Boehner's Plan for Stopping the ACA

[lastlib]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/363899/boehner-upton-bill-step-path-obamacare-repeal-jonathan-strong

This morning, in another conference meeting, Boehner reminded his colleagues about that strategy and explained how bringing the “keep your plan” bill introduced by Representative Fred Upton to the House floor Friday fits into it.

“Remember the strategy for stopping Obamacare we laid out to you back in July. It had two components: Aggressive, coordinated oversight, and targeted legislative strikes aimed at shattering the legislative coalition the president has used to force his law on the nation,” Boehner said, according to a person in the room.

“That plan is being executed as we speak. But none of it will be effective if we aren’t communicating. If we aren’t telling the stories our constituents are sharing, then we’re letting them down. It means we aren’t doing our best to stop this law,” he added.

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The ACA passed. What matters now is the constituencies that have to cooperate to implement the law. Customers have to buy insurance through the exchanges and insurance companies have to offer insurance for for them to buy there. The Upton bill removes nearly all the incentive for people to buy in the exchanges and nearly all the incentive for companies to sell there. It would set up a grandfathered insurance market to operate alongside Obamacare where insurance companies could sell products people wanted to buy and people could buy those products. The exchanges would rapidly become a marketplace without customers or any stock in trade and the ACA would collapse into itself.

Does anybody except Repuglicans and their corporate masters really think we want to go there? We cannot afford to let something like this bill get through Congress. Don't put the monkey on the President's back to veto it. Stop it in its tracks. Talk to your Congress-critters and put the screws to them.

[Mass]

1. The Upton bill will not pass and Boehner knows it. This is a show to keep the Tea Party happy and

for political advantage.

Insurance companies want the exchange to win. They will earn more money this way and stop looking bad. The bill was written by them.

[flamingdem]

5. I sure hope so!

Boner on tv now yapping and it makes me sick!

[jerkstore90210]

2. I don't think his plan will work.

I've been told there aren't that many people losing coverage to make a difference.

[lastlib]

3. You're right.....

But we cannot afford to let the insurance companies and their Congressional toadies control the narrative. We have to get our message out--yes, a small percentage of Americans will be hurt somewhat, but in the long run, everyone will be better off.

[rock]

4. He put in his thumb, pulled out a plumb, and said, "what a good boy am I"

Then he restored his thumb to his mouth, wiped his ass and flushed.

[Romulox]

6. If a for-profit product (insurance) isn't competitive in a free marketplace, then it shouldn't

be a for-profit product. It doesn't deserve to be successful.

Instead, in areas like these in which the so-called "free market" is inadequate, government should step in and provide the services under a not-for-profit paradigm.

Of course, we already have a wildly successful example of this in Medicare.

[lastlib]

7. you're exactly right!

I don't think this country should ever have allowed for-profit health insurance. Our obsession with "free" enterprise in this case has been our undoing.