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March 26, 2015 06:30 AM UTC

Gardner promise: Obamacare replacement will be "ready to go"

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Sen. Cory Gardner (R).
Sen. Cory Gardner (R).

The Hill’s Sarah Ferris reported today that Obama is mocking Republicans for claiming to have an alternative to Obamacare, when they obviously don’t.

Five years after the passage of his signature healthcare law, President Obama took a jab at the Republican Party for still lacking its own plan to replace it.

“We have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case,” Obama said at a White House event marking the healthcare law’s progress. “Death panels. Doom. A serious alternative from Republicans in Congress.”

Colorado’s Sen. Cory Gardner is one of the Republicans whom Obama is mocking. Asked if Republicans would have a plan ready if the Supreme Court rules against the health care law in King v. Burwell, Gaardner said on Fox News Wednesday (at 2:30):

“I think the Republicans not only will have a plan but something the President will accept, because it’s something we have to do,” said Gardner, citing the efforts of GOP Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, and Nebraska’s Benjamin Sass.

“Republican’s will have a plan in place if the ruling is for the plaintiffs. Our plan will be ready to go,” Gardner said.

The replacement will be ready to go? If that’s true, why has it taken so long? And why wait for the Supreme Court’s decision? Gardner has been voting for the repeal Obamacare for years.

He even advocated for the government shutdown, in an effort to defund the health care program.

So Reporters should hold Gardner to his latest Obamacare-replacement promise, even if the justices uphold the health-care law. It will be ready do go, Gardner promised, so I’d think reporters would be looking forward to seeing it, one way or the other.

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18 thoughts on “Gardner promise: Obamacare replacement will be “ready to go””

    1. We have welcomed the Obamacare with bullets and shoes.  We are surrounding it and pounding it.  After we finish defeating all of the Obamacare, we will disclose our new plan with facts and figures.

    2. Orwell knew him before he occupied his mother’s womb…

      “ To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink. ”

      “ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”

      1. While Orwell may have been wrong about the future on a number of points, he sure got the 21st century GOP spin machine down to a tee. This is what they do all the time. The Etch-a-Sketch should be their sacred symbol.

  2. The FOX reporter failed to ask Mr. Gardner the obvious questions.  Since Mr. Gardner insists the Republicans have a plan to replace Obamacare in the event the U.S. Supreme Court rules the subsidies don’t apply to states that utilize the federal exchange – what is the plan? Everyone knows two facts:  (1) the decision from the Court will be issued in a few months and (2) the issue the Court is deciding is clear and unambiguous, so what is the Republican plan?

    Mr. Gardner emphatically states that the Republicans “will have a plan ready to go.”  Legislation for something like this isn’t written in a few minutes and the senator said two Republican senators who are doctors have been working on the plan.  Well then, what are the basic principles of the Republican plan?  Mr. Gardner is so sure there is one and he said its something the Senate will have to do, so what is it?

    1. We are left with this.  On the one hand Mr. Gardner enthusiastically supports the repeal of Obamacare through the Republican budget announced several days ago while simultaneously stating the he supports a federal law that will make sure those people who will loose their coverage if the Supreme Court rules for the plaintiffs will have health insurance.  So he’s really concerned about those people who will loose their coverage but he can’t tell us what the plan is.  The press needs to ask him some specific questions and demand specific answers.

        1. I  thought the dog ate it just before he rushed off to DC to save us during the 2008 campaign and then had absolutely nothing to contribute. You know. Because the dog ate it?

          1. Let’s take Mr. Garner’s recitations of the facts at face value. Like all the opponents of Obamacare he asserts that the law has caused millions to lose their health insurance, that Obamacare has drastically increased health insurance premiums, and it has drastically increased the cost of medical care. Let’s assume those assertions are true for purposes of our discussion.

            At the same time, Mr. Gardner asserts he’s deeply concerned for those who have lost their insurance and the incredible increase in premiums and costs; but most important of all he said the Republicans have a plan to insure those people can have affordable healthcare insurance. He’s made a commitment to those people who will loose their health insurance if the Supreme Court rules against those states on the federal exchange and those who will loose it if Obamacare is repealed. And his commitment is the federal government will substitute a different policy to insure people have health insurance. So I wonder what that policy might be. I believe he has the duty and responsibility to let us know exactly what he supports. More specifically, he must tell us how his alternative will insure that medical cost will increase at less than 4% annually, the present rate (they were rising at 16% each year before Obamacare) and what the premiums will be for individual policy holders under the new Republican plan and will he admit that if Obamacare was repealed then those 16 million people who have coverage under Obamacare will have suffered a cancellation of their policies at the hands of the Republicans. He said the Republicans have a plan. Let’s take him at his word. I’m sure he has the answers for those 16 million Americans.

            1. Soooo, you’re thinking that Gardner’s plan is for expanding Medicare to make it a universal single-payer system?!?   Damn, this guy’s a tremendous improvement over Udall!

              1. No not really. I think if the truth be known, Mr. Gardner isn’t very concerned at all about whether people have health insurance and he doesn’t have a clue how they are going to get insurance if Obamacare is repealed or the Supreme Court holds the subsidies don’t apply to states on the federal exchange system but he has tripped himself up this time. He has stated the Republicans have a plan to take care of those Americans who loose their health insurance. That can only mean there is a plan and he is for it which means he is for federal government intervention in the area of health insurance policy. Since he is in favor of such action and he says there is a plan then he can certainly share with us what that plan is.

                If it turns out there isn’t a plan and he isn’t in favor of one, he will have hoisted himself by his own petard.  Mr. Gardner is very poised and a good speaker but when you break down what he says, he is vacuous. There no there there.  He’s concerned about everything but he isn’t really for anything.

  5. These people have absolute squat for credibility. For five, count ’em, five years now, they have said “Repeal and Replace” like a parrot with OCD. We’ve seen the “repeal” part of that 56 (or is it 57?) times to date but not one of these clowns has given even a general description of what “replace” consists of.

  6. Not directly related to Obamacare but since the Thursday Open thread is not available, I’ll post here.

    The US House passed the Medicare funding bill with only 37 “nay” votes; almost as impressive as Pelosi and Boner negotiating the bill’s contents! Also amazing is that fact that Doug Lamborn, the Centennial State’s perennial embarrassment, was not one of the 37 “nay” votes.

    But Ken Buck was.  I guess Buck is so out there that at times he even makes Lamborn look sane.  

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