Pelosi: Repeal of health care act "unrealistic"

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., smiles as she watches the breaking news from the Supreme Court which upheld the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, June 28, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, was instrumental in helping to pass health care reform in Congress and was at President Obama's side when he signed it into law. / (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(AP) WASHINGTON - Minority leader Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats are happy to debate dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but repeal is unrealistic.

In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" slated to air Sunday, Pelosi says Republicans from Mitt Romney to members of Congress are "being the mouthpiece of the health care industry" when they talk about reversing the Affordable Care Act.

Pelosi says the act puts people "in charge of how they receive coverage and health care."

She said Republicans "will ask for repeal, repeal of all the things ... that help children, help young adults, help seniors, help men or women who may have prostate cancer, breast cancer, whatever it is, any precondition. And everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access."

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"So that's what they want to repeal," she said. "we're happy to have that debate."

The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a highly anticipated decision issued on Thursday.

The House is scheduled to vote to overturn the law on July 9. The vote will largely be symbolic since the Democrats control the Senate. But it will put lawmakers on record for the upcoming political campaign.

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In the wake of the Court ruling, more than half of Americans (56 percent) say they would like to see the law's detractors stop trying to block its implementation and instead move on to other national problems, while 38 percent say opponents should continue trying to halt the ACA.

Democrats, not surprisingly, are overwhelmingly likely to support the idea of moving on (82 percent), but they are joined by 51 percent of independents and 26 percent of Republicans.

http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8329-F.PDF

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Sorry republicans, but even mcconnell sees that it's an uphill battle for repeal without any replacement, and with the majority of Americans against the GOP need for repeal, it's done and we will move forward!

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occupy_cbs July 1, 2012 4:37 PM EDT
"The republican mantra today is just "REPEAL," since the GOP has absolutely no concrete replacement, and wants to keep the status quo of spiraling health care costs!"


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DJ_34_14 July 1, 2012 5:37 PM EDT
"BULL, it is Repeal and REPLACE. Just because you don't like it does not make it true. They DON'T want to keep the status quo, you need to listen for a change...Oh and this is why you are known as a liar"
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Why must you ideological republicans make so many personal attacks on other posters, by calling them "liars" without any PROOF of your personal opinions? No wonder you keep coming back for more with a new username each week, by being unable to follow the rules here.

The republicans have dropped the REPLACE part of their mantra, since they are bereft of any new ideas, and just want to keep the status quo of our miserable health care system -- with more than double the cost of the rest of the developed world, with worse results.


Here's your heroes of your republican party, just last week:

Republicans Drop Talk Of Health Care 'Replace' -- For Now

Republicans have removed "replace" from their mantra of "repeal and replace. No mention of replacing the law."

"I got a call from Speaker Boehner last Friday," said Rush Limbaugh on his radio show Wednesday. "He called a lot of people and he was telling us what the Republican plan is. And it was repeal, repeal, repeal. Regardless of what happens. He made it clear that repeal -- and not repeal and replace, but repeal -- was going to be the focal point for the House Republicans."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/republicans-drop-pretense-of-health-care-replace.php

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Get it yet??

"He made it clear that repeal -- and not repeal and replace, but repeal -- was going to be the focal point for the House Republicans."

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sandy 1027 July 2, 2012 8:21 AM EDT
"When the health care law was being shaped,efforts were made to make the law bi-partisan.Initially, there was a group of 6(I believe), comprised of 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans.They worked to craft a bill for a long time.At a certain point, it started to seem as if some of the GOP members of this group weren't just using stalling tactics, but were actually attempting to sabotage the bill.The group disbanded, but there were Republican ideas incorporated into the health care bill/law.[The individual mandate, that landed the law in the Supreme Court was, originally, one of those Republican ideas]."




All very true, yet the republicans still complain that they had no input on the legislation, and it was all done in backrooms like all other legislation, but this was more lies by the GOP.

Fact is, not only is the mandate that the GOP hates today, one of their premier ideas in order to promote "personal responsibility" like Chief Justice Roberts said in his Majority Opinion, but also Sections 1302, 1312, 1333 and 6801, were all republican cost-saving ideas that made it into the final law. These include selling insurance across state lines, health care exchanges for larger pools among individuals and small businesses, medical malpractice reform and "the Waiver for State Innovation," which gives states the power to junk the whole of the health-care plan -- that means the individual mandate, the Medicaid expansion, all of it -- if they can do it better and cheaper.

As you can see, NONE of the reddest of republican states have come up with a "better and cheaper" method after more than 2 years, so obviously, the GOP is out of ideas for REPLACEMENT of the PPACA! LOL!

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This is also the proof that the republicans still have not read the constitutional law, since they keep parroting the same lies and deceptions from their usual right-wing sources.

[stljoe]

" everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access"

Except we already know from the CBO and other research organizations that the cost of care is going up not down as a result of Obamacare. Better care and better access are harder to predict but there is no credible reason to believe either will improve. Never let the truth get in the way of a good talking point though Cruella.

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No, that ignorant statement is taken completely out of context, since the CBO says that health care costs will continue to increase like the past 2 decades until it is fully implemented in 2014, and then costs will decrease as tens of millions more are brought into the system, and the for-profit insurance industry must spend 80-85% of their income from premiums on actual health care!

[stljoe]

The CBO analysis has done a clear compare and contrast in terms of federal spending with and without Obamacare and Obamacare raises the baseline substantially over what it would be without the legislation to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. There is ignorance in this conversation but it is coming from people like you who can only parrot the line from the administration and propaganda outfits like the huffington post.

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ROCKYI941 July 1, 2012 10:00 PM EDT
"giant step toward socialism"




LOL! These dramatic buzz words from a retiree on both Social Security and Medicare, trying to keep other Americans from having affordable health care from the for-profit insurance industry -- not like his government-run and government subsidized health care and government check!

[mredbourn]

The repeal will be much much easier now because funding is a tax.

And the Congress and the Senate can annul the tax.

Dems are trying to pretend that it's not a tax.

But the Supreme Court said it's a tax or a gonna.

So it's a tax!

[stljoe]

Except this bill actually spends hundreds of billions more at the federal level to help people freeload on the taxpayer. If you are concerned about free loaders you should be opposed to this bill. Of course you aren't. Trained parrots don't think they just repeat the talking points the huffington post provides them.

[Dan1718]

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This is the woman who's congress worked with the president to create Obamanomics.

US News - June 27, 2012
Who has suffered the largest percentage of losses in both wealth and income? The middle class of America. The median family income of $49,600 in 2007 had by 2010 fallen to $45,800—and in the two years since 2010 such families have gotten poorer. The biggest reduction in net worth in percentage terms affected families headed by 35-to-44-year-olds, whose median net worth dropped 54 percent over the three-year period ending in 2010 and continues to decline to this day. So for most American families, especially the middle class, there has been no recovery at all.

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by Misanthrope-Obama July 1, 2012 4:27 PM EDT
The dingbat Nancy Pelosi being a House Representatives for as long as she has is "unrealistic' but there she still is.
Never say never Botox Nancy the dingbat.

'But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,'
Nancy Pelosi

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by Sam2012go July 1, 2012 4:11 PM EDT
The only good outcome of the Roberts decision is that we once again have our battlecry: "Repeal Obamacare"

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by occupy_cbs July 1, 2012 4:33 PM EDT
More like, " Repeal, since it's to hell with personal responsibility"!

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It's the left and the Democrats who discourage Personal Responsibility with welfare and the rest of their social dependency programs so don't you dare spout off about personal responsibility.

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Dan1718: "It will happen when the Government goes broke"


RepubsAreFiscallyLiberal: "thanks to the military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower warned of."




Yes, thanks to the bloated military-industrial complex that bush/cheney quadrupled in less than 8 years, and their signature bush tax cuts that has given us a severe revenue problem since 2001.

Too bad the republicans are no longer fiscally-responsible, since by repealing the PPACA, they will add to the deficits and debt by over $1.5 Trillion in just the first 2 decades of its implementation!