Health Care: Can it Still Be Defeated?
With the bi-annual elections removing the current party as a show of distaste with Washington, we can expect that not very much will ever get done. The new House Majority are talking of ways to continue to obstruct with the strategy of unseating the current president as the mission of the new majority.
So how can a bill that was seen as such a necessity just a few short years ago now be on the back burner waiting to be thrown out as bad soup? Well, from reading many articles since the recent election, I don't think that the new majority will attack the Health Bill directly.
Tony Pugh, who writes for Truth-Out configures it this way:
"...with many of the law's provisions years away from implementation, the GOP can use its new House majority to slow the measure's funding and progress through a gantlet of congressional hearings, investigations, aggressive oversight and legislative delays. A conservative commentator called the guerrilla warfare-like tactic 'defund, delay and debunk.'"
The law as it stands now is not an appropriated bill. That means that it lacks funding and on a provision by provision basis, it may be possible to defeat, not the entirely of the bill, but simple provisions that one at a time can be debunked. The majority in the house will characterize this as a savings in the gross domestic budget. It will be seen as a way to cut the deficit and the save the economy.
This plan will work to save Wall Street and it actually may reflect a significant rise in the Dow, slowly climbing the stock exchange back to close to where we were before the depression.
What it will not arrest is the growing gap between the rich and the poor and a continued 9.5% unemployment. The number of unemployed and uninsured will continue to rise while the economy will grow for the wealthier elements of our society.
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