(Update at 2:15 p.m.) Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) wants to make change to some parts of the Affordable Care Act and retain other provisions in the wake of today’s United States Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the law.
“We need to put in place provisions we’ve talked about and repeal some of the others,” Dold said today. “I consider the doctor-patient relationship sacrosanct and nothing should come in between that.”
Among other things, Dold wants to get rid of the Independent Patient Advisory Board, a 15-member panel created by the Affordable Care Act charged with finding Medicare savings.
Dold wants to retain the provisions allowing people under 26 to remain on their parents’ coverage and those that prohibit an insurer from withholding coverage from a person because of a pre-existing medical condition. One of Dold’s biggest concerns is the cost of health care.
“I have seen health care costs for my employees rise over 44 percent in the last two years,” Dold said. “This bill fails to improve the quality of health care and it fails to reduce the cost of health care for the American people.”
, on the Affordable Care Act.
(Earlier at 11:55) fears today’s United States Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama’s Affordable Care Act will threaten the country’s economic recovery, according to a statement issued by his office.
Kirk called for repeal of the law. He wants to replace it with reforms that will foster competition in the insurance industry and give people more options purchasing protection.
“The health care law threatens our economic recovery by raising taxes, imposing new regulations and creating a drag on the economy," Kirk said in the statement. "Congress (should) replace it with common sense, centrist reforms that give Americans the right to buy insurance across state lines and expand coverage without raising taxes.”
(Earlier: 10 a.m.) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called today historic with the decision of the United States Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act considering it the most significant law Congress has passed in the last 50 years.
“The law ends insurance industry abuses in the health system, improves Medicare and Medicaid for seniors and the disabled, and covers millions of uninsured Americans,” Schakowsky said in a prepared statement.
According to Schakowsky, more than 86 million Americans have already benefitted from the new law including 6.6 million people under 26 who can remain on their parents’ existing coverage. She thinks it should be a start not a finish.
“This positive decision by the nation’s highest court in the land should resolve any doubts that Congress can and should act to ensure that Americans get the health care they need at a price they can afford,” Schakowsky said. “It will allow us to move forward and maintain our commitment to real health care security.”
The Court’s decision means when the law is fully in place in two more years, people can no longer be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. “No longer will families be bankrupt because someone gets sick,” Schakowsky said. “People with mental illness will get the care they need.”
Patch will have comments from Rep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) this afternoon.
(Earlier: 9:27 a.m.) voted 5-4 today to uphold President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the Court’s liberal wing of Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor to uphold one of the President’s signature accomplishments.
This means all provisions of the law including the individual mandate requiring all Americans without health care to purchase it will take effect.
Patch will have an update later today with the reactions of and .
Willard said the White House was not sleeping well. My guess is he's pulled the Ambian out. As Governor he implemented an almost identical healthcare plan and people like it. Doctors, hospitals, patients. Over 98% insured. The Heritage Society was for the individual mandate. A few sound bites at the right time and even Sheldon's Foreign Sands Casino money can't overcome the irony. Same old politics from the Republicans. Show trials, NRA score card and all.... Bunch of flatulent old men.
The last laugh may be on you. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/the_chief_justice_done_good.html
Had they left it at not being a 'tax' it very certainly WOULD have been...except for the fact that we can repeal pretty much any law and that is exactly what will happen once the elections take place and we get these liberal nuts out of DC. Making it a tax puts one more nail in the administrations hopes for reelection. The PEOPLE were sold on this not being a tax and they were still pissed. Now that its been made obvious that our 'constitutional lawyer in chief' LIED yet again and this time even to his own constituency the PEOPLE are really going crazy about this joke of a law which is just another huge ass tax hike under the guise of heath care...
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/the_chief_justice_done_good.html#ixzz1zDVBWWXh =============================================== absolutely agree. A lot of people, my wife and a list of others I know, had fallen asleep about all this OboboCare. After the SCOTUS ruling my wife started finally reading about the law, as did about half of those others, and all of them are PISSED now that they are beginning to understand what they should have known 18 months ago. My wife wasnt even going to bother to vote this year but thanks to Justice Roberts and keeping ObozoCare alive and exposing that it IS a tax (hello...tied into IRS....TAX....get it?) and she sees how it works more clearly she's voting like I am.....for ANYONE BUT Obama....
Solutions? Conservatives already have the solutions-no need to work on the solutions a whole bunch. Common sense is the solution to most problems. Conservatism is 99.47 percent common sense.
Note that conservatives correctly predicted the results of Wisconsin recall election of Governor Walker. Perhaps our accuracy in predicting Supreme Court decision is not so great, but we call the important stuff, like elections, correctly. The 2012 election will follow the 2010 election model-landslide Republican victory. The TEA party produced the 2010 landslide and will produce the 2012 landslide. Stopping the implementation of Obamacare is relatively easy-President Romney will follow President Obama lead and just ignore the law. President Obama set the precedent of ignoring legally mandated laws and Romney will follow Obama's precedent. Be careful of what you wish for-you just might get it.
President Fidel Obama, I mean President Barack Castro, has sunk the economy. I didn't move to Florida for the sunshine. I moved to Florida to find work. I know people who have been out of work for 2 years and longer. They can't afford to buy food-do you really think that, if you can't afford to buy food becaue Obamacare wrecked the American economy, they are going to pay the tax for not having health insurance? Obamacare destroyed the American economy. What good is health care insurance if you can't afford to buy food or afford the rent for shelter? Something tells me you've got a job-probably a government job-and you're asking yourself: recession, what recession? Yes, RB, 46 million Americans are receiving food stamps because they don't have enough money to buy food. In the America that I knew before President Fidel Obama assumed office, anybody who wanted a job could get a job and buying food and paying rent wasn't an issue. Since President Fidel Obama was elected in 2008, all of that has changed. Why? The answer to that question is that there is no difference between Castro, Chavez and Obama.
The S.S. Obama just hit another iceberg and in 4 months will be joining the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean.
Rasmussen: "Supreme Court Keeps Health Care Law on Life Support" "The U.S. Supreme Court's decision that President Obama's health care law is constitutional keeps it alive for now. But it's important to remember that the law has already lost in the court of public opinion. The Supreme Court ruling is a temporary reprieve more than anything else." http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2012/06/29/rasmussen-supreme-court-keeps-health-care-law-on-life-support/?subscriber=1 "It ain't over until the fat lady sings." The fat lady isn't scheduled to sing for another 4 months.
"First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others"
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Here is a breakdown of what ObamaCare is: http://www.reddit.com/tb/vbkfm It's easy to read and straightforward. I hope this clears up any confusion.
Here is a breakdown of what ObamaCare is: http://www.reddit.com/tb/vbkfm It's easy to read and straightforward. I hope this clears up any confusion.
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http://www.reddit.com/tb/vbkfm It's easy to read and straightforward. I hope this clears up any confusion.
http://www.reddit.com/tb/vbkfm It's easy to read and straightforward. I hope this clears up any confusion.