House GOP moves against health care law

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are launching a new attack on the president’s health care law, just days after the law beat expectations by signing up more than 7 million Americans.

The House GOP scheduled a vote Thursday to change the law’s definition of full-time work from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week. The result would be that fewer workers would get employer-sponsored health coverage.

Republicans say the change would give relief to businesses that have to cover full-time workers or pay a fine. They seized on a recent report saying the law will lead workers to cut their hours or leave the workforce. Democrats say “Obamacare” is starting to work.

The vote offers an early test of whether the law’s sign-up success will strengthen Democratic unity.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/03/house_gop_moves_against_health_care_law/

[stopbush]

1. More feckless grandstanding by the Rs. It will never even come up in the Senate.

How is this even a story?

[kardonb]

37. feckless

they sure seem to enjoy banging their useless heads against an immovable brick wall , don't they !

[chuckstevens]

2. Keep Voting Republican Folks!

They have all he solutions to your problems, don't they?

[bitchkitty]

3. Teh stupid endures. n/t

[underpants]

4. They need to change the party logo to a leprechaun riding a unicorn

They are out of their minds

[Iliyah]

5. Still no jobs plan huh. Constant destroying the American dream.

Assholes are us = GOP.

[Plucketeer]

6. These SCUM make Ogres look downright angelic! nt

[christx30]

7. Maybe they can do it this time!

The 43rd time's the charm!

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Bastards!

That is all. Just bastards!

[riqster]

9. And if we sit back and let them have the Senate...

A strong argument for GOTV in 2014.

[lastlib]

10. AMEN!!

[font size=10]A-[/font size]f*cking[font size=10]-MEN!!![/font size]

VOTE, people, for Chrissakes!!

[lostincalifornia]

15. what do you mean we? At least 10 million people who didn't have insurance before and now have it,

should be out there voting. The very concept of women's rights are being attacked, and they should be out there voting. The views that the republican party has demonstrated just how racist they are, and they should be out there voting. The destruction of Social Security and Medicare by the republicans should scare the heck out of seniors, and they should be out there voting.

The republicans have alienated so many groups. I do not agree with the assessment of the media pundits. They have been proven wrong time and time again, and I believe we will retain control of the Senate.

As long as we GOTV we will win

[riqster]

18. I agree with you 100%.

But there are those on DU and elsewhere who advocate sitting out the election, because our candidates aren't to their liking. I'm arguing with some of them right now on other threads, in fact.

We cannot assume that every person who should vote Dem will do so: we need to register them, get them to the polls, fight the Repub voter suppression laws, and yes, fight those among our own people who seek to suppress the vote as well.

GOTFV!

[lostincalifornia]

26. Absolutely. That is exactly what happened in 2000, and we had 8 years of bush which gave us the SC

we have today, and so many other problems.

It was less the SC decision that determined the election of 2000, and more of "just enough" people who thought it didn't matter if they sat out the election or voted third party.

[riqster]

32. S'truth. Margin matters.

A slim margin of victory enables rigging and theft, as we saw in 2000 and 2004. Larger margins like we had in 2008 and 2012 make it too risky for the Repubes to steal an election.

Turnout is the single biggest task for us this year.

GOTFV!

[groundloop]

31. Exactly!!! IMO Idealism is for Primaries, General Elections require Pragmatism

NO CANDIDATE ON EARTH is gonna' perfectly align themselves with someone's view 100% of the time. I feel that many Democrats / Progressives are younger and haven't learned that lesson yet.

[Stuart G]

35. I too think we will retain control of the Senate

Besides, this is April, not September or October...eh???

[lostincalifornia]

38. 7 months is a lifetime in politics. You are right

[Progressive dog]

16. Yes

[SansACause]

11. They continue to lie.

The people who were leaving the workforce are those that wanted to retire or do something else but couldn't because they couldn't afford health insurance without getting it through their employer. Now they can. It was very clear in the report, but now the Republicans are just lying and saying these people are leaving because their jobs are being eliminated due to Obamacare.

[groundloop]

34. Good point.... Hell, I might retire early if I can afford health insurance

If I could afford to I'd retire tomorrow so that I can enjoy a few years of sitting on a boat fishing while my health is still relatively good. Unfortunately I still have kids to help get through college and a not so impressive 401K, along with the obvious need for health insurance. The Affordable Care Act will certainly help (so long as we don't let GOPers dismantle the progress which has been made), but of course I'd love to see some form of Single Payer.

[HockeyMom]

12. Back in the 1960's

when I first started working in the corporate world, the work week was 35 hours for full time. If I worked over those 35 hours, I got OT as an Admin. Asst. My pay was based on a weekly, not hourly basis. It was extremely difficult then to even find part-time work. Buisnesses back in the 80s decided it was cheaper to pay two part-timers, without benefits, than a full time person. No, jobs going part-time now is nothing new.

So, so much has changed, and not for the better lately.

[lostincalifornia]

13. another waste of time by the crazies. It will get vetoed as it should

[onehandle]

14. Well, we do have a black President.

Nothing else they could do.

[Stellar]

17. Why don't republicans want Americans to have healthcare?

What good reason are you gonna tell the people in November, 2014.

[liberal N proud]

19. What was the President was questioning? “Why are folks working so hard for people not to have ...

“Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance? Why are they so mad about the idea of folks having health insurance?”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/obamacare-enrollment-deadline-special-enrollment-105239_Page2.html#ixzz2xqLW09sI

These people resemble that remark.

[geretogo]

20. The GOP is a party of evil doers .

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. "the law will lead workers to cut their hours"

What universe do these people live in?

In this day and age, what worker would cut his income by 25% by reducing his hours from 40 to 30 hours, just because he could be covered either way? Not to mention an employee doesn't really have the power to dictate to his/her employer how many hours he is needed to that business.

Unbelievable.

[kelliekat44]

22. I want to see ads on this all over the place. "This is what you get with a GOP controlled Congress"

Surely there needs to be a rapid response to this and people need to know who is on their side and who is not.

[DallasNE]

23. Is This Called The Walmart Amendment?

Nobody would benefit more by this change than Walmart -- a company that already pays such low wages that its full time workers qualify for food stamps. Now they want government subsidies to help their employees purchase health insurance from the Marketplace so they can avoid being a good corporate citizen as ACA would require.

[dickthegrouch]

24. Recruits to the armed forces pledge

to protect the United States against all enemies, domestic and foreign.

Why are they not protecting us against the GOP?

[SoapBox]

25. Fuck these assholes!

Fuckers...give it a rest!!

[3catwoman3]

29. They certainly are...

...relentless and tireless, in addition to being fuckers.

[Historic NY]

27. County employees here had paid lunch and breaks cut out reducing

their hours salaries to under 40...

[mindwalker_i]

28. Interpretation: "This law is hurting our changes of re-election"

"We don't give a flying fuck whether it works and actually helps people."

That's kind of true for everything the GOP does.

[Doctor_J]

30. Where is the pushback from the Dems?

Where are the preemptive veto threats, the declaration by Reid that this is DOA in the Senate, that press releases that say, "the Republican governors are already killing 17,000 people per year with their resistance isn't that enough for them?"

Fight, for chrissakes

[rurallib]

33. Time for Sanders to introduce his "Medicare for all bill"

What am I thinking - no "Democrat" would vote for it.

[bl968]

36. Fight back

Democrats should offer an amendment changing the definition from 30 hours to 20 hours.