Scott Walker: I will repeal Obamacare on Day 1 of presidency

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Source: Wisconsin State Journal




4 hours ago • By Molly Beck | Wisconsin State Journal
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Presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker, center, talks with two men after he presented his health care plan on a visit to Cass Screw Machine Products in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on Tuesday.




BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he would scrap President Barack Obama’s signature health care law on his first day in office and replace it with a health insurance system that relies on refundable tax credits based on age instead of household income to help individuals pay for health coverage.

Walker said repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, would free up $1 trillion in levied taxes. Coupling that with savings from the reorganization of Medicaid would pay for his new plan, he said. But he offered few other details about cost estimates, timeline or the number of people affected.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing Obamacare would kick 19 million people off insurance in the first year. Walker did not say what would happen to coverage for those people if his plan was not yet in place, and he did not take questions from reporters.

He spoke at Cass Screw Machine Products in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Company president Steve Wise told reporters his company has a private small-group health plan, and has seen health insurance premiums grow by 36 percent this year. He supports replacing Obamacare, but also said it’s not realistic to repeal it the first day of a new presidential administration without a new plan in place.

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Unless his god gives him a boost-by the looks of his falling poll numbers--Walker will never have a Day 1-

[SheilaT]

1. Could a new President just cancel the ACA?

If so, any President can cancel any law he or she doesn't like.

I'm under the vague impression our system doesn't quite work that way.

[jtuck004]

3. Could a new pres with the help of Congress de-fund or otherwise render moot laws passed

under another?

Of course. And there is quite a bit of executive authority as well, if one chooses to use it.

Could make things very bad very, very quickly.

[pampango]

18. No, but a republican president in 2017 will probably have a republican congress so

all bets are off.

[Springslips]

23. Still wouldn't get it done on the first day.

Shows how ignorant Walker is.

[brush]

26. Yeah, like there isn't a Congress that has a vote

And like there would be no Dems in the Congress to stymie a no-nothing repug rookie president.

[CrispyQ]

2. "Well as long as he doesn't repeal the ACA that's okay with me."

Just remembering one of those candid camera segments some late night show host did, asking people on the street if they supported Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. A few smiled and said, "Clever," but most said "The ACA for sure!"

[WI_DEM]

4. Really? and how would he do that?

[riversedge]

5. Well, in WI he has had Republicans in both houses so he can

snap his fingers and they pass any bill he so desires. Unless we gain back control of the Senate (if by chance he or any Repug makes it to the WH)--he may just have to snap his fingers. but perhaps he does not know of the 60 vote rule. He is rather stupid--cunning bur stiupid IMHO

[Mnemosyne]

17. It appears that the R's have been subtly doing that on a national level for awhile now. nt

[Sunlei]

6. That would suck & I guess Walker would if he could. Never forget, everything hitler did was 'legal'

Walker already has hurt a lot of 'regular people' with his state policies.

[KansDem]

7. Fortunately, Gov., you won't have a "Day 1' of a presidency.

Now, go get back in line with the rest of your GOP loonies.

[irisblue]

8. Isn't he also going to declare war on Iran that day too?

Wanker is going to be busssssyyyyyy.

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. He has no clue how the system works. Congress must repeal the ACA, and then he can sign the bill.

He can not personally repeal a law.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. So will I, when I'm President, Mr Walker. We'll show 'em!

[jwirr]

11. Is he even aware that he needs congress to do that?

[lark]

12. Absolute worst case scenario!

Walker getting elected would plunge this nation into a never-ending nightmare, he's worse than GW. I'm sure day 2 he'd start a war with Iran, one-upping both of the Bush's.

[Marthe48]

13. Stuck in the mire

like all the of stone-age repukes, stuck in the past, unaware of the present, unable to see the future. Their greedy stupidity is sucking our country down into a bottomless quagmire.

[Kingofalldems]

14. I am convinced that smarmy worm will never reach the White House.

Can't believe Wisconsin voters put him into office.

[cosmicone]

15. He should remember what happened to Romney

Romney had promised so many things on "Day 1" Jon Stewart calculated that his Day 1 would have to be 27 days long!

[jmowreader]

16. He can do this all by himself via executive order. Yeah, right.

[asjr]

19. I just look at his face and understand he has a Republican face. They all

look like they are scared out of their skulls.

[alc]

20. Congress would have to do that

Unfortunately there is a precedent for the president to be able to put off parts of the ACA (e.g. the employer mandate) for years. My biggest problems with some of the "adjustments" that have been made to the ACA is that if President Obama can do it with Democrats in congress accepting, what will they say if the next president is a republican who decides to delay/suspend parts of the ACA. He/she can give all the same reasons President Obama has given to delay/suspend almost any part of it.

[procon]

21. What do you call someone who exploits the feedleminded?

A con artist.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

22. What, the presidency of Clowns Incorporated?

[ck4829]

24. And on the third day, pre-existing conditions were resurrected to deny the riff-raff healthcare

"Eww, I don't want the same health insurance as some sick person. Gross."
- The Republican agenda for healthcare.

[Historic NY]

25. Dear Snotty Scotty the congress repeals....

[totodeinhere]

27. Repealing the ACA would take an act of Congress and I assume that the Democrats

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would have enough votes in the Senate to stop that right in its tracks. But to be sure a president if he or she wanted to could do considerable damage to the ACA through various tactics. But outright repeal would be very difficult.

[CatholicEdHead]

33. Let's see how this would be possible

1. House (GOP controlled) Passes ACA repeal couple days before Inaguration
2.Senate (GOP controlled) would use the Nuclear Option to remove the Filibuster on Inauguration Day
3. Senate passes ACA repeal to go with House Vote
4. Day after Inauguration, "President Walker" signs ACA repeal
5. Day after ACA Repeal, GOP Senate votes to put Nuclear Option back in place

Very scary scenario

[totodeinhere]

35. Unlikely. The 115th Congress will convene on January 3rd, 2017.

But the new president will not be inaugurated until January 20. So by the time the next president takes office the Republicans will have probably lost their Senate majority. The Senate would be in a position to block any repeal of the ACA. In the 2016 election the Republicans will be defending 24 seats and the Democrats only 10. And it will be a presidential election where Democrats usually fair better than in midterm elections. The odds that the Democrats will retake the Senate are pretty good.

[left-of-center2012]

28. On his 2nd day

He'll repeal the Constitution.

[Yavin4]

29. Won't he be too busy groveling at the feet of the Koch Bros.?

And getting their drink orders?

[tblue37]

30. Like Trump, Walker and Huckabee seem to think that a president is an

absolute monarch. Trump thinks the president can impose tariffs, Huckabee thinks he can call out the National Guard to stop women from getting a legal medical procedure, and Walker thinks the president can repeal a law that has been passed by congress, signed be a previous president, and repeatedly judged by the USSC to be constitutional.

Unfortunately, American voters don't seem to understand how our government structure is supposed to work, either.

[dhill926]

31. In other words…

Obamacare safe for the foreseeable future…

[GoCubsGo]

32. Snotty needs to take a civics class. n/t

[valerief]

34. Will someone repeal this asshole from Earth? nt

[truthisfreedom]

36. Idiot.