This morning the House Republican caucus met and arrived at their position in response to the funding resolution that the Senate passed yesterday. As expected, the House is not giving up its fight regarding Obamacare. They will not defund Obamacare, but they will insist on a one year delay in implementation of the individual mandate. The House will also insist that the medical device tax imposed by Obamacare be repealed.
These changes make sense. President Obama has already delayed the law by one year for big businesses. He has also delayed the law for small businesses, although not by a full year. Those changes were actually illegal since Obama does not have the authority to delay a law. Nevertheless, it makes no sense for individuals to have to comply with a law when the employers/businesses do not. There is supposed to be equal treatment of all under American law. In addition, the Obamacare exchanges are clearly not ready to start going next week. There is going to be chaos at first because the federal government has not managed to set up the exchanges in a coherent and complete way. An extra year to prepare makes sense.
The medical device tax has already resulted in some manufacturing jobs leaving the country. Each day that it stays in place, it will just send more jobs overseas. Even worse, the tax just makes healthcare more expensive. We need for healthcare to get LESS expensive.
The media will undoubtedly describe this latest move by the GOP as some sort of terror attack. It is not. It is a move to try to help the average American survive the onslaught that is coming from Obamacare.
These changes make sense. President Obama has already delayed the law by one year for big businesses. He has also delayed the law for small businesses, although not by a full year. Those changes were actually illegal since Obama does not have the authority to delay a law. Nevertheless, it makes no sense for individuals to have to comply with a law when the employers/businesses do not. There is supposed to be equal treatment of all under American law. In addition, the Obamacare exchanges are clearly not ready to start going next week. There is going to be chaos at first because the federal government has not managed to set up the exchanges in a coherent and complete way. An extra year to prepare makes sense.
The medical device tax has already resulted in some manufacturing jobs leaving the country. Each day that it stays in place, it will just send more jobs overseas. Even worse, the tax just makes healthcare more expensive. We need for healthcare to get LESS expensive.
The media will undoubtedly describe this latest move by the GOP as some sort of terror attack. It is not. It is a move to try to help the average American survive the onslaught that is coming from Obamacare.
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