Repeal and Replace?
Not so fast. An insurance-company defector explains why the most controversial provision of the health-care law will survive.
GOP Launches Bid To Repeal Health Care Law : NPR
The formal title of the two-page bill the House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday is "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." But in the wake of the recent shootings in Arizona that killed six people and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the phrase "job-killing" was barely mentioned during the first few hours of debate on the House floor.
Instead, many Republicans used more restrained language to describe their distaste with the health measure passed last year.
Health Care Law Repeal Taken Up In House
WASHINGTON — As the fight over health care returned to the House floor on Tuesday, the debate could largely be stripped down to four questions that are relatively simple to ask, if not to answer:
January 18, 2011
Vocal Physicians Group Renews Health Law Fight
By BARRY MEIER
A small professional group of doctors involved in the effort to repeal the new health care law has a history of opposing government involvement in medicine, including challenging President Bill Clinton’s attempts to overhaul health care in the 1990s.
The group, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has exerted vocal influence in the country’s health care debate, despite having just 3,000 dues-paying members. Other medical groups assert that the association’s positions are unrepresentative of most of the nation’s 800,000 physicians and that its scientific views often fall outside medicine’s mainstream.
Ultimate GOP Aim Is A Slimmer Health Plan
WASHINGTON — A health care repeal vote expected today will send a highly symbolic political message — the icing on the midterm elections that gave Republicans control of the House — but the GOP’s effort to undermine the rollout of the contentious measure and put its own imprint on health care will probably hinge on smaller attempts to change the law.
Claims By House GOP Don’t Justify Repeal Of Health Reform
AS HOUSE Republicans move today to repeal the landmark health reform law, the first reports on its provisions are filtering in. They are all premature — the law doesn’t take full effect until 2014 — but show, perhaps predictably, a mixed bag of successes and at least one initial failure. Yet none of the reports begins to justify the Republican call for repeal, let alone their core claim that the law would “cost’’ 650,000 jobs.
House Begins Debate On Health-Care Repeal With A Collegial Tone
This time around, there were no frightening warnings about "death panels" for the elderly or a "holocaust" of uninsured Americans.
Returning to official business Tuesday for the time since the tragedy in Tucson, the House took up a contentious issue certain to test lawmakers' powers of restraint: health-care reform. Republicans promised during the 2010 campaign to dismantle President Obama's signature domestic policy initiative, but now, in the transformed political environment of the past 10 days, the debate has come to represent a civility test for elected officials.
Healthcare Repeal: House Begins Debate With Less-Heated Rhetoric
Reporting from Washington —
With the Tucson shootings as a backdrop, the House began debating a Republican resolution Tuesday to repeal
President Obama's healthcare overhaul.
Both sides took pains to dial back the heated rhetoric that accompanied passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year.
Maine Joins Legal Fray Over Health Care Reform
Posted: January 19
Updated: Today at 11:01 PM
Updated: Today at 11:01 PM
Maine Attorney General William Schneider has asked to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law.
At Schneider's request, the state of Florida is filing a court motion to allow Maine to join the federal lawsuit pending in that state. Maine is one of six states seeking to join the suit. Florida is the lead plaintiff, and 19 other states are already officially listed as plaintiffs. It is one of several federal suits challenging the Affordable Care Act.
A Pre-Existing Health-Conditions Study Says Half The Country Is Uninsurable. - By Timothy Noah
By Timothy NoahPosted Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, at 8:37 PM ET
In 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his second inaugural address, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." One-third was (Paul Krugman points out in his book The Conscience of a Liberal) a guess rather than a statistic, because the U.S. government had not yet calculated what the poverty line was, much less how many people were situated below it. Nevertheless, the speech helped Roosevelt consolidate support for the New Deal and cement a three-decade realignment of presidential politics.
JANUARY 13, 2011, 3:47 PM
Wishful Thinking on Health Costs
By DAVID LEONHARDTOpponents of the health law sometimes like to suggest that cutting health costs would be easy, if only we’d be willing to try common-sense ideas. But that’s wishful thinking. The law does include most of the common-sense ideas supported by health economists ranging from Mark McClellan (the former Bush administration official) to David Cutler (a former Clinton and Obama adviser). There’s just no getting around the fact that reducing the growth rate of health costs will be difficult.
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