The deceptively named Save American Workers Act would do the exact opposite. According to the CBO, the repugican backed change in the ACA would cause 1 million workers to lose their private health insurance.
Half of the workers impacted would not be able to get new health care
coverage so that they would have no health insurance. During the debate
on this bill, repugicans trotted out some familiar Obamacare lies.
Twelve blue-dogs joined repugicans in voting for
the bill. No repugicans voted against the bill, and three members voted
present.
Paul Ryan claimed that ACA was devised by central
planning and had a secret agenda to destroy the economy. House repugicans ignored the fact that the economy is growing at its fastest
pace in more than a decade in order to claim that the work week as
defined in the ACA is killing jobs. The repugicans tried to cover for the
fact that all of their predictions concerning the economic impact of the
ACA were wrong by suggesting that unless this bill was passed all, the
economy was going to crash and burn under the weight of the ACA.
Throughout the debate on the House floor, Democrats
tried to inject reality by pointing out to repugicans that they are
trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. There is no crushing
weight of Obamacare that is harming employees. The real goal behind this
bill is not to solve a problem, but to create a new one. The repugicans
aren’t trying to save American workers. Their mission is to weaken the
successful health care law by any means necessary.
President Obama has already threatened to veto the bill, as repugicans may have changed the bill’s name, but their goal wasting time trying to destroy Obamacare remains the same.
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