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Repeal This?

by: Mike Hoefer

Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 15:49:34 PM EDT
Kelly Ayotte (R- K. Street),  12 year Congressmen Charlie Bass, and $250k Frank have all vowed to work to repeal or "repeal and replace" the historic health care reform passed early this year.

I'm not sure how popular that is going to be with stories like this coming out...

O'Brien, 52, and her husband, Matt, 55, had been uninsured for years.

"The first thing that was on my mind wasn't, 'Oh my God, I have cancer,' " Gail O'Brien said in an interview Monday. "My first thought was, 'Oh my God, how am I going to pay for it?' "

The Keene couple's jobs - she's a preschool teacher and he works part time for the city - didn't offer insurance.

It was only after O'Brien found out that the new health care reform law includes a provision allowing her to buy into a high-risk insurance pool that she knew her illness wouldn't bankrupt her family.

Please don't run on repealing "Obamacare" Kelly, Charlie, and Frank. Really whatever you do, I mean it please, don't.*

* See Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby if the snark is a bit too thick.
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My Favorite Charlie Bass Quote - Health Care (4.00 / 2)
Charlie has had some whoppers over the years.  But, in my humble estimation, nothing quite tops his perspective on the Patients' Bill of Rights.

As many of you will recall, this initiative would have given patients the right to hold HMOs accountable for abuses and mistreatment. John McCain was one of its leading advocates.  But ol' Charlie voted against the Patients' Bill of Rights over and over again.  When his Democratic opponent, Mary Rauh, called him on it in the middle of their 1998 WMUR debate, the Bassmaster replied:

"The big problem with the bill you support is that it requires insurance companies to cover any procedure that is medically necessary."

Yes, my friends.  That was not a typo.

Charlie Bass just doesn't get it.

Repeal and replace - with what? (0.00 / 0)
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no credible Republican plan to help the 50+ million uninsured people in this country.
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