Senate Votes to Repeal Obamacare

Marathon Voting Session Ends With Senate Passing Obamacare Repeal

The Senate is already rolling back President Barack Obama’s legacy.

It passed the continuing resolution, S. Con.Res. 3, that tears away the fees, taxes and subsidies from the 201o Patient Protection and Affordable Cart Act, Obamacare, shortly after 1:25 Thursday morning, 51-to-48.

All Republicans, except for Sen. Rand Paul (R.-KY), voted for the resolution. Paul criticized the budget resolution for not addressing the federal debt and for not having a companion replacement bill. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-CA), who is recovering from a scheduled medical procedure was absent from the chamber.

 

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I can only think this is a good thing, even though there may be some short-term pain. Assuming the Congress gets replacement legislation in place quickly.

 

The libertarian/Constitutionalist in me wants to point out that the U.S. Constitution provides not one shred of authority for the Federal government to create, mandate, or sell health insurance. The best thing they could do is to mandate a level playing field for private insurers - and that would be to remove any boundaries to selling across state lines.

 

But no one asked me. No worries, though: I volunteered to provide my opinion here. :)

I Hate to Say We Told You So

but we told you so.

Several thousand Alaskans who buy insurance on the individual market under the Affordable Care Act will see their premiums increase in 2016 at one of the highest rates in the country. The state already has the highest premiums in the nation.

Now they'll find out how much "free" really costs.

"Obamacare is Not a Train Wreck"

The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a "trainwreck.” That means it’s a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or failure. It’s NOT.

This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism. It’s not a failure, it’s Obama’s grand success. It’s not a “train wreck.”

ObamaCare is a suicide attack.

He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate- so we agree under duress to accept big government. Obama’s hero and mentor was Saul Alinsky -- a radical Marxist intent on destroying capitalism. Alinsky’s stated advice was to call the other guy “a terrorist” to hide your own intentions. To scream that the other guy is “ruining America,” while you are the one actually plotting the destruction of America. To claim again and again…in every sentence of every speech…that you are “saving the middle class,” while you are busy wiping out the middle class.

Read the rest at the link.

Discussion?

Making History - Ignoring Reality

Today's headlines at Drudge:

- Widespread Glitches in 34 States

- "Expect Months of Glitches" [@ Barry]

- 20% Plan to Not Buy Insurance

- Sebelius: "We're About To Make Some History"

Minutes after its inaugural 'launch' the ACA aka ObamaCare aka the Democrat's Socialist Health Care Plan crashed.

- Hard.

They have had THREE YEARS to get ready, and this is the result.

- Possibly the most "historic" government FUBAR ever...and that's saying something.

And yet the Democrats are saying the Republicans are somehow at fault for daring to 'suggest' that this gross swindle be delayed a year?

- I guess they have to 'blame' somebody, but notwithstanding the charade or the theatrics, the Democrats (C) completely 'own' this one...yes YOU Barry, Nancy Reid, Harry Pelosi and all the rest of you.

I think it was Ayn Rand who said: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."

- Democrats (C), let me introduce someone you've apparently not met yet...I present Messrs. Reality and Consequences.

h/t Rico @ Theo's place

Obamacare Quote of the Day

"In his speech yesterday, Obama said, "There are folks out there who are actively working to make this law fail." Nope, the law is failing just fine on its own."

~ Amy Payne, The Foundry

Best Obamacare Quote EVER!

You know things are bad when you can’t even successfully implement your own bad ideas.
—
Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) July 03, 2013

Alaska Says No to ObamaCare Health Insurance Exchange

On Tuesday, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell "rejected the idea of a state-run health insurance exchange under the federal health care law."

In a statement, Parnell said using state funds and personnel to design and implement an exchange is the most expensive option before the state. 

"It doesn't make sense to spend Alaskans' dollars to set up an exchange when so much uncertainty exists about how to implement it and how to gain federal approval," he said. 

Alaska was one of the states that sued over the health care law. During a news conference following the court's decision, Parnell said that, where reasonable, he wants to shift back to the federal government costs associated with implementing the law.

 

Governor Parnell: Alaska Will NOT Implement ObamaCare

From an AP story in the Anchorage Daily News:

JUNEAU -- Gov. Sean Parnell took a defiant stand Thursday against the federal health care overhaul Congress passed last year, declaring that he will refuse to implement a law he views as blatantly unconstitutional ... in Parnell’s view the decision by a federal district judge in Florida, striking down the law as unconstitutional, “is the law of the land, as it pertains to Alaska.”

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“The state of Alaska will not pursue unlawful activity to implement a federal health care regime that has been declared unconstitutional by a federal court,” Parnell told the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, to applause, Thursday.

Parnell said the state will pursue lawful, market-based solutions of its own. That includes looking at the potential for a health insurance exchange without the “shiny but poisonous apple” of federal dollars and mandates “that create federal dependency and control.”

He faced a Friday deadline for applying for federal funds to help set up an exchange and faced pressure from seven Democratic state senators to do so. He refused.

Read the rest at the link.