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Dent Votes to Repeal Obamacare

Charlie Dent part of House vote this week to repeal Obamacare

 

U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th, released this statement about his vote Wednesday to repeal Obamacare:

“The 2010 health care law contains numerous detrimental policies that not only fail to appropriately address the complex problems of our health care system, but hurt our economy and hardworking American families.

"Repealing the law would allow Congress to enact meaningful reform measures that reduce cost, expand access and improve quality. Its repeal would also prevent the imposition of over 20 new or higher taxes that will cost Americans $675 billion over the next decade and stifle economic growth.

"While the political reality is repeal will not occur under this Administration, which still considers the deeply flawed law its signature legislative achievement, Congress must remain committed to repealing and replacing the most problematic provisions with substantial reforms.

"I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress in a bipartisan manner to advance common sense, sustainable reforms that benefit the American people.”

Related Topics: Charlie Dent, Health Care, Health Care Reform, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, and obamacare

Jon Geeting

7:55 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

"Repealing the law would allow Congress to enact meaningful reform measures that reduce cost, expand access and improve quality."

LOL and what might these magical policies be? Where is this secret Replace plan? The fact is that Obamacare already stole all of the non-scam Republican health care policy ideas, and they have nothing left to offer.

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Crestor Januvia

11:25 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

Maybe... but after stealing those ideas, they added 100 more stupid ideas that will just lead to bankruptcy of this system like all governement run systems.... filled with lazy public employees punching the clock till their bloated pension kicks in. How about those dumb ass democrats saying is will cost 800 Billion, then CBO says, nah, make that 1.6 Trillion.... and it will double again.

charles hampton

8:40 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Dent gets my vote, NOT! The GOP has had Years to come up with a plan for much needed reform, and did nothing. The current plan definitely needs some tweaking, but it is a start.

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JJB

8:41 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Politicians like Dent have made it political with their one- sided view to scrub the entire law without offering an alternative plan..Obama addressed health care because the free market had constructed a system that allowed insurers to drop sick policy holders, to refuse coverage for preexisting conditions, and to set low lifetime benefits. That's now changed. Also, insurers must now spend 80 % of consumers' premiums on health care and not on exuberant salaries or frivolous luxuries.
Over 28,000 Americans ( not illegal aliens, not undocumented workers ) died unnecessarily last year due to poor or no health care. That is a sad statistic for a great country like the United States. What's worse is that politicians like Dent don't even care.

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Jeff

5:50 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012

This is supposed to be a free country.Our government was structured by our forefathers to defend our freedoms, NOT take care of us from cradle to grave by taking our money! If you clowns want socialized medicine and nanny government services, take it somewhere else, there's plenty of places that have the things you wish! Ya all keep talkin about Canada has this, France has this, etc. etc. then get yourself a passport and a plane ticket and go get it!

e.g.e

8:42 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

take the DENT OUT, no ideas,just take care of the rich,AND MAYBE IT WILL TRICKLE DOWN,YEA OK BEEN THERE DONE THAT..HOW IS YOUR HEALTH CARE MR.DENT?

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debra fernald

9:32 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

So typical of Charles Dent. A pretend friend of Democrats. I hope no one in his family has a pre- existing disease.

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James Feigert

11:22 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Shame on Mr Dent and all republicans. They must be so proud of themselves. The party of No. Jim Feigert

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Timothy Knerr

12:38 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Charlie Dent Is following the party line, but at least is willing to reeal and replace the bad parts. NOT the the whole thing!!! LIke many tea party turds and right wing wackos want. The 2nd last paragraph says just that.

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Marc Diamondstein

7:05 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

What did the vote accomplish other than to waste tax dollars paying these clowns for clowning around rather than performing their civic duty?

Shame!

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Eric Feinstein

9:29 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

So Charlie, you get to say "see what a good Republican I am?" Charlie no-one believes Republicans really care about reforming health care. Republicans have proven that over and over again in my lifetime. This last time was your best chance and once again you all said no to everything. You are on the wrong side Charlie!

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Rob Hamill

10:43 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Thanks Charlie, I don't want an army of IRS agents enforcing my healthcare while most doctors quit and don't even see medicare patients. The gobment has no place in my health care.

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Joe Lodics

12:53 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Tea baggers forever! yes Charly Groer Norquist is more important than your constituents

rm

12:08 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

This plan is nothing more than a recap of the Republican plan from the '80s and '90s. The problem is todays republicans do not have the same beliefs and attitudes from those years. If anything todays republicans are yesterdays dixiecrats with all the baggage that entails.

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Chris Miller

12:58 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

How about something new. We allow all the insurance companies to come into our states and Commonwealths and show us what they got. We then select a plan or put one together with the agent's help and then we pay for it. I know most of us are to dumb to figure this out so let's let Charlie and his political cronies devise a plan for all of us. It will cost a gazillion dollars and we will get to pay higher taxes and not know what is in the plan. Charlie should be replaced.

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Marguerite

5:19 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

I went shopping for my own health insurance. The best I could do was a plan that would cost me at least $700 per month (or $750 if I didn't opt for the automatic payment option) with a $2500 deductible. That is more than my mortgage. I am single and have no dependents and no pre-existing conditions. I am self-employed. I need the Affordable Care Act in order to get affordable health insurance. The Republicans have had decades to come up with a comprehensive health care reform bill and they FAILED. Why should I trust them now?

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sherry

9:10 am on Friday, July 13, 2012

Health care should be repealed and Charlie should be replaced.
Free market system works when you don't laden it with oppressive legislation.

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Pan Dora

11:18 am on Friday, July 13, 2012

Liberals are soooo predictable! They ALL want everything for free; don't want to WORK for it, OR sacrifice. Where in the constitution does it say the government should provide healthcare? Since WHEN has the government become our mothers and fathers, teachers, aunts, uncles, etc.? This is dispicable - that ANYONE would WANT to be kept like this. Can any of YOU hear yourselves. You are BEGGING for FREEBIES! Get a life, Get a job, and PAY YOUR OWN WAY! Then you can stand up and call yourself an adult.

Edward Kozelnicky

4:04 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Whenever a plan was proposed, it was immediately shot down by the Dem's because it wasn't their plan. Repub's are not going to tell what they have in mind because the liberal press get's together with the far left(most Dem's) to demagogue the issue.

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Pan Dora

4:27 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Good for Charlie Dent; Obamacare will destroy our economy. Costing TRILLIONS, Obamacare is nothing more than a farce for the democrats to get their hands on more of the taxpayer's money. Vote REPUBLICAN in Novoember, throw all the democratic cronies out!

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Frightwingslayer

4:38 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Pan Dora is crackers. What is it with you right wing crazies anyway..Obamacare will destroy our economy??? Just plain nutzo..That what these Republican Nazis said when they attacked Medicare and Social Security..Crazy, just freaking crazy..get out of the sun already, lol

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Pan Dora

11:07 am on Friday, July 13, 2012

Crackers? Crazy? Nazis? Nutzo? Right-wing crazies? Just a few of the BULLYING tactics liberals pull when they've run out of arguments for their FORCED SLAVERY ideas . There is NO way to excuse the RAPE that Obamacare implements on the American free system. Soooo, look what these self-inflated, self-serving bullies do. They regurgitate insults while attempting to intimidate at the same time. Unfortunately (for they), most thinking Americans are not even phased by such shoddy tactics. These people are totally pathetic, mainly because they support a system that leads to nothing more than slavery.

Linda

6:58 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

The children are still at play in Washington ! Tis a bloody shame that we pay them to behave so stupidly . Will Congress EVER do anything - they were elected to serve EVERY American NOT those with big rolls of money .

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Pan Dora

9:35 am on Saturday, July 14, 2012

Big rolls or small - we are ALL Americans and have the RIGHT to earn whatever we've achieved. NO ONE, not even the president should have the right to take it away! Nor, should he implement the whole basket of resentment that he and the democrats have caused. He (Obama) and the democrats have dispicably divided the country. For SHAME on ALL of them for this division - ALL TO BUY VOTES - they would sell their own mothers for a vote or to stay in power. Put all democratic politicians in a bowl and mix them up - we would NOT come up with ONE decent human being.

JJB

2:08 pm on Saturday, July 14, 2012

Every industrial democracy in the world provides healthcare for all its citizens, and they do it for less than the current high cost U.S. system. The society Pan Dora seems to desire, is one with an invisible government where citizens are in an ideal independent state, kind of like Somalia.

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Pan Dora

9:45 am on Sunday, July 15, 2012

What JJB fails to understand is the economics for this so-called socialized Healthcare - if one does their homework, and a good example is France, they will find that the French income tax is a whopping 75% percent! Yes, you're reading correct - it's 75% SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT! I wonder, does JJB want a country where a worker works their back off only to take home a mere QUARTER of what they earn. Wake-up! EVERYTHING COSTS, it is just a matter of WHAT it cost. In this case the price is FAR TOO HIGH>

JJB

12:57 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2012

It amazes me how people think " TAX " is a bad word. That is how a civilized country works.
How else would you have a strong military, keep Veterans' Hospitals open, fund the G.I. Bill, have new interstate highways, pay police and firemen, keep the Small Business Association, have FEMA for natural disasters and other programs ???
For those who want , " The Government out of our Lives ", of course, you people never used any of these government services. Right ?

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Jeff

5:40 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012

Don't stop at Obamacare, get the government and their red tape and regulations out of health insurance all together and we will see real competition and dropping rates for insurance across the nation. Allow insurance companies to offer custom tailored insurance for businesses and independent groups and watch the rates drop and drop over a few years while they all scramble for your business.

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louis kootsares

10:32 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

pan dora is correct i wish i could add to pan dora's comments, but i am happy to just read the truth as told by pan dora

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