◼ With Republicans set to take over control of the Senate in January, there is renewed talk of their plans to fight President Obama’s healthcare law. - Philip Klein/Washington Examiner @philipklein
Given that Obama will be wielding a veto pen next year, the focus has shifted to whether Republicans could roll back pieces of the law — maybe even with bipartisan support.
In an editorial for its Nov. 23 print edition, the New York Times slammed the idea of repealing the medical device tax, the employer mandates, the insurer bailout, and the individual mandate.
Much of the editorial was misguided, but to the extent that it did raise legitimate points about the consequences of repealing certain measures in isolation, that only reaffirmed the case for fully repealing the law....
The overarching point of the editorial is that if certain burdensome provisions of Obamacare are repealed, negative consequences would result. But those consequences wouldn’t exist in the first place were it not for Obamacare — which is a pretty good argument for repealing the whole darn thing.... KEEP READING
