Repeal Health Care Reform, Stop Government and Turn control over to Business. Republicans tip hand on agenda.

American have a lot to lose when it comes to repealing health care reform; the industry is now changing to better outcomes and lower costs, the uninsured are covered including college students, preexisting conditions return, rates will go up, 90,000 people will die due to lack of coverage, 18,000 preventable deaths will accure and Americans will be free at last from Obama the oppressor.

"The endgame is a fight over funding," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Faced with an opposition Congress "defunding" his health care plan, would Obama make a stand? Would he risk shutting down the Health and Human Services department, the IRS, or perhaps even the whole government?

"At that point, does he let everything else go?" asked former Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican elected in the GOP wave of 1994. "The game will be, does he shut the government down? Republicans can say, 'We gave him the money to fund other programs.'"

America Speaking Out, a website sponsored by the House GOP. They didn't mince words: "Obamacare will have dire consequences for our nation," Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, warned in a video on the site. "President Obama dismantled the finest medical system in the world and replaced it with a failed socialist model. The president nationalized your skin and everything inside it, and he enlarged the scope of the IRS by granting the agency the power to confiscate the assets of American who refuse to submit to the nanny state."

Of course telling the truth to Americans doesn’t serve their interests, so instead, lie like hell.

Nothing of the sort, say health care law backers. The law's requirement that most Americans carry insurance comes from a Republican proposal in the 1990s health care debate. Congress rejected a Medicare-like government option for all Americans that was the top priority for the political left. Most Americans will still have private insurance ten years from now. Republicans would face tricky political and policy challenges:

Would they allow insurance companies to again deny coverage to children with medical problems? The new law prohibits that.

How would the GOP make up billions in lost federal revenue, since the Congressional Budget Office has ruled that the law reduces the deficit?

Would Republicans bring back the coverage gap in the Medicare prescription drug benefit? The law gradually closes it.

"The pain that a family feels when their sick child is denied health care is real," said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "The threat by Republicans to take away patients' rights and put insurance companies back in control just demonstrates the GOP's commitment to the special interests."

Consider too how many Republican governors took credit for the money their states received from health care reform. Rachel Maddow explains:



Despite the common sense and logic of not stopping reform, Republicans are now extremists, and will do anything. I know they will. Thank you voters...I mean, suckers.

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