Republican representative says Obamacare cannot be repealed
A couple of days ago Republican Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers said that Obamacare could not be repealed and was here to stay. Here is more:
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said it’s unlikely the Affordable Care Act will be repealed.
“We need to look at reforming the exchanges,” the Eastern Washington Republican said Thursday.
This is sure to draw the ire of Republican and conservative voters, as well as those Republicans running on repealing and replacing Obamacare, but the fact is, whether you like it or not, she is right. Obamacare is here to stay and if the voters wanted to rid themselves of Barack Obama’s signature legislation the last chance to do so was during the 2012 election before the mandate went into effect.
Barack Obama knew this as well and that is why he refused to delay the individual mandate even though he knew the healthcare exchange website was not ready for prime-time while allowing other provisions of the law to be delayed for at least a year.
And in fact I do not believe the Republican establishment wanted to repeal this law in the first place, otherwise they would have backed Ted Cruz and Mike Lee when they attempted to delay the individual mandate in that now infamous filibuster. But instead they turned on these two individuals because they believed it was more beneficial to the party to leave the law in place so they could run against it in 2014 and 2016 and now we are stuck with it.
Now the best that we can hope for is to fix the most egregious parts of the law but the fact is, in my opinion, that neither side will want the other side to get credit for any fixes therefor the law will remain in effect as written. We have seen this with the medical device tax–both sides claim to now oppose this tax and both sides have either introduced legislation of offered amendments to other legislation to repeal the tax, however both sides have rejected these attempts for fear the other side would get credit.
The ruling class elites are using this issue for their own personal political gain and have no interest in doing what is best for the American people. We are merely poor players in a game in which we have no control.
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Thanks again!
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You’re welcome.
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The hell it can’t be repealed. If any law is unjust and unconstitutional it can be repealed or removed.
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I agree with you in theory, but how many times have we seen a law of this magnitude get repealed once it was implemented?
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They need to be repealed! (both Dems & Reps parties)
Like you stated Steve the majority of them are in there for their own gain. We need to hit the ‘Reset’ button – get it back from Russia! 🙂
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Sounds like a great idea to me and it sounds like Russia isn’t using that reset button so perhaps they will loan it to us. 🙂
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I really have no idea what the chances of repealing the law are, but if on balance it helps more people than it hurts, then it’s here to stay. I understand it has hurt some, who have lost insurance or had to incur greater cost, and helped others. Rep. Rodgers is right. Just like with Social Security and Medicare, you start with it as a template, and amend it to fix the functioning of the system. The intent of the PPACA is still to address a problem that people deserve help with, and no matter who voted for it, it contains ideas and aspects that were contributed by both major parties.
My clinic (an Urgent Care) has seen about a 30% increase in patients, and on the info form for new patients they check the box that says “recently obtained insurance”. Before you assume it’s all Medicaid, I’ll clarify that we do not accept Medicaid patients. These are people who formerly had to pay cash or go to Emergency Rooms, or just not go to the doctor, who now have private insurance policies. Maybe they had pre-existing conditions or some other thing that gave insurers leeway to cut them out before.
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I heard today that she was backing off her statement because of the uproar it caused from her constituents. In my opinion and what I know of healthcare, he won’t matter if it is repealed. Hospitals are almost finished financially. Physicians were forced to join health systems because of onerous paperwork, and the requirement for the electronic medical record. The minimum coast for the software was about $50,000. Single practice is a thing of the past, older Docs didnt want to type all day. So, now the Docs are employees of Hospitals that are going under. One can figure out the conclusion. Yet no single person in the media is talking about it.
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I heard the same thing as well, but in my opinion she is right now that the law is in place. The damage has been done but the end result hasn’t been achieved……yet.
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The problem is how much economic damage will leaving Obamacare in place create vs. how much economic damage would there be in repealing it.
For me personally, I’m saving (depending on how you add the figures) between $200 and $500 per month because I switched to O’care when my private insurance premium more than doubled and the benefits were cut.
Nice for me, but one of the fundamental problems with O’care is that the Feds are already spending money at an unsustainable rate. If my country suffers an economic collapse triggered by O’care, cheap medical insurance isn’t going to do me much good.
Is that simple enough?
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I think you summed it up well. Sure there have been some people who have been helped but there are others who were hurt. And the goal in my opinion was always to drive up the costs so single-payer could be implemented. And besides, what good will this insurance do if the economy eventually collapses?
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That’s just it. You can’t keep spending money you haven’t got. Sooner or later the collection agency shows up to collect.
I’d rather pay a couple of hundred dollars more per month than know my comfort was helping to break down my country. The only reason I switched was because my insurance company raised my premium to well over $500.00 per month and reduced the benefits to virtually nothing. I really didn’t have much of a choice.
Incidentally, the way it was done, I don’t show up in the statistics of those who lost their private insurance because of O’care, but functionally, that’s exactly what happened.
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I don’t blame you for signing up at all, you had to do what was right by your family and that is exactly what Obama is counting on. I am not surprised that you do not show up as having lost your insurance due to Obamacare and I would bet that many are in the same situation as you and also do not show up. This is being done so that Obama can tout the number of people who have signed up without ever having to admit how many of the signups are people who previously had healthcare insurance so he can portray them as new signups to healthcare.
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I think that we all knew once this monster was put in place, the far reaches of the program would never be able to be removed. I still think they never expected this to work and they knew it was going to be a BIG mess. I think their goal is the Single payer system in the end. If you listen once in awhile you will hear ones like Chuck Schumer bring that up, so I know that will be the end for all of us. I wish I was younger, but at 60, I think my generation will not have the pleasure of living as long as our parents have/did. We most surely have a built in expiration date on us now.
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Exactly Lou, they knew this would not work but in reality it is working as intended because the end game was always single-payer.
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Thank you.
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