House and Senate lawmakers Monday sat down to work on a compromise budget blueprint that could pave the way to repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
"Repealing the president's health care law would pave the way to starting over on patient-centered health care reform where patients and families and doctors are making medical decisions, not Washington, D.C.," House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., said.
The Senate-House Budget Conference Committee held its first meeting aimed at reconciling the differences between the two budgets, authored by Republican majorities in both chambers.
A key element of both plans is a provision that would allow the Senate to repeal Obamacare with just 51 votes, rather than the usual 60 votes.
"After weeks of hard work, the House and the Senate approved our respective budgets last month, both of which were balanced-budget proposals," Price said. "And now, we're here to continue that work and find an agreement on a unified budget resolution."
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Never happen. Face it. Obamacare is working. Overall healthcare costs are going down and even CBO projections for future costs are coming down. Lowest uninsured rates in history and even the states that steadfastly refused to sign on are changing course. Obamacare is here to stay.
ReplyDeletepatient-centered health care reform where patients and families and doctors are making medical decisions, not Washington, D.C.
ReplyDeleteand no mention of how to pay for it
So true 1:22.
ReplyDeleteThey shoved it down our throats this way - we should bring about a better plan the same way!
ReplyDelete1.22 you are crazy. My insurance and all my 100 employees went up 20% and the benefits actually also went down. That's not how it is suppose to work. This is happening to everyone. The only people winning are the ones that did not have insurance before and are getting subsidies to help pay for it.
ReplyDelete3:06. Go ahead. Problem is you don't have a better plan.
ReplyDelete3:59. what were your annual increases before Obamacare? Overall increase rates are going down. Even before Obamacare my companies rates were sometimes increasing as much as 30 percent. Only option was to continually shop around for marginally better rates. Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteYou need a better broker 3:59.
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