Dem: Health care repeal will lead to 'more dying'

Americans split on health care repeal
In a survey with a Margin of Error of four percentage points, that's hardly a significant difference. Yet, among partisans the affiliation is clear. Nearly 80 percent of Republicans favor repealing the law, while about two-thirds of Democrats oppose the move . Among Independents Repeal wins out "but by a margin too small to be statistically significant," explains USA Today . One of the most dramatic divides, notes the paper, is by age. By a 50-30 percent margin, young adults under 30 suppor...

House takes first step toward health care repeal
WASHINGTON — Confronting President Barack Obama, the new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to Repeal his landmark Health Care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million now Uninsured. The 236-181 largely party-line vote set the stage for what is likely to amount to no more than a political message, since Democrats who still run the Senate have promised to block efforts to scrap the law and Obama has Veto power.. The House action s...

White House gives data why repealing Affordable Care Act will hurt economy
Even as the Republican House Majority has introduced a "Repeal of the Job-Killing Health Care Bill" Bill, Stephanie Cutter, Assistant to the President for Special Projects, has published a White House blog outlining why repealing the Affordable Care Act will hurt The Economy. Whereas Republicans have offered no actual data to support their contention that access to Health Insurance has actually hurt jobs-creation, and actually have declared they will ignore the reality that repeal will add $148 ...

Boehner Vows Healthcare Repeal
New Speaker of the House John Boehner says his first priority is to Repeal the "job-killing healthcare law" and replace it with "commonsense reforms that will reduce the cost of Health Insurance in America." See a gallery of editorial cartoons on healthcare. See which industries give the most to Congress. ...

House GOP Advances Health Care Reform Repeal
House Republicans, in power for less than one week, appear poised to make good on their high-profile promise to vote to Repeal the new Health Care reform law. More Video ...

For Democrats, a More United Front on Health Care
As House Republicans push a bill to Repeal the new Health Care law, Democrats find themselves far more united in support of President Obama's reforms, and for one simple reason: The dissenters are gone. It's a bittersweet situation for House Democrats, able to exercise greater discipline among the Caucus, but having lost the majority and missing dozens of the conservative Democrats with whom most of the caucus didn't see eye to eye--some of them Veterans of Congress whose midterm losses surpris...

The Unbearable Hypocrisy of Health Care Reform Repealers
In what can only be described as a fairly stunning display of hypocrisy, Freshman Rep. Richard Nugent (R-FL) says he will pay $9,000 to keep his Health Insurance through his "employer", not through the FEHBP plan for members of Congress because he might have an accident and need treatment he couldn't otherwise afford. NUGENT: I will tell you this, what I will pay for Insurance to get through my employer, not through the House, will be almost — will costs me $9,000 more a year. But I wan to...

House takes first step toward health care repeal
(01-07) 09:27 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Confronting President Barack Obama, the new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to Repeal his landmark Health Care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million now Uninsured. The 236-181 largely party-line vote set the stage for what is likely to amount to no more than a political message, since Democrats who still run the Senate have promised to block efforts to scrap the law and Obama has Veto power.....

Four House Democrats Join With Republicans In Rules Vote To Repeal Obamacare
With a 236 to 181 vote, with four Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans in the House of Representatives, a procedural vote passed the House on the rules of length and terms of the ObamaCare Repeal debate b before an expected Weds vote on the full Repeal of Obama and Democrats Health Care law from March 2010. Roll call found here on the House vote on the rules. The four Democrats that crossed the aisle are: Representative Dan Boren (OK), who is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition...

Californians face 59% Rate Hike thanks to Obamacare
On any side of a debate there is roughly 33% of the population in which no amount of facts will change their mind and the recent battle to Repeal ObamaCare is no different.  The most recent Gallup Poll shows 46% of Americans favor Repeal of ObamaCare while 40% support it (14% no opinion).  Accepting there is no way to salvage the 1/3 of those who would blindly follow President Obama over a cliff, Thursday’s announcement from Blue Shield of California should be a wakeup call for t...

CHANGE: House Votes to Repeal Job-Killing Health Care Law 236-181.
CHANGE: House Votes to Repeal “Job-Killing” Health Care Law 236-181. ...

Gallup: Support for Obamacare Repeal at 46-40
 A new Gallup Poll finds that 46 percent of Americans want their representative in Congress to vote to Repeal the Affordable Care Act, 40 percent want their representative to vote against repeal, and 14 percent have no opinion. 78 percent of Republicans, 43 percent of Independents, and — interestingly — 24 percent of Democrats favor repeal. More here....

White House: Healthcare reform repeal would hurt economy
The White House warned Friday that Republicans' effort to Repeal Healthcare Reform would harm The Economy. Stephanie Cutter, an assistant to the president for special projects, wrote that "repealing the law would likely slow down the growth of our economy," on a day when the government posted a tick-down in the Unemployment Rate, to 9.4 percent. "The House Republican Health Care Plan to Repeal the Affordable Care Act and take away all the new freedom and control it gives the American People o...

Miles Mogulescu: Health Care: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
Next week's vote in the Republican controlled House to Repeal Health Care Reform is, in the short-term, nothing more than symbolic--It won't pass the Senate and in the unlikely event it did, would be vetoed by President Obama. But just because it's symbolic doesn't mean that Democrats and liberals shouldn't take it seriously. ObamaCare is a decidedly mixed bag of good and not so good reforms and the voting public is decidedly ambivalent about many of its provisions. In particular, the individu...

On Filibuster Reform
During the Health Care debate, I wrote a series of posts defending the Filibuster — you can find them here, here, and here, with a much later follow-up here — and arguing for the virtues of a Supermajority hurdle for Controversial, big-ticket Legislation. I stand by all of those arguments, but I also agree with Daniel Foster that the Filibuster reform proposal the Senate Democrats are putting forward looks pretty reasonable.  Essentially, for the Filibuster to work as I’d ...

Rep. Steve King's Ingenious Health Care Reform Proposal: "Move"
Speaking on the House floor yesterday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) proposed that people upset with the rising cost of Health Insurance in their states could simply "vote with their feet" and move to states where better-priced Health Insurance plans were available. King's ingenious plan on how best to deal with the Health Insurance crisis came hours after King argued that the Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutional because dead babies never participated in interstate commerce. KING: If states want to ...

Preview: Investors to weigh healthcare picks at annual confab
Los Angeles (Reuters) - When healthcare investors convene next week at the industry's leading annual conference, they will be weighing their best bets for 2011 at a time of rising interest in the sector, from drugmakers to Hospital operators and medical record technology companies. The top executives from France's Sanofi-Aventis and its $18.5 billion hostile takeover target, Genzyme Corp are among the company presenters likely to draw big crowds at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Fra...

Forbes: Obamacare is working
Forbes magazine has a new article that points out that — despite what Republicans are saying about the Health Care Reform Bill killing jobs — that ObamaCare is helping small businesses offer Health Care to their employees. This is great news. I have started a number of small businesses, and I have long said that the problems that small businesses had in the past offering Health Insurance to their employees is huge problem to startups, and consequently an enormous drag on our economy,...

California braces for 59% health premium hike
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One of California's largest Health Insurers - Blue Shield - announced plans to hike its premiums by as much as 59%. The jacked up premium rates are set to take effect on March 1, pending review from state Insurance Regulators. The move impacts 193,000 Blue Shield policy holders. Email Print Comment The company, a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association with 3.3 million members, which announced the move late Thursday, stressed that its decision has "almost n...

Steve King: If You Don't Like Your Health Care Options, Move To Another State
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Four Dems Vote with GOP on Obamacare Procedural Vote
In a procedural vote on the health-care Repeal today, which sets up the Repeal for a final vote Wednesday, four Democrats crossed over to join the Republicans in voting yes. Reps. Dan Boren (Okla.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Mike Mcintyre (N.C.), and Mike Ross (Ark.) all voted against ObamaCare last year as well, although Kissell told The Hill earlier this week he would not vote for full repeal. Of the 34 House Democrats who voted against Obamacare, only 13 were reelected. Rudy Redux? I assume the c...

Health care reform: House marches toward repeal vote
Health care reform law is top target of the new GOP House majority. But critics say GOP leaders set aside their pledges of fiscal restraint and openness in pushing forward on vote to Repeal it. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (r.) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia held a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as they pushed forward toward an up or down House vote on repealing the new Health Care reform law. After promising a new era of openness and fiscal restraint, Hous...

The GOP's message discipline
Everyone is linking to this Steven Pearlstein column skewering the GOP's ubiquitous talking point that everything Obama and Democrats have done is a "job killer." Folks are pushing back on the "job killer" talking point by pointing to a new Harvard study that shows that the GOP's chief initiative right now, repealing health reform, could cost up to 400,000 jobs. Type "job killing" into Google and you'll get more than 1.2 million hits. On the Factiva news database, it comes up 11,115 times during...

Poll finds Americans undecided on healthcare repeal
In the shadow of an upcoming vote to Repeal Healthcare Reform next week, Americans are split on whether Congress should Repeal the Legislation — 46 percent in favor to 40 percent against, with 14 percent Undecided, a Gallup Poll released today found. According to Gallup, the poll, conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, is consistent with past polls that found the Healthcare Reform law passed last year is still failing to gain traction among Americans. "Americans' broadly divided opinions on r...

Few Anti-Reform Dems Riding the Repeal Wave
Fri Jan. 7, 2011 9:33 AM PST Conservative Democrats who voted down health reform aren’t jumping aboard the GOP’s push to Repeal the law. On Friday morning, the House voted 236 to 181 to move forward with its Health Care Repeal bill, clearing the path for a Wednesday vote on the measure. Only four Democrats voted with Republicans on the procedural vote: Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.), Larry Kissell (D-NC), Mike Mcintyre (D-NC), and Mike Ross (D-Ark.). Boren and Ross had already vowed to vo...