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1 aagcobb  Mar 2, 2015 1:26:43pm

Except for the massive amounts of death and totally unnecessary suffering an adverse ruling would inflict on millions of innocent Americans, it would almost be worth it to watch the GOP deal with the overwhelming backlash which would be caused by the complete collapse of individual health insurance markets in 34 states.

2 lawhawk  Mar 2, 2015 1:31:11pm

This isn’t the plan you’re looking for. /Darth Boehner

There is no plan. Never was a plan. The only thing the House GOP had in mind was repeal. And if they couldn’t vote a repeal, they’d try to delay, if not deny funding for the ACA.

All of those efforts proved futile. So they got behind a lawsuit of dubious merit that claims that a drafting error means millions lose their subsidies, even though everyone based their idea of the subsidies as applying to everyone, regardless of whether the state established its own exchange or grafted on to the federal exchanges. That case will be heard before the Supreme Court in coming days.

Given the court’s rather dubious definition of tangible property (when is a fish not tangible property for purposes of record keeping?) the conservative members of the court hold the subsidies of millions in their hands.

Will they screw over millions in GOP dominated states that refused the exchanges? Will they buy into the nonsense that the GOP has a plan for that very eventuality when they don’t have a plan for what to do about the DHS funding beyond extending it for a week (because we all know that everyone will simply ignore what happened a week ago and think that this week will somehow be different).

The GOP idea of an alternative remains as it has been since 2009 - vaporware and malware.

There is no alternatives on the table. There are no contingencies. There is only the need to see the ACA destroyed.

3 nines09  Mar 2, 2015 1:40:56pm

The GOP never did and never will have a “heath care plan”. It’s all about tearing down. Doing away with. This is about as far as they ever got, and it wasn’t a party decision. Shot on sight.

4 Mike R  Mar 2, 2015 2:29:14pm

The plan is simple, it was explained by Alan Grayson, don’t get sick and if you do die quickly you fucking peasants.

5 nines09  Mar 2, 2015 3:47:52pm

re: #4 Mike R

The plan is simple, it was explained by Alan Grayson, don’t get sick and if you do die quickly you fucking peasants.

Or as they say every day; Fuck you.

6 aagcobb  Mar 3, 2015 7:29:22am

If the GOP actually had a legitimate plan, a logical course would be for them to file a bill and have hearings on it to create an Obamacare alternative. Then if the Court issued an adverse ruling, states which choose not to establish their own exchange could be exempted from most of the current provisions of the ACA and follow the new, GOP alternative plan instead: an experiment in federalism, which would demonstrate that the congressional GOP is, as McConnell claimed, a responsible governing party and not just bomb throwers. Of course, there is no plan that could be devised which the GOP could actually pass.

7 Patricia Kayden  Mar 4, 2015 3:37:14pm

Republican plan = don’t get sick.


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