Obamacare numbers soar in New York, amid talk of federal repeal

“Any type of a meeting that we have that’s not bipartisan is not in the proper scheme of things of starting out the new year”, said Sen.

While Obama did not ask the Democrats to block all attempts to alter the law, he warned them against “rescuing” Republicans by defecting on votes that would dismantle it, the New York Times reported.

A total of 230,254 Ohioans either re-enrolled or signed up for private health coverage this year under the Affordable Care Act.

Rand Paul said Wednesday that he would not vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, known to many as Obamacare, without voting for a replacement plan on the same day.

Congressional sources say the process of crafting the reconciliation bill could take weeks, and a vote on that bill may not take place until February or later.

Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin said Obama’s message is that the individual parts of the law are popular, and that repealing it would affect all Americans.

He said he is proud of the progress made by the ACA, such as growth in health insurance coverage, improved consumer protections for people with employer-based coverage and development of value-based payment systems for providers. They have to show us what their alternative is, and there’s a small chance maybe it’s a good plan.

“Make no mistake about it”, Mr Pence told reporters, “We’re going to keep our promise to the American people”.

“It is time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works – much less expensive & FAR BETTER!” he said on Twitter, but so far he has proposed no actual new policy.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence, after separately meeting with Republicans who control both the House and Senate, said on Wednesday repealing the 2010 law was the “first order of business” of the Trump administration.

The Republicans’ majority in the Senate is tenuous, and any shifts not in their favor in the 2018 midterms would effectively neutralize President Trump and the GOP agenda. The party used a procedural approach that would allow them to repeal major parts of Obamacare thereby prohibiting Democrats to mount a filibuster in the Senate. He’s the Republican’s top guy and even he can’t give us details on this replacement. “It’s not obvious there’s a mandate for repealing the ACA without putting a replacement plan on the table”.

GOP lawmakers have put in motion the first steps of repealing Obamacare, though there are many question as to what the repeal bill actually look like, let alone the law’s eventual replacement. Republican leaders have said they may pursue a “repeal and delay”, in which repeal is passed in January but only takes effect in one or several years.

The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare without a replacement in mind may be starting to fall apart.

“We don’t want people to be caught with nothing”, Pence explained.