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<\/p>\nRUSH: “House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s health care law. If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most controversial pieces, such as the individual mandate and requirements that employers provide insurance or face fines.” Okay, so far, so good, if the health care bill is left intact, the Republicans say they\u2019re gonna take to the floor and try to take out the individual mandate and the requirement that employers provide insurance or face fines. <\/p>\n
Now, they\u2019re not gonna have the votes to get that done, but they\u2019re gonna put on the show. But now listen. “If the law is partially or fully overturned they\u00c2\u2019ll draw up bills to keep the popular, consumer-friendly portions in place — like allowing adult children to remain on parents\u00c2\u2019 health care plans until age 26, and forcing insurance companies to provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Ripping these provisions from law is too politically risky, Republicans say.<\/p>\n
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“The post-Supreme Court plan — a ruling should come in June — has long been whispered about inside House leadership circles and among the House\u00c2\u2019s elected physicians but is now being discussed with a larger groups of lawmakers, showing that Republicans are aggressively preparing for a big-time health care debate in the heat of an election-year summer. On Tuesday, the major options were discussed during a small closed meeting of House Republican leaders, according to several sources present. Then on Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave the entire House Republican Conference a preview of where the party is heading. His message: ‘When the court rules, we\u00c2\u2019ll be ready.\u2019 But Boehner warned that they\u00c2\u2019ll relegislate the issue in smaller, bite sizes, rather than putting together an unwieldy new health care bill.”<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re floating a trial balloon here to gauge your reaction to this, which is entirely possible. By the way, it\u2019s not new. I\u2019ve heard it said before that the Republicans think holding on to the kids on your policy \u2019til they\u2019re 26 and the preexisting conditions, we don\u2019t want to get rid of that, no, no, no, people like that. We\u2019ve gotta find a way to keep that. You know, that\u2019s been whispered about ever since Obamacare was signed into law, and it has been a point of contention with conservative Republican voters who want this whole thing thrown out. If the court throws it out, don\u2019t put some of it back. This goes to the whole point, they set the premise, and then we end up reacting to it. <\/p>\n
So the premise is, we gotta have a major health care bill. All right, so we have to have a major health care bill. Okay, so Republicans, we\u2019ll do one, but it\u2019ll be smarter and it\u2019ll be better and it\u2019ll be smaller. And that\u2019s the way these things go. So I\u2019m just gonna put it to you. Supreme Court overturns all of health care, just a hypothetical, do you want the Republicans writing a new piece of legislation that would contain provisions for letting your kids stay on your policy \u2019til he or she\u2019s 26 and forcing insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions? I must tell you, when you force insurance companies to cover X, you don\u2019t have insurance anymore. <\/p>\n
Well, the 26-year thing, before Obamacare, kids were on their parents\u2019 policies as long as they were in college. That\u2019s another argument for not going to college. So as long as the kid was in college, yeah, theoretically they weren\u2019t working, well, they\u2019re not gonna be working when they get out of college, either. ‘Cause the theory was the kid could stay on the parents\u2019 policy until he\u2019s 26, while in college. That was supposedly a proviso even before Obamacare. The Republicans, they\u2019re floating it, they want to keep that. Even if the court overturns all of Obamacare, and they want to keep the proviso that forces insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions. <\/p>\n
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Look, I live in Realville. I\u2019m the mayor. You force insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions we\u2019re not talking insurance anymore. We\u2019re talking welfare. It\u2019s not insurance. People don\u2019t want to hear this I know. (interruption) What are the Republicans afraid of? I think the Republicans are afraid of what the Democrats are going to say if the whole thing\u2019s overturned. And it\u2019s very predictable. Obama and the Democrats — and I\u2019ll bet you the ads are already done. “Five white people on the Supreme Court took your health insurance away from you. Well, four white guys and a traitor that\u2019s black took your health coverage away from you, took your health care away from you. They still have theirs. They still have theirs but they just took yours. You know that\u2019s what the campaign\u2019s gonna be. In fact, there\u2019s a part of me that believes Obama actually wouldn\u2019t mind that, since he\u2019s totally focused on getting reelected right now. I mean without that all the rest of what he wants to do is academic. <\/p>\n
Some of the ridiculous stuff that he\u2019s doing now oriented toward getting reelected, it\u2019s not a stretch to believe that he wouldn\u2019t have a problem with this thing being found unconstitutional, \u2019cause, boy, what an opportunity they would think that is. “The Republican judges on the court,” is what they would say. “The Republican judges on the court just took away your health care that we worked for a hundred years to get you. Over Republican objections, every congressional term, Republicans have always opposed you having health care, free health care, affordable health care,” all those words will be thrown in. And five Republican judges just took it away from you. That\u2019s what the Republicans are afraid of. So if it\u2019s overturned and that campaign starts, what the Republicans in Congress want to do, “No, no, no, we like some provisions of this.” That\u2019s why they\u2019re floating this. I guarantee you. Well, I can\u2019t guarantee you. I think they\u2019re floating this to gauge reaction to it. So I thought I\u2019d put it out there and let you react however which way you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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