McConnell cautions replacement to health law to take time

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Associated Press - LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Congress will act early next year to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative.

The Kentucky Republican insisted Saturday that some 20 million Americans who have health care through the six-year-old law will not lose coverage, though the likely upheaval in the insurance industry suggests otherwise.

Speaking in Louisville, McConnell cautioned that the law's critics "can't just snap your fingers and go from where we are today to where we're headed." He said a replacement to the health care law will be done in a "phased-in way."

Republicans have been unable to agree on an alternative since the law's enactment, but now must produce one if they scrap the law.

So let me get this straight, The republicans in congress have voted to repeal the Affotdable Care Act since 2010, like 60 plus times. They have been blocked either by the then democratic senate and then Obama when the democrats lost the senate.

So the past 6 to 7 years, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and the congressional republicans have proposed and voted to repeal an important law that affects milions of Americans.

During their thought process and symbolic proposals to repeal the law 60 plus times. Not one of them have come up with a consensus alternative till this date

Romney ran on repealing "Obamacare" Day 1, Trump ran on repealing "Obamacare" Day 1 and replacing it with something "great". The other republican candidates for President have campaigned on repealing it.

So the republican brain trust have had six long years (including the pressure of two presidential campaign seasons) to come up with a replacement and have nothing.

I understand a slow roll back if you have a plan already in mind, but they have nothing.

what have they been doing these past 6 years.

They have their presidential nominee saying on the record that he is gonna keep popular portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to try to improve the already existing law these past 6 years, get blocked by the democrats and now u can propose those amendments now to the law and take credit for fixing it.

But they have campaigned on demonizing this law for the past 6 years, there is no way you can keep "Obamacare" both practically with politically now.

AND WHAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE PERSONAL HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS THAT THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES HAVE PROPOSED IN BOTH THE 2012 AND THE 2016 CAMPAIGN SEASONS .

 

[BaggerofTea]

So they are going to repeal it without having a suitable black up plan............

 

[Regular_P]

I really wish we could split the country in two again. Let these idiots have their own fantasy land and the rest of us can live in a modern country with actual progress.

 

[hashmander]

 

[levitate]

Spent eight years demonizing the shyt and don't even have a fukking plan ready to go in its place...

How is this fukking career politician still in office?

 

[Robbie3000]

:mjol:

They can't repeal a law that 20 million people are already using without severe consequences.

Their problem is that in order to keep popular provisions in Obamacare, a mandate is necessary and they have to provide subsidies to people who can't afford the premiums.

It's going to be an interesting four years when these obstructionists are forced to actually govern.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Just fix Medicare and expand Medicaid nationally with higher income brackets.
A hugh percent of the population make less than 55k a year set the cap at that for Medicaid.

fukk the insurance companies and big pharma.

 

[Scholar]

Everyone already knew they were trying to repeal to give Obama the middle finger. They never had a replacement. Just like they never had any compromises because the plan was to obstruct at all cost.

Also, those proposed personal health savings accounts were horrid and they can't be that dumb.

I'm pretty sure they are struggling with creating a plan that doesn't look like it will fxck people over. Obviously they are looking out for big business as they replace the ACA ( not like this didn't help companies enough but big pharm is greedy) but they have to be able to sell there shyt ideas as gold to their base/public.

 

[Scholar]

Just fix Medicare and expand Medicaid nationally with higher income brackets.
A hugh percent of the population make less than 55k a year set the cap at that for Medicaid.

fukk the insurance companies and big pharma.

They are too busy trying to privatize Medicare

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

They are too busy trying to privatize Medicare

I'm aware.