Harkin warns: No repealing or defunding healthcare reform on my committees

[bluestateguy]

Obama is not going to veto any HCR repeal.

He won't have to.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/127769-harkin-no-repealing-or-defunding-health-reform-on-my-committees

Harkin warns: No repealing or defunding healthcare reform on my committees
By Mike Lillis - 11/04/10 03:23 PM ET

A well-placed Senate Democrat warned Thursday that efforts to scale back the new healthcare reform law will hit a brick wall in the upper chamber.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — chairman of both the Senate Health Committee and the Appropriations health subpanel — said proposals to repeal or defund the reforms have little chance getting through the committees he heads.

“Republicans are seriously misreading this election if they claim a mandate to drag us back to the days of out-of-control health care spending and insurance company abuses and discrimination," Harkin said in a statement. "Ordinary Americans will not stand for it, and neither will I."

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[rurallib]

1. Proudly from Harkin's Iowa

uh - sorry about that Grassley thing.

[paulflorez]

4. Not to mention Iowa's three SC justices and governor

and the Dems trying to hold back a Republican controlled assembly and split senate.

Hello amendment to take away marriages from gay couples in Iowa.

[rurallib]

9. thank goodness the amendment process is somewhat complicated

it just won't happen overnight.
Then I would suspect it would go to the SCOTUS

[paulflorez]

13. Iowa's process is better than California's at least

In California, amendments only take a simple majority vote of the people. Mob rule at its best.

I'm hoping that Iowa's Dems can keep Senate and hold back the Republican pressure.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Amen! Speaking of, I haven't even seen him crow that he won.

I hope Harkin sticks to his guns.

[Coexist]

2. knr

[jaxx]

3. The Senator has just shut the door.

Now go and have a tantrum orange man and chinless.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Good!

As long as he and the others keep pounding the parts about insurance company abuses and discrimination, we'll do okay. Let's hope they all show that kind of backbone, not just here, but with every stunt the rethugs try to pull.

[Pirate Smile]

7. The Health Care Industry & Insurance Companies are also going to pressure the Republicans to not

defund the reform either because, according to them, it would be a disaster.

They can't "defund" the regulatory changes that required 60 votes - must cover pre-existing conditions, no annual or life-time limits, etc. If they defund the setting up of the exchanges or the mandate to bring more healthy people into the system = disaster.

[Sugarcoated]

8. Harkin needs to get out into the media

and defend, explain, tell the truth, before the Repubroaches infest their propaganda on this

[myrna minx]

10. Thank you Senator.

;patriot:

[DFLforever]

11. Good to hear.

The first shot across the bow comes from the great state of Iowa.

[Jester Messiah]

12. Excellent!

And it validates what I've been saying since the election. If they think there's going to be any less gridlock, they're sorely mistaken.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. this is exactly what the republicans are planning on

they will pass repeal of all or part of the HCR Law. When it passes and moves to the Senate and gets buried in committee they will be able to say to the people who elected them (many of whom voted for them with repeal in mind), "We did what you sent us here to do. We passed legislation repealing HCR as you wanted us to. We did the will of the people which was so evident in this election. Now, the Democrat controlled Senate has decided to stand in the way of the changes you have demanded."

This will be the rally-cry going into 2012. This and anything else they decide to pass that doesn't get through the Senate. Bet your last dollar on it. Will it work? Who's to say? But they will do it...

sP