House GOP Seek Delay in Health Care Provisions
By Donna Cassata | Associated Press | 07/17/2013
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? ?House Republicans pressed ahead Wednesday on delaying key components of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, emboldened by the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated.
The House has scheduled votes later Wednesday to delay the law's individual and employer mandates, the 38th time the GOP majority has tried to eliminate, defund or scale back the program since Republicans took control of the House in January 2011.
The votes were a chance to score political points and highlight public skepticism over the law. The legislation is going nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate and the administration said emphatically Tuesday the president would veto the measures.
Republicans seized on the administration's abrupt decision earlier this month to delay for one year, until after the 2014 elections, the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide health coverage for their workers or pay a penalty.
Democrats insisted it was all political theater and another attempt by the GOP to undermine the law.
Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., said Republicans weren't simply trying to delay the requirements. "It is their intention to destroy the Affordable Care Act ... to do away with it, to annihilate it entirely," Crowley said.
He said: "the definition of insanity ... is doing something 38 times and still getting the same results."
The goal of the health care law was to provide coverage to nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance in a massive overhaul of the current system. In a surprise move earlier this month, the Obama administration announced a one-year delay in the employer mandate.
"We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively," Treasury Assistant Secretary Mark Mazur said in a blog post. "We have listened to your feedback and we are taking action."
The White House said in a statement vowing a veto that "it's time for the Congress to stop fighting old political battles and join the president" in boosting the economy and helping the middle class.?
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IMO: The House republicans are back to their old obstruction of anything that will benefit the middle class and poor in this country.
The old obstruction consists of the House consistently quarreling, using treasonous tactics in writing their own bills that are mainly additions to their own mandated agenda, working purely for their own ridiculous mantra of republican austerity that clearly isn?t working.
And using the public media to throw stupid press releases as if they really mean something is entirely useless as American citizens are now aware of the 38 times the republicans have tried to get Obamacare repealed and have failed in every instance. Only radical insanity moves the House activities these days.
Watch them fly like lemmings over the cliff yet another time, as they continue to take taxpayers funds for obstructing the workings of our government thru threats, obstruction, and active hostility toward the president and the nation?s people.
Don?t fall asleep folks, because you are witnessing the complete downfall of what was once a grand old political party that went the way of the dinosaur because they refuse to adapt to the majority of America that thinks we need to work together, not against each other.
Americans deserve as a birthright good medical plans that will alleviate the horrendous state of our health in a free Democracy, plus being the richest country in the world.
Our current health plans are riddled with all kinds of loopholes, greed, extravagant prices for medications, and wholesale corruption including Congress, doctors, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare organizations.
The Obamacare gives the harried American citizen a chance to get a financial 'fix' to our rapidly imploding medical services in this country. Obamacare is already law..now let's go and fight for it !!!
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