Boehner's Plan for Stopping the ACA [View all]

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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.