Healthcare repeal should be fun if the GOP wins.

[gulliver]

I like the GOP position on HCR if they win back the House. Here is the way I see it playing out.

The Republicans are forced to try to repeal HCR, or the Tea Party will secede. So Republicans open up the healthcare can of worms again. The American public groans. Obama challenges Republicans to open debate on the issue. Like last time, Obama singlehandedly tosses the entire Republican caucus around like rag dolls. Result: Single Payer.

[leftstreet]

1. They'd remove all patient protections, but keep the mandate

Both parties know this is exactly what will happen

No politician is going to 'give' us single payer.

We have to demand it

[littlewolf]

2. they wont repeal it... just won't fund it .....

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Isn't the Senate

the chamber in Congress that holds the purse strings?

How will House Republican'ts be able to refuse funding for HCR?:shrug:

[littlewolf]

5. nope the "peoples house" the House of Representatives

controls all money .... that is why it is called "The Peoples House" it controls spending

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Sorry I got confused. Dodd is a Senator, but he vowed the

Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will not be funded unless Elizabeth Warren is exposed to a witch hunt in the Senate - I mean, is brought before the Senate.

Thanks for straightening that up for me!

[littlewolf]

8. glad to :D

I get confused alot also .... and someone is always around to help me ...
today I got to return the favor ...
:D

[gulliver]

6. I think that will end up in a showdown too.

You are probably right, but I still think it ends the same way. They can't avoid a fight with Obama that they started. And once you get them on TV with Obama, it's all over for them. It will be like a Bruce Lee movie.

[cbdo2007]

4. Really they can't repeal it because most of it was taken from their ideas.

Imagine them trying to repeal it and then supporting Romney in 2012?? He's their only "logical" candidate in 2012 and it will be impossible for them to support him with so much of HCR being taken from his plan in Massachushetts.

[prolesunited]

9. And in the reality-based community...

[mdmc]

10. God Bless Single Payer!

[spanone]

11. they won't repeal it, that would require a lot of work and an alternative plan

they have nothing

[donco6]

12. Now that Big Insurance has figured it out, they're not going to repeal it.

Just tweak it to generate even MORE money for them. They win either way.