Wasn’t This the Reason for ObamaCare?

The White House is threatening to veto a Republican bill that would shore up one part of President Barack Obama’s health care law by siphoning funds from another part. The House bill would add billions to a temporary program to help uninsured people with pre-existing medical problems. Obama’s health care law requires companies to cover those people, but that provision doesn’t kick in until Jan. 1. The cash-strapped program has stopped taking new applicants to ensure it doesn’t run out of money. (The Associated Press/Washington Post)

Is the president abandoning the whole reason for health reform?

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  1. Gabriel Odom says:

    I’m 25 years old, and I already want to give up. Some days, I feel as if the sheer volume of Washington’s ineptitude will crush me.

  2. Anthony says:

    Interesting and quite concerning. Not knowing the true motives and details behind it all, if all of this is true, I am quite concerned about the future.

  3. Timothy says:

    Just seems like almost every day I end up reading more alarming notes about this health care overhaul.

  4. Amy says:

    My warning to all Americans: start taking better care of your health because there is no scenario where it will get cheaper given Obamacare.

  5. Jack says:

    I share Gabriel’s concerns. It’s uncanny. In a letter to Cornyn I wrote that that I was being “buried under the inadequacies of his representation,” or some such nonsense.

  6. Harley says:

    So we have incompliant states and a system which is only able to enroll a fraction of possible applicants. Great. Three guesses about who will actually get coverage.

  7. John Goodman says:

    Obviously, not all Democrats agree with the president: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2013/April/24/harkin-hold-on-tavenner.aspx