POLITICS - The Party-of-NO, Same Old Tricks

"Short of Repeal, G.O.P. Will Chip at Health Law" by ROBERT PEAR, New York Times 9/20/2010

Excerpt

Republicans are serious. Hopeful of picking up substantial numbers of seats in the Congressional elections, they are developing plans to try to repeal or roll back President Obama’s new health care law.

This goal, though not fleshed out in a detailed legislative proposal, is much more than a campaign slogan. That conclusion emerged from interviews with a wide range of Republican lawmakers, who said they were determined to chip away at the law if they could not dismantle it.

House Republicans are expected to include some specifics in an election agenda they intend to issue Thursday. Although they face tremendous political and practical hurdles to undoing a law whose provisions are rapidly going into effect, they are already laying the groundwork for trying.

For starters, Republicans say they will try to withhold money that federal officials need to administer and enforce the law. They know that even if they managed to pass a wholesale repeal, Mr. Obama would veto it.

“They’ll get not one dime from us,” the House Republican leader, John A. Boehner of Ohio, told The Cincinnati Enquirer recently. “Not a dime. There is no fixing this.”

Republicans also intend to go after specific provisions. Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, a senior Republican on the Finance Committee, has introduced a bill that would eliminate a linchpin of the new law: a requirement for many employers to offer insurance to employees or pay a tax penalty. Many Republicans also want to repeal the law’s requirement for most Americans to obtain health insurance.

Typical from the Party of NO.

No requirement for most (NOT all) Americans to have healthcare, which would make healthcare insurance cheaper for everyone. Bulk buying like Wal-Mart or COSTCO, that allows them to offer products cheaper. That is, this forces health insurance providers to have cheaper offerings to consumers.

Companies not offering healthcare insurance (note applies ONLY to companies with 50+ employees), a profits ABOVE your health attitude.

The Republican Party does NOT care about YOUR health. They only care about company profits (aka money).