Republican leader links health reform delay to U.S. debt increase

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

House Republican leaders on Tuesday floated their strategy for thwarting "Obamacare" health reforms in autumn fiscal debates.

They plan to try to link a one-year delay in funding Obamacare with a deal on raising the debt limit, while seeking to deny implementation money for Obamacare in a stop-gap government funding measure.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting that delaying all or part of Obamacare would be a key goal in the debt limit debate, party aides said.

Cantor is planning to hold a House vote later this week on his plan to deny funds to the health care law while extending government spending authority, but Republican conservatives say that the measure will likely prove ineffective.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/10/us-usa-fiscal-debtlimit-idUSBRE98918R20130910

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See also:
Think Progress, "Republicans Threaten To Push Nation Into Default Unless Obama Agrees To Delay Obamacare For One Year"
MSNBC, "House GOP wants to tie Obamacare to debt ceiling debate"
McClatchy, "Little room to move on debt default debate"

[wildbilln864]

1. so what is this U.S. debt and

who do we owe?

[Paulie]

9. Mostly ourselves

Out of ~$16 Trillion, Federal Reserve and Gov own about 6T (should include the bonds held for Social Security...), 6T foreign, the rest is privately held. See the word doc here: http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/index.html

[Cryptoad]

2. Ahh,,,,,, now back to fighting our "Real" Enemy !

The GOP!

Are these idiots serious...????

[another_liberal]

3. It's their last hope for something to run on next year.

They're getting pretty desperate too.

[Cryptoad]

4. Yes

they know that as ACA rolls out more and more people are going to like it and that all lies about ACA will be exposed!

[yeoman6987]

10. Election 2014

You think they are desperate? I think they are arrogant and think they are going to gain seats in the House and win the Senate. Of course they thought the same thing in 2012 so as long as people get out the vote in an off year election (not President), we should be ok. Hopefully Colorado is not an example of what will happen next year and people stay home. I just hope that people take 2014 as serious as 2012.

[Snake Plissken]

5. One thing I could never understand is why police try to stop mass-murders from attempting suicide

It never made any sense to me, the same goes for the GOP why does someone always try to stop them from committing suicide, just let them get it over with and commit suicide already, then this country can start moving forward again.

Why even attempt to entertain their nonsense, when they put the gun to their head let them pull the trigger. If you want to intervene, then grab the gun just to make sure it's loaded then hand it back to them

[4dsc]

6. GFY GOP

that is all.

[Zorro]

7. Hey Republicans! OBEY THE LAW!

[Blue Idaho]

8. Because this worked so well last time?

Insanity = doing the same thing and expecting different results. Cantor and the rest of the rocket surgeons in the TeaPublican brain trust still don't understand that Americans know they are the cause of America's eroding credit rating.

What idiots.