2011 Prediction: Senate Democrats will support a robust "repeal and replace" of HCR.

[LLStarks]

There will be a magical bipartisan and populist agreement or something.

[cali]

1. not gonna happen.

[spanone]

2. i doubt it

[FiveGoodMen]

3. It'll get repealed and replaced by something even worse.

And that new low will be hailed as HISTORIC legislation.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Ridiculous.

Senate Dems to Boehner: We'll block your repeal push
By Greg Sargent
Game on!

In the first official response from Dems to the House GOP plan to repeal health reform, Senate Democrats have penned a sharply worded letter to House Speaker John Boehner vowing that repeal is a dead letter in the Senate, the Associated Press reports.

Here's a copy of the letter itself, and it's well worth reading, because it provides the first clear glimpse of how Democrats will mount their political pushback against the GOP's repeal campaign. The crux of the argument is that repeal would deprive "middle class Americans" of a major reform, i.e., the closing of the Medicare "donut hole":

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/senate_dems_to_boehner_well_bl.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Nope, the health insurers like it

Plenty of bluster though

[Champion Jack]

6. Rubbish

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. I'll take the under. Sucker bet. Na Ga Happen.

If it did happen, on the other hand, such a move would be immensely popular here, at the home of "Kill the Bill".

[Arkana]

8. Yeah this has less chance of happening than Rush Limbaugh suddenly

becoming a liberal.

[stillwaiting]

9. Nope. We're about to be subject to excruciating political theater that will change nothing.

It will convince MANY that the Republicans and Democrats are completely different from each other though.

The health insurance companies were STRENGTHENED by the law that was just passed, and it will remain law.

I will ignore every bit of B.S. that's about to come out of D.C. regarding this law.