Discussion: Hatch Promises Contingency Plans For Obamacare 'In The Coming Days'

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A contingency plan? Here’s a simple one: A bill that will strike the language in the law that is at issue and declare that the federal exchanges will be treated as state exchanges for the purpose of giving out subsidies. Problem solved.

Except this isn’t really about saving insurance for millions of Americans, it’s about an eleventh hour attempt at convincing Roberts that he won’t be robbing those millions of their insurance if he rules against the subsidies.

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We have a private faith based voucher thingy. yeah.

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Exactly, you don’t need a new plan, just rewrite the law so that it says explicitly, everywhere, what everyone decided it meant for five years: that all exchanges qualify for subsidies.

But this “contingency plan comin’ real soon now” schtick is garbage. All the yappin’ about ‘repeal and replace’ has given us hundreds of votes to repeal and zero to replace. Not to mention, Hatch can put any old thing he wants out there, but can he convince 15 other baggers not to filibuster? Can he convince enough House R’s to vote for it?

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The obvious ‘contingency plan’ doesn’t require any time to figure out, but the one he has in mind amounts to wholesale replacement of Obamacare, which they haven’t done in five years and won’t do. And if the SCOTUS scuttles Ocare, watch them turn their hypocrisy amplifiers to 11 and blame Democrats for that.

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The answer is “no” and “no”. But they will find a way to blame Obama for their inability to do anything in Congress.