Repeal And Replace Without The Replace

HCR Repeal?
While the Right is in an uproar, screaming for News Media to correct the “error” that the Right’s paranoid, eliminationist Rhetoric might have been an influence in the Tucson shooting, as well as several others — this is what Orwell would call a “thought crime,” I believe — they are silent about some of the actual and verifiable lies reported IN Media everywhere. For example, regarding the recent CBO report that said repealing Health Care reform would...

Polls Show Conflicting Results on Health Care Law as House Readies Repeal Vote
As Congress resumes regular business this week and prepares for a vote in the House on repealing the Health Care reform law, a number of new polls provide conflicting results on how the public feels about the law and efforts to scrap it or scale it back. A Quinnipiac University poll of Registered Voters, conducted Jan. 4-11, says the public supports Repeal by 48 percent to 43 percent with 8 percent Undecided. (The Margin of Error is 2.4 points). Support for repeal, according to this poll, is bol...

A difficult health care report for Republicans to deal with
A startling report about the health of Americans has been released today, on the cusp of the wrangle in the House about killing health Legislation. As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red flags for Health Insurers, according to an analysis that marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejected by Insurance Companies or paying more for coverage. The secretary of health and human services is scheduled to ...

FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate
Republicans pushing to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the Health Care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides. Republicans are calling their thumbs-down Legislation the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." Postponed after the Mass Shootings in Tucson, a House vote on the d...

FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate (AP)
WASHINGTON – Republicans pushing to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the Health Care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides. Republicans are calling their thumbs-down Legislation the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." Postponed after the Mass Shootings in Tucson, ...

FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate
WASHINGTON—Republicans pushing to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the Health Care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides. Republicans are calling their thumbs-down Legislation the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." Postponed after the Mass Shootings in Tucson, a H...

FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushing to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the Health Care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides. Republicans are calling their thumbs-down Legislation the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." Postponed after the Mass Shootings in Tucson, ...

129M Americans May have Health Care Red Flags
House Republicans plan a largely symbolic vote on repealing the Health Care Reform Bill. American Spectator contributor Russ Ferguson thinks they should be careful what they wish for. Bob Schieffer spoke with Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on if members of Congress will work together to practice Civil Discourse in the debate over Health Care reform. As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red f...

National health care law will help many Texas families get insurance, report says
National Health Care law will help many Texas families get Insurance, report says 12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] Austin - Even as Texas leaders rail against the national Health Care law and call for its Repeal, the State Department of Insurance has issued a report that says the law will make it easier for many Texas families to get health coverage. The report also helps make the case that the current system i...

Kristol Gets the Gold Bug?!
Today, Bill Kristol blogged that it might be a good idea for the whole world to go back on the gold standard, or at least have a discussion about the idea. Specifically: And it’s worth further asking-as more and more people are beginning to ask-whether a modernized international gold standard, which anchors currencies to a standard outside government manipulation, wouldn’t better serve the interests of free and Limited Government both at home and abroad. After all, it&#...

Kristol Gets Gold Fever
Today, Bill Kristol blogged that it might be a good idea for the whole world to go back on the gold standard, or at least have a discussion about the idea. Specifically: And it’s worth further asking-as more and more people are beginning to ask-whether a modernized international gold standard, which anchors currencies to a standard outside government manipulation, wouldn’t better serve the interests of free and limited government both at home and abroad. After all, it&#...

Health care lobby mum on repeal
The Health Care industry’s biggest trade groups have remained uncharacteristically neutral on the Republican effort to Repeal the Health Care reform law, choosing instead to save their political capital for smaller, more targeted changes that have a chance at becoming law. America’s Health Insurance Plans lobbied against much of the Health Care overhaul when it was passed in Congress, but it is not supporting the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. The heads of Aetna and...

Capitol Hill Happenings: Today in Congress
The House begins debate in the afternoon on the bill to Repeal the Health Care law. There are seven hours of debate scheduled for the measure, and since seven hours in Congress time takes much longer than seven hours on a watch, the final vote will take place Wednesday. House Democrats hold a hearing at 1:00 p.m. ET on the impact of repealing the Health Care law they pushed through Congress. They are billing it as the only hearing where supporters can "testify about the real-life effects of undo...

GOP set to try for healthcare law repeal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Republican leaders in the U.S. House are set to open debate on whether to Repeal Healthcare Reform Legislation enacted by Democrats in the previous session. The debate, set to begin Tuesday, comes as public-opinion polls indicate less than a third of Americans support repealing the law. A Repeal vote is expected Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told The Christian Science Monitor. The debate was originally scheduled for last week and was anticipate...

Democrats seek redo of health pitch
Supporters of Health Care reform are hoping to use the GOP Repeal effort this week to defend and explain the law, using a unified voice and a personal touch. House Republicans are set to begin debate Tuesday on repeal. A vote is scheduled for Wednesday after a week of delay to honor Victims of the shootings in Tucson. Wednesday’s vote, which is mainly symbolic for Republicans because it faces promised opposition in the Senate, still gives Democrats a second chance to defend their landmar...

What to expect from this weeks vote to repeal the health care law
Chris Moody is a political reporter for the Daily Caller from San Diego, California. Before joining the Daily Caller, Moody was the Manager of New Media at a Think Tank in Washington DC, a freelance writer and a commercial Fisherman in Alaska. He is currently a graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University and lives in downtown Washington DC. A warning to C-SPAN junkies: With a House vote coming this week on Health Care reform Repeal, prepare to relive a year’s worth of Health Care speeches...

House Republicans Have No Plan To Deal With Health Care After Repeal
As the first major legislative act with their new majority, Republicans are planning to hold a futile vote next week to Repeal President Obama’s Health Care law. The laughably named “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” has an equally laughable chance of becoming law, as the Democratic majority in the Senate will inevitably block it. President Obama has also confirmed that he’ll Veto it. Nonetheless, House Republicans are rushing headlong into inevitable defea...

In South Texas a long life without health care insurance
The NY Times searches for an answer to how so many Texas border resident's live to a 100 or more without Health Insurance. They claim it is an healthy diet, but I grew up down there and they seemed to eat the same tacos everyone else ate including me. The story indicates that many of them buy their Health Care on the Mexican side of the border, but it does not indicate that Mexicans on the other side of the border have similar long lives. It does show that many without Health Care Insurance wil...

Public opposition to health overhaul seen as easing
WASHINGTON — House Republicans plan this week to fulfill a Tea Party movement priority: trying to Repeal the Health Care law passed by Democrats last year. But the pace and Rhetoric of the drive have cooled in recent days, with lawmakers shaken by the attack on a colleague who backed the new law. GOP leaders acknowledge that the Senate is certain to block a Repeal of the health overhaul championed by President Obama, but they vowed to make good on their resolution to challenge it in the R...

Cost time bomb enbedded in Obamacare
Image via Wikipedia Tim Carney: In fighting against ObamaCare Repeal this week, Democrats portray their Health Care law as a money saver, claiming Republicans would add to the Deficit by abolishing the Legislation. But in their franker moments, the bill's authors admit that "reform" could be something of a Time Bomb that will cause exploding Health Care costs down the line. One top Senate aide plainly stated last summer, "This is a coverage bill, not a cost reduction bill." The time-bomb natur...

Repeal No Replace
Come on, Repubs, give Bill Kristol something to work with, won’t you? I mean, don’t leave him flapping on the line like a fish gasping for life, guys! That’s not nice! 1 response(s) to this topic so far. Have an opinion? Join the District TMV discussion on this topic now. ...

Daschle, Frist join forces on reform
Former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist are hoping to achieve at the state level what federal lawmakers weren’t able to do: Bipartisan health reform. “We realize that the bulk of the work has to be done at the state level,” Daschle told Politico. “We want to work in a constructive way to ensure all the tremendous challenges, including the creation of the exchanges and the availability of the new Insurance possibilities for millions of Americans, can be...

GOP seeks alternatives to Obama health care law
WASHINGTON -- Preparing to re-engage with President Barack Obama, House Republicans have set themselves a more ambitious goal than simply wiping out the sweeping Health Care overhaul signed into law last March. When they take up the much-anticipated Repeal resolution Tuesday and Wednesday, GOP lawmakers also will begin crafting an alternative with the goal of reducing Insurance Premiums, expanding coverage, preserving Medicare and holding down taxes. Although they will be mindful of the call f...

FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2011, file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio,... WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans pushing to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to stand. But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the Health Care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides. Republicans are calling their thumbs-down Legislation the "Repealing the Jo...

Good morning Panama City, its all about priorities
Our nation is in a mess.  The federal Debt is shooting upward like the Space Shuttle, our economy is in a slump, Inflation is starting to flicker a bit, and almost 15 million of our fellow citizens are out of work.  On top of that we are importing almost seventy percent of our Oil, and borrowing money from China to pay for it. Congress is working to Repeal the Health Care bill Obama and the Democrats spent two years passing.   I think repealing this bill would be one of the b...