I have to think this argument is missing something. If that is truly the case, then how did this case not get thrown out before the Supreme Court?
via thinkprogress this morning-- The agency that oversees Medicare reports that reforms in the Affordable Care Act saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion in prescription drug costs in the two years since the law’s passage, with savings resulting from a combination of discounts on Medicare prescription drugs and rebates for seniors who fell under a coverage gap.
GOP preps plan for ruling on law House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama’s health care law. If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most controversial pieces, such as the individual mandate and requirements that employers provide insurance or face fines. If the law is partially or fully overturned they’ll draw up bills to keep the popular, consumer-friendly portions in place — like allowing adult children to remain on parents’ health care plans until age 26, and forcing insurance companies to provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Ripping these provisions from law is too politically risky, Republicans say.
They won't be able to keep those provisions. The Insurance industry will never agree to it. They only reason they agreed to it was because of the mandate and the trillion dollars it would bring in to offset the loses from the more popular pieces. The whole bill is done. The court will through the whole thing out. Republicans won't pass anything once the Insurance companies tell them not too.
Breaking: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will become the latest GOP governor to accept Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, reversing his earlier opposition to a key element of the health care law, according to POLITICO sources. Christie, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, is the eighth GOP governor to embrace the federally financed expansion that begins in 2014, and his expected announcement in his annual budget address Tuesday follows high-profile reversals of conservative Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Scott of Florida, both of whom agreed to expansion recently. The news was first reported by The Newark Star-Ledger. For more information... http://www.politico.com
He was already done, as evidenced by him being excluded from CPAC last week. I suspect he realizes this and is now free to actually do the right thing.
Ii Lol. Good. Please continue to let nasalectomy/facial spite ideological purity tests (which actually are contradictory on that level...but whatever) continue to drive the. Grand Old White South Party into oblivion
These are all big-city states (NJ has the highest population density) with large urban minority or immigrant populations; party or ideology aside turning down extra social services would have been administratively irrational.
I'm not convinced that putting his state on the hook for even more Medicaid spending (after the Feds stop covering the expansion) is the right thing to do.
Yes because if GOP-position to HCR is about anything- it's about policy (except for that it's their own policy and their solution is the same policy just minus the means to pay for it...)
The initial 100% subsidy drops to 90% in perpetuity. You don't think insuring a bunch of poor people in your state at 1/10th of its actual cost is a good thing? It's free money coming into the state.
