First order of business?
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
January 4, 2011 9:04am CST
The House Republicans are jumping into 2011 with attempting to repeal the Health Care Reform Bill.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0314683520110103
The new bill is available to read online at http://rules-republicans.house.gov/News/Read.aspx?id=444
and is up for a vote on January 12th. Wow 8 days to read 2 pages? thats odd.....
It looks like the new bill is picking up some Democrat support
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/04/house-health-care-repeal-vote-pick-dem-votes/
If not repealing, then some lawmakers are proposing defunding the bill.
http://washingtonindependent.com/81303/gop-rep-we-can-de-fund-health-care-reform-instead-of-repealing-it
So, do you think that our Legislators should repeal this, or cut funding, or leave it alone? What are the possible ramifications?
1 response
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
4 Jan 11
I'd like to see the entire law repealed, but if the Senate doesn't go along with it, at least defund it...now...before we spend any more money (like paying Andy G. to tell us how great it is...).
Then I'd like them to start over (after they work on higher priorities, like jobs, economy, etc.). There are some good things in the health care law. Let's find them, pay for them and implement them. In other words, I'm for an incremental approach to fixing things, because there are always so many unintended consequences. But as I noted above, let's work on top priorities first (which Obama and Congress should have been doing) and that now includes downsizing government, reducing the deficit, etc., along with jobs, the economy, etc.
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