State GOP Wary as Republicans Push Repeal of Health Law

[Jimbo101]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/state-gop-wary-republicans-push-repeal-health-law-44646422

Congressional Republicans' drive to repeal the 2010 health care law has financial and political repercussions for GOP leaders in the states and gives Democrats potential openings as they struggle to reclaim power lost during President Barack Obama's tenure.

Some Republican governors, in particular, are wary about what their Washington colleagues might do with Obama's signature law, exposing a fissure in a party that has consolidated control in the nation's capital and dozens of statehouses around the country in accompaniment with President-elect Donald Trump's victory in November.

"I think they talk a lot about repeal. I haven't heard a lot about replace," Ohio's GOP Gov. John Kasich said last week in Cleveland, as he warned against making fast, sweeping changes. "The fact of the matter is we have a lot more people covered." He asked "what happens to these people" in the event of a full repeal.

Democrats, meanwhile, bemoan the possibility of stripping insurance from some 20 million Americans who lacked it before the law was passed in 2010. But they also see a political opportunity after six years of being blamed by Republicans — and often by voters — for every insurance premium or deductible increase, coverage denial or long wait for a specialist.

"You bought it, you own it," said pollster Paul Maslin of Wisconsin, who has worked for federal and state Democratic campaigns around the country.

(below is a link to another story that I posted previously about ACA repeal) - "Obamacare repeal's doomsday scenario"

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/obamacare-repeal-doomsday-233335

[SHRED]

1. They should be nervous

Thank goodness I live in budget-surplus California.
Hopefully our State can set up an alternative to Trumpcare.

[Jake Stern]

2. I predict this is going to be smoke and mirrors.

They'll make some cosmetic changes to toss a bone to the Baggers. Then they'll simply change a few words, paste a new label on it and Trump will sell it to the public as his so called better and cheaper plan with the lapdog media and his deplorables smugly pointing out how the new plan is so much better than Obamacare.

Very similar to what they do when they "cut taxes" by changing it from a tax to a "user fee".