Mark Levin noted, during his radio show last week, an article from the The New England Journal of Medicine which lays out how ObamaCare can be dismantled after the victory of Conservatives last Tuesday: (h/t Dave Ross)
[audio:https://floppingaces.net/Audio/levinobamacare110310.mp3]A more serious possibility [than repeal] is that ACA opponents could deliver on another pledge: to cut off funding for implementation. Here is how such a process could work
~~~The ACA contains 64 specific authorizations to spend up to $105.6 billion and 51 general authorizations to spend “such sums as are necessary” over the period between 2010 and 2019. None of these funds will flow, however, unless Congress enacts specific appropriation bills. In addition, section 1005 of the ACA appropriated $1 billion to support the cost of implementation in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…. [and the] ACA appropriated nothing for the Internal Revenue Service, which must collect the information needed to compute subsidies and pay them. The ACA also provides unlimited funding for grants to states to support the creation of health insurance exchanges (section 1311). But states will also incur substantially increased administrative costs to enroll millions of newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries…
Without large additional appropriations, implementation will be crippled.~~~Since most major provisions of the ACA do not take effect until January 1, 2014, [these] delaying tactics might eventually enable repeal
Check out the whole PDF on Levin’s facebook page here.
Probably 25% of the new House members were elected because they promised to throw ObamaCare out the window. The rest of the members can see the writing on the wall. Either follow suit with your promises or be thrown out yourself. Get a repeal motion through so those who oppose repeal are on record with their votes then go through the process of defunding it, as the author of the above article so helpfully lays out.
There is more to be done on top of ObamaCare. Just yesterday Senator-Elect Marco Rubio gave an address laying out the priorities of our new Congress. Specifically to reduce the debt, repeal and replace ObamaCare, prevent the Obama tax increases that are looming, be bold and put forth alternatives to the Obama policies coming out of Washington and then fight for them.
The newest members of the House and Senate will be held accountable. Either do what you promised to do or you’re gone. As it should be.
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