GOP lacks clear health-care plan

The GOP's lack of a healthcare plan
According to the Washington Post, the GOP lacks a plan for The House's GOP leaders have made clear that they regard the Repeal vote, scheduled to begin Tuesday, as the prelude to a two-prong strategy that is likely to last throughout the year, or longer. They intend to take apart some of the sprawling law, which Democrats pushed through Congress last year, piece by piece before major aspects of it go into effect. At the same time, Republicans say, they will come up with their own plan to revise...

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...

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...

Health care opponents' passion cools, poll finds
(01-17) 04:00 PST Washington - -- As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the Health Care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Obama's overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on Repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the Lowest Level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to September 2009. The nation is divided over the law, but the strength and intensity of the opposition appear d...

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...

Public support for health care repeal plummets: AP poll
A survey by Gallup found that on Jan. 7, one day before the shootings, Americans supported Repeal by a margin of 46 to 40 percent. But the nation remains deeply divided over the law. Overall, 40 percent in the AP-GfK poll said they support it, while 41 percent were less than pleased, some of whom thought it doesn't go far enough. The shift in Public Opinion doesn't appear likely to sway the outcome of a Repeal vote slated for this week. The GOP bill, titled "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care...

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...

Obama health care reform: Is it really 'job killing'?
More than a year’s worth of GOP scare tactics about Health Care reform now appear to be unfounded, partisan politics. There were no Death Panels, as Sarah Palin claimed. It is not a ‘job killing’ bill, as House Speaker, John Boehner claims. In reality, Health Care reform will actually create jobs in the Health Care industry. Furthermore, Congressional Budget Office data finds that Obama care will reduce the federal Deficit. Politico reports health Insurance Industry insiders ar...

Does new debate give Dems a second chance to sell health care reform?
WASHINGTON--Rep. Joe Courtney recently found himself testifying before a House committee about a family physician from Hebron who, thanks to small-business Tax Credits included in the Health Care reform law, will be getting a $4,000 break this year. Rep. Rosa DeLauro was at the Milford Senior Center last week highlighting the health overhaul's benefits for seniors, including free access to preventive care and a $250 rebate for prescription drug coverage. It is the Republicans who have pushed h...

Dismembering what is left of health care monstrosity
Image via Wikipedia Washington Post: With the House preparing to vote this week on whether to Repeal the Health Care law, the chamber's new Republican majority already confronts a far more delicate task: forging its own path to expand health coverage and curb medical costs. The House's GOP leaders have made clear that they regard the Repeal vote, scheduled to begin Tuesday, as the prelude to a two-prong strategy that is likely to last throughout the year, or longer. They intend to dismember th...

Appeal Blasts Unprecedented Expansion of Health Care Law
The latest legal salvo in the judicial fight over the Health Care reform law was fired Monday when lawyers from Liberty University filed their appeal blasting a Virginia judge's ruling upholding the law and filed just a couple of weeks before another Federal Judge from Virginia said President Obama's hallmark Legislation is Unconstitutional. Echoing the concerns expressed in a couple of dozen Lawsuits across the country, Liberty's challenge argues the Individual Mandate of the Patient Protection...

Is health care law really a 'job killer'? Experts doubt it
WASHINGTON — Despite what Republicans say, the 2010 Health Care law isn't necessarily a job killer. Republicans have titled their effort to overturn the law the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," and that's their favorite talking point against it. The House of Representatives will start debate on Repeal Tuesday and probably vote Wednesday. Saying that the law is a job killer doesn't necessarily make it one, however, and independent experts say that suc...

Boehner, Cantor Waste Money, Time on Bill Going Nowhere
Now that members of the 112th Congress have been sworn in, Congressional business begins anew this coming week with House Republicans wasting the nation's money and time with a bill to Repeal the first national Health Care Legislation for all Americans in nearly 50 years. That the Republican Party of No would choose to begin the new two-year session on a futile, negative note is an oddly self-destructive way to mark return to House majority rule... but there it is: Republican House leaders John...

Healthcare Law a Jobs Killer?
TM NOTE: Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive Activist, weeknights 6 pm EST. Sorry Mr. Speaker, no. The healthcare law is very flawed. The mandate making Americans buy from a cartel is abhorrent. But it does have some redeeming qualities bundled in it and the Right Wing lies on the law must be debunked. The Right’s effort to Repeal the entire thing is outlandish, especially since the mandate is based on the GOP’s own plan for healthcare coverage back in the...

GOP Rep. Steve King Says ObamaCare Will be Repealed in the House; Real Chance of Passage in the Senate Video 1/17/11
Here is video of Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King telling Neil Cavuto that a bill to Repeal ObamaCare will pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, and has a real chance of passage in the U.S. Senate if it comes up for a vote. He believes public pressure could force Harry Reid to allow a vote on it in the Senate, and with just four Democrats voting with the GOP, it could pass in the Senate. Of course, it would be vetoed by President Obama, but it would sure set up the Repeal of ObamaCar...

Preview of the New Civility
Out of respect for Tuscon Victims, House Republicans have downgraded their designation of Health Care reform from "job-killing" to "job-crushing" and "job-destroying." But with this new verbal sensitivity, John Boehner is insisting, "No act of violence is going to keep us from doing our jobs and representing the will of our constituents. The American People have made it clear they want us to focus on cutting spending and removing barriers to job creation." This would be impressive if it were no...

Law professors to defend individual mandate
With a federal District Judge in Florida expected to rule this month on a challenge to a key provision in the Healthcare Reform law, more than 100 legal scholars are defending its constitutionality. The legal scholars are joining with the left-leaning Center for American Progress and American Constitution Society on Tuesday to voice their belief that the reform law's requirement for individuals to purchase Health Insurance is constitutional. Opponents of the reform law argue that Congress does...

Health law: Experts cast doubt on 'job-killing' label
WASHINGTON — Despite what Republicans say, the health-care law isn't necessarily a job killer, experts say. Republicans have titled their effort to overturn the law the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," and that's their favorite talking point against it. The House will start debate on Repeal Tuesday and probably vote Wednesday. Saying the law is a job killer doesn't necessarily make it one, however, and independent experts say such a conclusion is at least premature, if no...

Dear Democrats: Pray The Tuesday Group Is Heard
There is exactly one hope that Democrats have to not get bogged down in partisan morass for the next two years, and it has nothing to do with their own Party. In fact, it's a day of the week, the Tuesday Group. Made up of moderate Republicans, they actually got voted into office along with all the Tea Party candidates, according to the Washington Post. While the profile of Charles Bass of New Hampshire and Charlie Dent is for the Post to get some needed sources, it does represent a significant portion o

Legislators wary on debt in McDonnell's roads plan
Legislators, including members of his own party, expressed skepticism — even fear — Monday about Gov. Bob McDonnell's proposal to use borrowed money to fund new transportation projects. At a three-hour meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, Del. Johnny S. Joannou, D-Portsmouth, raised the possibility of a national Bankruptcy that would leave the state obligated to pay for federally funded highways. Others rejected that doomsday scenario, but even some Republicans who normally...

Poll finds most desire Hill compromise, not confrontation
WASHINGTON — Americans in a new USA Today/Gallup Poll say by overwhelming numbers that they want to see Compromise, not confrontation, from President Obama and House Republican leaders as a new legislative year begins. One week before the president delivers his State of the Union address next Tuesday night, most people, though, don't expect things to work better now that Republicans have taken over the House and Obama has had two years of experience in the White House under his belt. Half p...

The Government's Abeyance Motion in the DADT Litigation
Last week the Justice Dep't asked the 9th Circuit to hold in abeyance the appeal of an earlier District Court ruling invalidating Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell (DADT) while the steps to implement the policy's Repeal are taken. The plaintiffs Log Cabin Republicans oppose the motion on the ground that so long as DADT remains in effect--which it does given the statutorily prescribed delay in implementation along with an existing stay of the District Court order--service members suffer Unconstitutional harm ...

Public opinion on health care law rises
Ahead of a vote on Repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the Lowest Level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to September 2009. The nation is divided over the law, but the strength and intensity of the opposition appear diminished. The law expands coverage to more than 30 million Uninsured, and would require, for the first time, that most people in the United States carry Health Insurance. The poll finds that 40 percent of those surve...

AP-GfK Poll: Opposition to health care law eases (AP)
WASHINGTON – As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the Health Care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on Repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the Lowest Level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to September 2009. The nation is divided over the law, but the strength and intensity of the opposition appear diminished...

The Health Care that Billionaires (and Non-Billionaires) Need
So Steve Jobs is taking medical leave from Apple. The man who built his company into a $320 billion colossus has suffered from Pancreatic Cancer, which spread to his liver — he received a liver transplant in 2009. Now, sadly, he is sick again. What do you think he’s thinking now? He’s probably not thinking to himself, “Thank God for Obamacare,” because Health Insurance is irrelevant to him, and to other Billionaires. Perhaps instead Jobs is thinking, “How come...