"If you took half the states out of the individual mandate requirement, this bill falls, requiring us to draft something new, and quite frankly that is the goal," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. "To find a way to get the Congress to redo this bill.... We want this bill to come to an end."
I'm sure they'll get to jobs any week now.
Graham has teamed up with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on legislation that would allow states to opt out of the farthest-reaching provisions of health care reform: the Medicaid expansion, minimum insurance benefit standards and the individual and employer mandates. Any state that successfully opted out of any of these provisions would diminish the extent of health care coverage in their state, and throw a wrench in the machinery of the law system itself.
So no, Republicans couldn't really give a damn about Americans being in trouble, or the unemployment rate, or stagnant wages, or apparently rising health care costs, or anything else.
They want to refight the health care debate because they lost. That's all that matters to them. That's the goal, to waste as much of the next two years as possible on this petty garbage and blame Obama when nothing happens.
That's the plan for the next two years, folks: nothing. The Party of No marches on, bravely not doing a damn thing about America's problems.
HEh, of course they're resentful about lost battles a year ago. Like I said, they've not gotten over battles 50 and 150 years ago.
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