McConnell: Health Care Repeal Pledge?

This Week with Jake Trapper is every bit as left wing as with George.Congrats.

Jake, that wasn’t a yes. The Republicans will not campaign on repealing the health care bill, it is too popular with their base, the insurance companies. (which gave over a half million to McConnell in the last cycle, by the way)
No, for the purpose of the election, they will adopt the left critique, that it costs too much and still doesn’t cover everyone. That it has an individual mandate but doesn’t provide the means to buy the insurance.
Should they win, there will be no effort to repeal.
The only way the Republicans win nowadays is if the progressives punish the Democrats by staying away from the polls. Otherwise, the Republicans are irrelevant.

Jake, you were great. Hope ABC puts you on more often. Better yet, hope they put you there for good…

I believe you didn’t get a straight answer because the Republicans want to use it as a reelection campaign issue, but in the end will take no definitive action to repeal this, if it passes.
I’d like to think that they will stand up for Americans and our Constitution and repeal this. That’s why it’s important to boot everyone out of office who truly doesn’t want to uphold our Constitution and freedoms and replace them with representatives accountable to the people.

Did it occur to any of you that McConnell is hesitant to broadcast election strategy on national tv? In addition any new Senate majority might leave Mr. “My Good Buddy Harry” McConnell out of the leadership. The new class will be far more conservative, and far less willing to get along after having had their faces rubbed in every piece of Dem crap for 2 years and then told THEY weren’t being bipartisan because they didn’t roll over and go along.

It is hard to believe that McConnell would expect Americans to believe the Repubs want health care reform when they have fought it so steadily the past five decades. I’m old enough to remember what they did to prevent health care reform in Clinton’s 8 years, how they blocked it in Bush’s administration, too, as well as the most recent efforts in the House and Senate.
We all need to remember the legislation isn’t so much health care reform, but mainly health insurance reform. The House bill will limit the over-reaching greed and malicious behavior of the health insurance companies while protecting the American consumers. Anyone fighting these commonsense reforms, like not allowing pre-conditions to disqualify people from obtaining insurance, is obviously in the pockets of the health insurance industry.

Wake up folks, this isn’t Healthcare reform in order to lower costs and insure more people. It is a power grab by Leftist in DC led by Barry Obama. It is that simple. Do you honestly think anyone in the Senate or House has actually read a 2000 page bill???????? You better pray the GOP takes back the Congress and sticks this HC bill in the garbage where is belongs.

It is a power grab by Leftist in DC led by Barry Obama. It is that simple.
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You mean those ‘lefist’ socialists who are in the pocket of wall street, the health insurance industry, community groups, the poor, the big banks, the auto industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the Zoranians and . . ..

One of the truly odius provisions of this bill is the 5% pay cut physicians will suffer if their “spending” per patient (tests, meds, therapy, etc.) exceeds 90% of the national average. Think about that. Your physician will be highly incentivized to deny you care. THAT’s how the cost curve will be “bent down” and there’s your Death Panel. (Thanks, ‘Cuda!)

The current Health Care Reform doesn’t eliminate the middle man, it replaces it with another. The new middle-man speaks with a voice of power, a voice that cannot be avoided.
The leftist’s favorite attack when they are taking by force the freedoms of others is that the ‘others’ just wouldn’t work with us. All the leftists want is your freedom, your decision making power and control over your life. What’s not to like about that?

Obamacare isn’t a health care reform bill.It’s merely a bill designed to kill off private sector insurance companies.
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Isn’t that ironic. Many of the posters on here have called it a sell-out to the insurance companies.

All the leftists want is your freedom, your decision making power and control over your life.
Posted by: Matt
wonder why the ‘rightists’ were always so incensed about war protestors like during Viet Nam and Iraq invasion, aren’t they talking about taking away freedoms? let alone the National Guard killing students on campus at Kent State,
‘rightists’ seem always to be making the point that improving things for more people is akin
to taking away ‘decision making power and control over your life’ .. but they
ignore rightwing repression.. during the 2008 Republican Convention the police launched pre-emptive strikes against peaceful protesters, arrested people on the streets for no reason……. where were you with your declaration of people’s right back then?

Sure health care ‘reform’ will be a potent GOP political issue. All of the taxes are up front, and the benefits – if we ever see them – are years away. The financial costs will, of course, be more than they, or the CBO, predict. This is always the case. Any homeowner who has hired folks for a home remodeling job, knows that the job description and the costs invariably increase.

Jake,
Great job in asking Senator McConnell to answer the question of whether repeal of the Heath Care Bill would be one of the first items on the agenda of a potential Republian majority in 2011.
To often politicians dodge questions, as he did in this case, and pressing them to answer the question is exactly what a good journalist should do.
Sadly, you let him off the hook at the end. Your interpretion of his silence as agreement to make a repeal a priority served the Senator’s purposes. The right-wing could say he agreed to make it a priority, while he can say he never said so.
Had you interpreted his refusal to answer as meaning that he would NOT make repeal a priority (an equally valid assumption, given his non-answer), then you would have placed him in a much more difficult position. In this situation, had he remained silent, his base would have been livid.
Always remember, if you don’t get an answer, assume the answer is at odds the person’s base. You just might leverage the truth from them after all.

NO healthcare bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!