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Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law

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House Republican Leader John Boehner has said that his party will repeal the new health care law if the GOP gains a congressional majority in November.

"I think that we need to repeal the health care law and replace it with common-sense steps that will lower the cost of health insurance in America," Boehner (R-OH) tells NPR's Steve Inskeep.
Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPR

That's exactly what the American masses wanted to here.
Talk about giving people something to vote for... driving people to the polls... perfecto.

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Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPR

That's exactly what the American masses wanted to here.
Talk about giving people something to vote for... driving people to the polls... perfecto.

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If the GOP gets the majority we need to hold them to it. I hope they aren't a massive dissappointment like the party that led to a liberal majority in '06.
 
You mean the health care bill that he now says has Republican ideas in it - allowing children to the age of 26 to stay on parents policy and stopping insurance companies practice of 'rescission' - when before he said those mean ol' Democrats wouldn't let them have any Republican ideas in the bill.

Taking credit after the fact, kinda reminds me of those photo-ops with the oversized stimulus checks the Republicans were handing out a few months ago.

And those polls that the cons are so enamored with these days, put Boehner - along with his sidekick, McConnell - at the bottom of the polling of the big 5 (President, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, House Minority Leader and Senate Minority leader).
 
I do not mean to sound skeptical but I only see the republicans only using this issue for votes and nothing else. At most what they'll do is give the issue a token vote when ever there is a significant amount of liberal republicans and democrats around so they can say they tried and ignore issue afterwords until the next elections.
 
You mean the health care bill that he now says has Republican ideas in it - allowing children to the age of 26 to stay on parents policy and stopping insurance companies practice of 'rescission' - when before he said those mean ol' Democrats wouldn't let them have any Republican ideas in the bill.

Taking credit after the fact, kinda reminds me of those photo-ops with the oversized stimulus checks the Republicans were handing out a few months ago.

Or that Grassley is now taking credit for?

Grassley’s Provisions for Tax-exempt Hospital Accountability Included in New Health Care Law[/CENTER]

M E M O R A N D U M


To: Reporters and Editors
Re: tax-exempt hospitals provisions in new health care law
Da: Wednesday, March 24, 2010


Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over taxes, has worked to hold tax-exempt hospitals accountable for the federal tax benefits they receive. The health care legislation signed into law yesterday includes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards for the tax exemption of charitable hospitals for the first time. The bill requires that a hospital complete a community needs assessment once every three years and adopt and publicize a financial assistance policy; prohibits billing those who qualify for financial assistance the top rates; and prohibits a hospital from taking extraordinary collection actions if the hospital has not made reasonable efforts to notify patients of its financial assistance policy. The bill also requires the IRS to review the tax-exempt status of each hospital every three years; requires Treasury and Health and Human Services to submit an annual report to Congress on the level of charity care, bad debt expenses and the unreimbursed costs of means-tested and non-means-tested government programs; and requires Treasury and HHS to provide a report in five years on the trends on the items reported on an annual basis. Grassley made the following comment on the advancement of these provisions.


“Tax-exempt hospitals don’t have many measures of accountability for their special status. The law hasn’t given them much direction, and so they’ve defined standards for themselves. Sometimes that’s resulted in providing very little charitable patient care or other community benefits, failing to publicize charitable care to patients, charging indigent, uninsured patients more than insured patients, and using very aggressive collection practices. The Government Accountability Office and others, including the former IRS commissioner, have said for a long time that there is often no discernible difference between the operations of taxable and tax-exempt hospitals. These new provisions are modeled after principles and polices that the Catholic Health Association has had in place for years. I appreciate the association’s willingness to have honest, forthright conversations about charitable hospitals’ activities. The provisions take steps to differentiate tax-exempt hospitals from for-profit hospitals and provide further transparency about tax-exempt hospitals’ fulfilling their charitable mission. Congress, the IRS, and the public will now have additional tools and information to ensure that charitable hospitals act charitably.”


The provisions enacted in the new health care law are the result of Grassley’s leadership on tax-exempt organizations’ accountability and transparency, including hospitals. In 2005, he sent letters of inquiry to some of the nation’s largest tax-exempt hospitals. In 2006, he convened a hearing and released a summary of the hospitals’ responses. In 2007, he released a staff discussion draft of potential legislative reforms and convened a roundtable of experts to discuss the potential reforms. In 2008, he followed up with letters of inquiry to more hospitals and received a report he’d requested from the Government Accountability Office. In 2009, he drafted legislative reforms and succeeded in persuading the Democratic majority to include several of the reforms in the new health care law.​


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Yep, "the public will now have additional tools and information to ensure that charitable hospitals act charitably”".

I'm so glad Grassley voted for the bill. Oh wait, he didn't. *shrugs*:mrgreen:

Is that the bill he will now work to repeal? Or is he going to go against Boehner and the GOP?​
 
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The masses don't you mean just tea parties, and the fact most want the health care bill passed with a public option. I did a poll about this yesterday, and so far people who have said No is equal to 42%, and the one who said yes equal to 58%. The masses want a public option, and support the health care reform


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The people who think ObamaCare is the right way to go 45% said no, and 31% said yes, and 24% say somewhat meaning their are more people who think Obama is going in somewhat the right directions.
31% +24%= 55% is somewhat for Obama
RyrineaNara's poll: Obamacare What are your thoughts?

The masses clearly want something done with the health care system...
 
Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law : NPR

That's exactly what the American masses wanted to here.
Talk about giving people something to vote for... driving people to the polls... perfecto.

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It's dishonest. There is no way the GOP can mathematically get enough seats in both houses to present a bill and override Obama's veto.

Then which provisions will they try to individually repeal? Children to be allowed on their parents insurance until they are 26? Re-instituting the denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions? Which, for children or adults? The portion Grassley is taking now taking credit for?
 
I agree with Gina, it is dishonest to say all Americans don't support this bill. What the republicans are doing is just to get tea parties to vote for them.
 
RyrineaHaruno said:
The masses clearly want something done with the health care system...

Yes, but they'd rather see it improved. Not this.
 
The GOP needs to grow a pair and make this a top priority. 'We the people' need to hold them accountable, too, otherwise it's just going to be more Republican lip-service.

Repeal this god damn monstrosity!!!
 
Good luck getting 67 votes on that. This is just another right wing lie to try to get votes and make themselves look like they're doing something. They are so transparent and pathetic.
 
It's nice to see that there is still hope for America :mrgreen: However, these Republicans better stick to their promises! They care too much about what the liberal media says about them and they compromise good ideas to seem "moderate." I will vote solid Republican all the way through in November, and if elected they better not disappointed me and the others who voted them in. I'm more disappointed with the Republicans than I am with the Democrats. This is great news to hear coming from the GOP, but I would like to believe it and not have to worry about empty rhetoric coming from Republitards who will flip flop once in office.
 
The masses don't you mean just tea parties,
Yes, they are part of it.

and the fact most want the health care bill passed with a public option. I did a poll about this yesterday, and so far people who have said No is equal to 42%, and the one who said yes equal to 58%.
You did a poll! OK. That settles it.
I'll forget about what the most accurate pollster's results say.
Your scientific methodology is certainly superior to Scott Rasmussen's... and the art community is known for their quasi communist... I mean free market enthusiasm.

You win.

But just in case you are interested.. please have a seat:
60% Believe Health Care Law Will Increase Deficit, 58% Favor Repeal
Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports

"The first duty to yourself is to stop fooling yourself."
Chinese Proverb

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This is a health care law that is going to improve the system.

Won't improve it for me. Won't improve it for anyone I know. In fact, it'll hurt us.

Sounds like you're hanging out with the wrong people. Or the right people won't let you hang out with them.
 
Hold on. Let me grab some popcorn and a beer first.

I'm doing the same... it's a fun Saturday... sit back... get educated about ObamaKare.. and follow the ObalmaVera fallout.

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Good luck getting 67 votes on that.

Don't need 67 votes. A simple majority can vote down any budget which includes appropriations from the health care bill in it.
 
It's dishonest. There is no way the GOP can mathematically get enough seats in both houses to present a bill and override Obama's veto.

Then which provisions will they try to individually repeal? Children to be allowed on their parents insurance until they are 26? Re-instituting the denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions? Which, for children or adults? The portion Grassley is taking now taking credit for?


There is no way to get enough votes to override an Obama veto, the hope is to gain enough seats to be able to defund the bill, until such time as we have a president that will repeal the law.

Why would anyone want to get rid of the provisions that make sense?
 
This is a health care law that is going to improve the system.

This is a health care law that is going to bankrupt the system.

Improving the health care system is not at issue here, being able to honestly pay for the improvements is.
 
It's nice to see that there is still hope for America :mrgreen: However, these Republicans better stick to their promises! They care too much about what the liberal media says about them and they compromise good ideas to seem "moderate." I will vote solid Republican all the way through in November, and if elected they better not disappointed me and the others who voted them in. I'm more disappointed with the Republicans than I am with the Democrats. This is great news to hear coming from the GOP, but I would like to believe it and not have to worry about empty rhetoric coming from Republitards who will flip flop once in office.


This is why I am voting against John MCain for senate this time.
 
please, PLEASE boehner/GOP, PLEASE continue to market your party in this way
 
It will end health care insurance with the anti DISCRIMINATION part of the bill. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One of these is a republican idea by allowing kids to stay on their care giver polices. Gives SMALL BUSINESS TAX CREDITS of, and of bans any insurances company from dropping people when they get sick
They also help early retirees in the bill it also is increasing the funding for small community health care centers. It will also Hold the insurance companies for ACCOUNTABLE FOR UNREASONABLE RATE HIKES.

Please do some research on this at this website.


Zimmer you used the republican polling system it well know hack that no new organization uses other than Fox news.
 
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please, PLEASE boehner/GOP, PLEASE continue to market your party in this way

I hope they do so as well ;) Repealing the healthcare bill is popular amongst the American people RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Obama and Democrats' Health Care Plan Those numbers depict an average for support/opposition to the law. Here is a poll by Rasmussen that says
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of likely voters nationwide favor repeal, while 38% are opposed.

Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports

Se yes, I agree that Republicans should push this kind of a message, it's a great thing.
 
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