Healthcare Reform Repeal Vote Scheduled

[GoodWitch58]

I sure hope so.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Voting update...

House Republicans are set to vote Wednesday on repeal of the healthcare law, keeping a central campaign pledge while delivering an opening salvo in what will likely be a two-year battle with President Obama.

The vote to roll back Democrats? signature domestic achievement of the 111th Congress is scheduled to occur some time after 5 p.m., and both Republicans and Democrats held closed-door meetings Wednesday morning to hone their final arguments.

 

[scooterbug44]

I hope it doesn't pass and remains just for show.

While the bill is imperfect, it does help a lot of Americans and makes some much needed changes/reforms.

IMO Boehner just hates it because it taxes tanning beds.

 

[AndrewG]

Funny how everyone agrees it's crap bill. Repeal it and rewrite it. Obama is going to be all alone if he's forced to block the repeal if it passes the House and the Senate.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Senator Reid said it won't come to a vote so I doubt it makes it to Obama. The one problem I have is that you have Boehner saying we need to repeal the bill, but is unwilling to put a schedule out for replacement of some of the things that all (or almost all) agree are needed. Here are his thoughts...

?I don?t know that we need artificial deadlines set up for the committees,? Boehner told reporters. ?We expect them to act in a official way, allowing all of their members on their committees to be heard ? Democrats and Republicans.?

IMO, real leadership is to repeal and then have replacement bills in the queue to fix some of the existing problems (like existing conditions exclusions- pun intended). Not to say in essence, we will repeal and then wait days, weeks, months to fix the problems.

 

[poppy]

Funny how everyone agrees it's crap bill. Repeal it and rewrite it. Obama is going to be all alone if he's forced to block the repeal if it passes the House and the Senate.

You and who else?

Bill Frist believes it is a foundation to build on and shouldn't be repealed and it seems many Americans are coming around and ignoring the Republican BS.


First Read - NBC/WSJ poll: Public divided on health law and repeal

The poll also finds that 46 percent of respondents are opposed to repeal (with 34 percent strongly opposed), while 45 percent support the repeal effort (with 35 percent strongly in favor).

 

[scooterbug44]

Funny how everyone agrees it's crap bill. Repeal it and rewrite it. Obama is going to be all alone if he's forced to block the repeal if it passes the House and the Senate.

I didn't say it was crap, I said it wasn't perfect - which most legislation isn't - and that no BETTER solution had been presented.

 

[30ashopper]

The repeal vote is just symbolic. The real work begins as they start to negotiate other legislation. If Obama wants to get anything done over the next four or maybe even six years he'll have to agree to curtail the largess of ObamaCare. The House has him over a barrel. It'll only get worse for him in two years as republicans will likely take control of the Senate as well.

 

[Geo]

The repeal vote is just symbolic. The real work begins as they start to negotiate other legislation. If Obama wants to get anything done over the next four or maybe even six years he'll have to agree to curtail the largess of ObamaCare. The House has him over a barrel. It'll only get worse for him in two years as republicans will likely take control of the Senate as well.

Shirley, you jest.

No one knows election outcomes two years down the road. Would you have predicted what happened in November just two years ago? Or what happened two years ago two years before that?

2 years in politics is like 12 hockey seasons. In that amount of time the Mighty Ducks have time to build a dynasty.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Senator Reid said it won't come to a vote so I doubt it makes it to Obama. The one problem I have is that you have Boehner saying we need to repeal the bill, but is unwilling to put a schedule out for replacement of some of the things that all (or almost all) agree are needed. Here are his thoughts...

IMO, real leadership is to repeal and then have replacement bills in the queue to fix some of the existing problems (like existing conditions exclusions- pun intended). Not to say in essence, we will repeal and then wait days, weeks, months to fix the problems.

I somewhat agree; although I think that real leadership would be to take the portions they genuinely have an issue with; draft up new proposals and present those as replacement...before they grandstand with an offensive bill title and saying they are having this vote "because we promised we would". I think what they promised was to do something about the portions of the bill people have a problem with...not just to have a vote for the sake of having a vote. Real leadership IMO is actually taking a principled stand on an issue and working it through the system...