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Avik Roy explains that repealing Obamacare via the reconciliation process wouldn’t be difficult for a Republican president with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. All that would be needed would be a repeal bill that strategically left in some of the spending cuts contained in Obamacare in order to make the overall repeal measure deficit-neutral.
What that means is that Republicans would only need 50 votes in the Senate to repeal Obamacare, instead of the usual 60 required to overcome a filibuster. That is to say that repeal is a likelihood if Republicans are able to capture the Senate along with the presidency in 2012. As Roy notes, even Mitt Romney, who is otherwise the biggest question mark on health care in the Republican primary, has committed to repealing Obamacare using reconciliation.
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SassyFrass| 10.19.11 @ 4:12PM
Does this piecemeal approach to repealing Obamacare end the mandate that insurers offer policies without considering pre-existing conditions?
If insurers can't charge more for policies that are going to cost more, insurers won't be profitable. The burden for this bad idea will be carried by the insurers themselves until they go bankrupt. Already some insurers have gotten out of the medical policy business because of this.
This is the poison pill that is the heart and soul of Obamacare. All of the other parts are distractions. If you destroy the medical insurance business by making it unprofitable, you open the door to single-payer.
RayH| 10.19.11 @ 4:25PM
"even Mitt Romney... has committed to repealing Obamacare using reconciliation."
And you believe him?!
PattyMor| 10.19.11 @ 4:39PM
Do I believe Mitt? No, nor do I trust John Boehner or Mitch McConnell. All big governmetn guys. Boehner lied to us over the budget cuts. So what else would he lie about?
Solo| 10.19.11 @ 5:21PM
From the linked article:
"A lasting fix for our health-care system will require both parties working together. It will require the Left to give up on its fantasy of government-run single-payer health care, and will require the Right to recognize the value in achieving universal coverage using market-oriented reforms. ".
No! I disagree.
The left must give up their fantasy of single payer simply because it will eventually bankrupt the nation and place us forever under the bureaucrat's boot--which is EXACTLY what makes in the left's wet dream.
But....for republicans to attempt to achieve "universal coverage" would be, essentially, the same thing: eventual bankruptcy.
There is no "market oriented" solution to universal coverage.
You can bring overall costs down considerably with free market solutions, but you cannot guarantee "universal coverage" without a mandate, ie; forced compliance (also a left wing wet dream).
Without a mandate, some people will always choose to "roll the dice" and defer on coverage and those people will remain "the un-insured".
CalMark| 10.19.11 @ 8:41PM
If we give them the people, and they don't repeal, the Republican Party is DONE.
As in, "going the way of the Whigs."
Then guys like Boehner, McConnell, and the rest of them can go home to the Democrats and do the country a favor by trying to tug them rightward.
If we still have a country.
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