House GOP are quietly expanding Obamacare in the name of 'repeal'

As I'm sure you're aware, Obama and Holder have been up to plenty o' corruption and deceit this week. But then again, sadly that's a daily occurrence with the nation's top Democrats. Just as reflective of their corrupt and deceitful nature is the namesake health care act that's become synonymous with this regime's treatment of the citizenry. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones perpetrating and expanding such power grabs. Over the past week, GOP leaders have been up to similar deception in the name of so-called 'repeal', which is looking more like an embrace to most free-thinking, conservative countrymen who aren't beholden to the party...

AP: At the prodding of business organizations, House Republicans quietly secured a recent change in President Barack Obama's health law to expand coverage choices, a striking, one-of-a-kind departure from dozens of high-decibel attempts to repeal or dismember it.

Democrats describe the change involving small-business coverage options as a straightforward improvement of the type they are eager to make, and Obama signed it into law. Republicans are loath to agree, given the strong sentiment among the rank and file that the only fix the law deserves is a burial.

No member of the House GOP leadership has publicly hailed the fix, which was tucked, at Republicans' request, into legislation preventing a cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

It is unclear how many members of the House rank and file knew of it because the legislation was passed by a highly unusual voice vote without debate.

Several lobbyists and Republican aides who monitored the issue said the provision reflects a calculation that no matter how hard the party tries, the earliest the law can be repealed is after Obama leaves office in 2017. In the meantime, according to this line of thinking, small-business owners need all the flexibility they can get to comply with it.

So do nothing, but comply, until Obama's out? And what happens when the Republican's winning strategy fails them, and they lose the White House again? At some point, you turn to Principle that reveals the wrongheadedness of such intrusively unconstitutional legislation and you fight against it! But not these so-called leaders. And when someone within the niche of right-leaning media calls them on it, they take the defensive stance and attack their own...

Mediaite: The right-leaning news aggregation service Drudge Report accused the House Republicans and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Sunday of quietly expanding the Affordable Care Act. That headline, with the power to inflame the Republican base against the House GOP, prompted Boehner to reach out and correct the record. He said that he and his colleagues did not expand the law, but actually repealed a portion of it.

Boehner said that he and his colleagues fulfilled a promise this weekend to ‘chip away another piece” of the ACA. An aide for Boehner said that this latest move is just “one part of Republicans’ larger effort to repeal the full law and replace it with better solutions.”

See, Boehner, along with the rest of the GOP establishment leadership and operatives, would like us to believe that working with the law and making 'fixes' is somehow repealing a law that continues to devastate health care in America. They're not fooling this conservative...and Drudge was right to call them out, because the consequences reach further than simply going along... 

NewRepublic: But Drudge has a point, too. The change will make expanding coverage under Obamacare marginally easier. And to the extent that it helps small business owners, it weakens the already splintering coalition of interest groups and movement leaders who support repealing the law in its entirety.

Indeed, now that Obamacare has taken root we're seeing the green shoots of conservative acquiescence cropping up all around it. A full month ago, the House passed three minor ACA tweaks—to address the concerns of Christian Scientists, volunteer firefighters, and companies that employ veterans (who are already provided health coverage by the government).

Correction, Republican acquiescence...continued...

At around the same time, 18 House Republicans broke a silent embargo against the law by signing on to a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to make minor improvements to Healthcare.gov in the interest of easing enrollment.

None of these modifications will substantially change the ACA's architecture or even smooth its roughest edges. But they badly undermine longer-standing Republican claims that the law is beyond fixing. If parts of it are clearly fixable, and being fixed, then new constituencies will come out of the woodwork seeking changes of their own, and resistance to more substantial ones will become harder to maintain.

And if a liberal publication such as this can see what undermining the GOP leadership has partaken of, shouldn't we be obliged NOT to fall for it as well? Such a one-size-fits-all, government-directed health care system won't work, and isn't working, no matter which party finds itself in power...and Republicans certainly aren't making a strong case for any future prevalence.