Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have announced that
one of the first things that the new repugican controlled Congress
will do it take away health insurance from 1 million Americans.
In their Wall Street Journal op-ed McConnell and Boehner wrote,
We’ll also consider legislation to help protect
and expand America’s emerging energy boom and to support innovative
charter schools around the country.These bills include measures
authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will
mean lower energy costs for families and more jobs for American workers;
the Hire More Heroes Act, legislation encouraging employers to hire
more of our nation’s veterans; and a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment,
removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours
and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
A return to tradition sounds nice, until one
understands what that means. The repugicans are trying to take private
employer based health insurance away from one million Americans. House repugicans tried this same move in February 2014, and the impact on healthcare was spelled out by the CBO.
The CBO concluded,
The repugicans have mastered the art of making
legislation that would harm average Americans sound beneficial.
McConnell and Boehner aren’t going to come straight out and say that
their aim is to make sure that fewer people have health insurance, but
that is their intention.
Congressional repugicans know that they can’t
repeal the ACA, so they are going to try to chip away at the edges of
the law in order takeaway health insurance from as many people as
possible.
During his press conference President
Obama made it clear that he will veto any legislation that took health
insurance away from the American people.
It took Mitch McConnell and John Boehner
one day to show the American people what this repugican Congress will
have in store for them.
President Obama better get his veto pen warmed up, because, by the looks of things, it is going to be a very busy two years.
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