Republicans to attack healthcare law funding

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

U.S. congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader in the Senate acknowledged on Thursday they will likely have to settle for far more modest changes.

Two days after Republicans scored big victories in congressional elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against Obama's landmark law and showed no sign of compromise when the new Congress opens for business in January. "We can and should propose and vote on straight repeal repeatedly" of the healthcare law, he said.

McConnell's remarks, in a speech delivered to the conservative Heritage Foundation, acknowledged that Obama would veto such legislation, which probably would be blocked by the president's fellow Democrats in the Senate anyway.

More realistically, McConnell said Republicans, who will hold a majority in next year's House of Representatives, should aim to hobble the healthcare law by "denying funds for implementation" of the measure. Annual spending bills for agencies, including ones that implement the healthcare law, are normally written first in the House.

Democrats accused Republicans of putting the interests of large corporations ahead of families.



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[drm604]

1. Bastards

:mad:

[pasto76]

2. Not a surprise, but so anguishingly lame

[bc3000]

3. The health care bill blows anyway

Will I have access to health care to four years?!

The suspense is not killing me.

[Roy Rolling]

4. It's about time

So after boycotting the healthcare debate in Washington and instead staging phony media events at home Republicans will get to work on a healthcare bill? It's about time they returned from a 4-year vacation and whine-a-thon and did theri jobs.

[atreides1]

5. I guess

But to tell the truth, I'd rather be in bus, on a mountain, being driven by Stevie Wonder, then to to really believe that the Republicans are doing "their job".

That job would be representing their constituents, something they haven't done since 1994.

[dflprincess]

6. What they will do is refuse to fund the parts of the bill that actually do people some good

(like the community health clinics) but, they will do nothing to change the parts that keep money flowing to insurance companies & pharma - unless they remove the tax credits for those who qualify for help with their premiums.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Oh no! Not those Health Savings Accounts again--

Useless.