{"id":12250,"date":"2016-01-07T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2016-01-07T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:22:59","slug":"house-oks-another-waste-of-time-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12250","title":{"rendered":"House OKs another waste-of-time measure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/obamacare-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12252\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/obamacare-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"obamacare-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/obamacare-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/obamacare-1.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The House vote comes after the Senate approved the measure earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Paul Ryan blustered that the measure is going to President Obama&#8217;s desk &#8212; where it faces a certain veto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/264980-house-passes-obamacare-repeal-sending-measure-to-obamas-desk\">The president&#8217;s signature effort<\/a>\u00a0is in no danger of being overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Which begs the question: Why is Congress continuing to waste the public&#8217;s time and money on these efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I think I know.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans who control both congressional chambers want to make political hay. They want to keep hammering at a law they detest because, they say, it expands the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the ACA also does something else. It provides health insurance to roughly 17 million Americans who beforehand didn&#8217;t have it. They couldn&#8217;t afford it. They were denied medical care because they couldn&#8217;t afford to pay for it. The ACA now provides insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Repeal the law? Sure. And replace it with . . . what, exactly?<\/p>\n<p>House members and senators will get the veto that the president promises. They&#8217;ll be unable overturn the veto because Republicans lack the two-thirds majority in both houses to do it.<\/p>\n<p>So, the dance continues.<\/p>\n<p>Will someone tell the band to stop playing? Please?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The House vote comes after the Senate approved the measure earlier. Speaker Paul Ryan blustered that the measure is going to President Obama&#8217;s desk &#8212; where it faces a certain veto. The president&#8217;s signature effort\u00a0is in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House OKs another waste-of-time measure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[131,540,849,2179,3376,3524,4209],"class_list":["post-12250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-barack-obama","tag-capitol-hill","tag-house-gop","tag-obamacare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-senate-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}