Democrats reversing course, gearing up to defend the health care bill.

[Clio the Leo]

Say it with me now ..... Mr. Boehner! WHERE ARE THE JOBS!!!!?

G.O.P. Newcomers Set Out to Undo Obama Victories
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ROBERT PEAR
Published: January 2, 2011

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Democrats, who in many cases looked on the law as a rabid beast best avoided in the fall elections, are reversing course, gearing up for a coordinated all-out effort to preserve and defend it. Under the law, they say, consumers are already receiving tangible benefits that Republicans would snatch away.

House Democrats will get help from allies in the Senate, who can stop any repeal, and at the White House, where officials hope to transform the law from a political liability into an asset, a centerpiece of President Obama’s expected bid for re-election.

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For their part, the Obama administration and Democrats, who largely lost the health care message war in the raucous legislative process, see the renewed debate as a chance to show that the law will be a boon to millions of Americans and hope to turn “Obamacare” from a pejorative into a tag for one of the president’s proudest achievements.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, is coordinating the administration’s response. In a recent speech, she cataloged the damage she said would be done by the law’s repeal. Outside groups that fought for the law, like Families USA and Health Care for America Now, also say they will join the fight to preserve it.

Representative Robert E. Andrews, Democrat of New Jersey, challenged the Republicans to bring it on. “We will respond by pointing out the impact of repeal on people’s lives,” Mr. Andrews said. “On women with cancer who could be denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition. On senior citizens who would lose the help they are receiving to pay for prescriptions.”

Democrats argue that repeal would increase the number of uninsured; put insurers back in control of health insurance, allowing them to increase premiums at will; and lead to explosive growth in the federal budget deficit.

“For months, Republicans have been shoveling out hypocrisy and lies to the American public,” said Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York. Mr. Crowley and more than 60 other House Democrats have demanded that lawmakers pushing for repeal of the new law give up their own government-subsidized health insurance.

The Democrats say Republicans will make a mistake if they focus first on repeal, rather than on finding additional ways to stimulate the economy and create jobs — a mirror image of criticism that Republicans lobbed at Democrats for the last 18 months.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/politics/03repubs.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&ref=politics

[Pholus]

1. Let's go! Hopefully last year's "compromise" was just to show how bad the current crop of GOP is.

In that case, I will gladly admit to the world I was wrong.

[OHdem10]

2. Here is where Democrats must find and make their best argument.

No matter how you feel about Faux, you can always pick
up the serious tidbits you need to understand where
the Republicans are going or where they are coming from.

Last week especially on the Cavuto Show (Cavuto was off
and there was a substitute anchor. Any way he keet
bringing up repealing health care. When Guests would
say --we have been able to cover 30 million more Americans.
That Anchor emphatically stated over and over "WE DO NOT
WANT TO PAY FOR IT."

Up until they have avoided the real truth behind the objection
to HCR. The more Affluent simply do not want to pay for
it. Here is where the real fight lies.

[jtrockville]

4. Sadly, the affluent are already paying for it.

Look at what health care costs in the USA vs everyone else.

Seems to me, the affluent are more than willing to pay double-for-half, just so long as not one thin dime of their payment goes towards caring for someone less fortunate than they are.

[GoCubsGo]

6. If they affluent think that not one thin dime of their payment...

...goes toward caring for the unfortunate, they are sadly mistaken. One of the reasons their insurance and their medical care are so expensive is that the cost of caring for those who can't pay gets absorbed into everyone else's bills. Most hospitals don't take care of these people out of the goodness of their own hearts. They spread the costs out among their other customers. And, these greedy, stupid assholes think they don't have to pay for the unwashed masses, yet they're winding up paying even more for this non-"socialist" health care. Serves them right.

[Sheepshank]

3. The year the media helps to promote the truth?

Ok...well that may be too much to hope for lol. But you know, sometimes the GOP and media lies gets in the way of fully implementing a program. Promoting the truth, pushing back isn't the finesse way, but the only way to get the correct message out.

Rec for hope that the push back is effective, this time.

[WiffenPoof]

5. What Health Care Bill? n/t