ALEC's "Nuclear Option" to Kill the Affordable Care Act

[iamthebandfanman]

(sorry if this has been posted and is a dupe!)

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is pushing a new "Obamacare kill bill" to thwart implementation of the Affordable Care Act on the state level, but the bill is based on a thin legal argument, and even some ALEC legislators are calling it "the nuclear option."
The "Freedom of Choice in Healthcare Act," developed by Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute and adopted by ALEC as a "model" in August, is a risky maneuver. The legislation threatens to suspend the licenses of health insurers that accept subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, which Cannon and ALEC claim would effectively thwart the "employer mandate."


http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12315/ALEC_nuclear

[Cirque du So-What]

1. That's the corporate conservative solution?

Burn down the village in order to save it? They couldn't be more obvious in their intentions: corporations save money while everyone else can go pound sand.

[Laelth]

2. I like it.

If they did this, a public option would be required.

-Laelth

[IrishAyes]

3. One thing for sure; there's no depth to which the GOP will not sink.

Since I KNOW I'm not the most brilliant person on earth, I don't feel a bit guilty expecting others to keep up with me. Anything I understand should be simple enough for anyone to grasp. Should be, but apparently isn't. I know the GOP for the monster it is - why can't these other people catch on?

[Volaris]

4. These people must be just rock-solid stupid...

basically the Republican argument is

....we don't like the Federal Gubmint tellin' us what we can and can't do in our State. So WHEN the Federal gubmint says we're doing something 'not good enough', (like seeing to it that people actually have health insurance) and tries to do something about the problem, not only will we REFUSE to help get the problem solved (so the Feds will maybe-sort-of leave us the hell alone LIKE WE WANT) we'll just go ahead and wreck the solution, thereby making the problem worse, and in so doing....


FORCE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO COME INTO OUR STATE IN ORDER TO FIX THE PROBLEM....ONLY HARDER NEXT TIME.