http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-gop-employer-health-plans-grandfathered-bill
House Republicans have yet another plan to undermine Obamacare, though it's not getting all that much attention mere weeks before the midterm elections.
Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is also running for Senate against Mary Landrieu (D-LA), introduced the latest ploy. It was cleared by the House Rules Committee on Tuesday and now heads to the House floor, where it is scheduled for a vote this week.
If the bill passes, Senate Democrats won't take it up. But it's a reminder that, while the Republican dream of repeal might be dying, they haven't totally given up symbolic gestures to undercut the law.
Cassidy's bill would allow insurers to keep selling non-Obamacare-compliant plans to employers through 2019, which would largely affect small employers with 50 or fewer employees. The Obama administration has already given the same option to those in the individual market through 2016, after the outcry over the "keep your health plan" controversy last fall.
But the House GOP's latest bill would significantly broaden that so-called "fix" and extend it through the end of the decade. The small-business market that would be affected accounts for at a minimum 17 percent of the covered workers in the United States, or roughly 26 million people. That market is a major focus of Obamacare, remade under its insurance reforms and targeted by the insurance exchanges that opened last year.
okay ObamaCares is working it is not a train wreck or an abomination republicans have it states that originally denied their people while trying to deny Pres. are coming around, all is good and getting better, now republicans are at it again trying to deny you lawful affordable health care that we found out was not all the misleading lies they claimed it to be yet they want to take it away from you just as you're getting happy with your new plan as opposed to the overcharged care lacking subpar piece of crap ins. co's were forcing on you, they are trying to take you back now. don't let this happen be there Nov. 4th.
polls telling bus they have a good chance to take it all really even if all who voted for them before do so again we voted more, that is the key look at where we are and where we would be if Romney had lied and bought his way in? no matter what the claim they are doing it to all of "WE THE PEOPLE".
