislative crosshairs as the GOP-led House weighs a bill that would impose new requirements on the administration.

Despite White House opposition, the House was expected to approve the measure on Friday as emboldened Republicans kick off an election-year challenge to the troubled 4-year-old law. The GOP’s laser-like focus on “Obamacare” reflects the party’s certainty that the law’s well-known problems will pay political dividends in November’s midterm contests.

“These measures are a part of a broader effort to protect the American people from the consequences of this disastrous law,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters on Thursday. “The president doesn’t want anyone to see what’s taking place with this law. But the millions of Americans being hurt by it, frankly, have a right to know.”

The goal of the Affordable Care Act is to expand coverage to tens of millions of Americans who lack insurance, lower health care costs, increase access to preventive services and eliminate some of the pre-existing conditions that insurance companies have used to deny coverage. The health care website HealthCare.com got off to a calamitous start on Oct. 1, followed quickly by widespread reports of canceled policies and higher premiums.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/10/gop_led_house_again_targets_obama_health_care_law/

[SpankMe]

1. Republicans are just obsessed mother-fuckers. n/t

[Swede Atlanta]

2. We'll see if they now just nibble at the edges......

or return to their full frontal assault to repeal.

I would welcome rational, reasonable proposals to IMPROVE the ACA or a proposal to scrap the whole thing and move to a single-payer system.

I do not welcome nit-picking that does nothing more than provide for political theater and waste taxpayer money because the proposals are not going anywhere.

[Mass]

5. The leadership is favorable to nitpicking. Not sure what the rank and files want though.

It is clearer and clearer that they have stopped trying to repeal the law (even if they mention it in some documents to please the base). It is unclear what would happen however if they got the Senate.

[Aristus]

3. Oh good. That's a relief.

I was afraid they were going to do something that was a complete waste of time and tax-payer money...

[Mass]

4. Yes,and it goes to the idiocy of Democratic leadership as they could not make a point

against the bill (given that the bill does nothing, it is hard to state that it hurts) but still opposed it.

Not surprisingly, 67 Democrats voted YES. Why should they vote NO and get attacked for a bill that does not do anything.

The most stupid argument was: there has not yet been a breach, so why should we do something.

I am not arguing that the bill is useful, just that Democrats should choose their battles.

[catbyte]

6. Christ on a cracker. Still stuck on stoopid. Repeal ACA, Abortion, Planned Parenthood

Lather, rinse, repeat, to infinity.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Don't forget ACORN

that still continues to appear in their bills for defunding.

[catbyte]

9. How could I forget?!?

[LongTomH]

8. Gee, you don't expect them to actually DO something, do you?

Like present their own health plan, or a jobs bill, or raise the minimum wage?