House Speaker John Boehner’s job has gotten substantially harder with the success of Obamacare enrollments and the reality that the law is here to stay. He’s got one side—business interests—wanting his help in making changes to the law that will help them and the other—Matt Drudge and the tea party—insisting that he do nothing other than repeal. It’s not working out so well.
Last week, in an unusual voice vote without debate, the House passed their “doc fix,” the must-pass legislation to make sure physicians didn’t face a 24 percent cut in reimbursements in treating Medicare patients. Tucked quietly into that bill was a provision business organizations had been pushing for that would expand coverage options for small businesses by a eliminating cap on deductibles for small group policies offered inside the law’s health care exchanges. That would allow the businesses to offer high-deductible, cheaper policies for people who also have health savings accounts. That would count, for many, as an improvement in the law. Including Matt Drudge, who had a screaming headline Monday morning: “Republicans Expand Obamacare?”
Boehner is now falling all over himself trying to insist that this isn’t an expansion, but actually a repeal.
Please read below the fold for more on this story.
Facing fire, Boehner insists his Obamacare expansion vote was really a repeal vote
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