Coble Votes to Repeal Health Care Law
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Congressman Howard Coble voted in favor of repealing the health care law enacted last year.
The U.S. House voted 245-189 in favor of repeal Wednesday. The vote was along party lines in the GOP-controlled chamber. Coble is a Republican who represents Moore County.
In remarks delivered Tuesday, Coble called for a surgical knife approach, rather than a meat ax on the legislation.
"When we debated health care reform during the 111th Congress, I made a statement that we need to fine-tune the engine and not overhaul it," Coble said. "I reiterate that theory today."
Coble said the vote sends a message that "we are serious about fixing our broken health care system."
"There is agreement from both sides of the aisle that we need to improve our health care system," Coble said. "These improvements must enhance the quality and accessibility of care in a fiscally responsible manner.
"The law implemented last year failed to meet this criteria - particularly the onerous 1099 tax increase on small businesses -- that is just one glaring example. By repealing Obamacare, we will have the opportunity to take a more prudent approach of fine-tuning our health care law to ensure that it encompasses sound principles."
The repeal measure now goes to the Senate, where it faces tough going in a chamber still controlled by Democrats. President Obama has promised to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.
Contact Florence Gilkeson at florence@thepilot.com.
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blythebarne 2 years, 4 months ago
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pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
First, thank you Mr. Coble. I am in desperate need of a knee replacement and am not offered insurance at my job. This job, by the way is full time and I have never missed a single day. Secondly, as far as a private plan, I just followed the help from "blythebarne" and the plan is not $30.00 or so a month as the statement suggests. I take minimal blood pressure medication and mine would be $278.00 a month with a $10,000 deductibe. REALLY! That is not something I can agree on. What about your people Mr.Coble?
bigD 2 years, 4 months ago
"I am in desperate need of a knee replacement and am not offered insurance at my job" Sorry Pacer but this would not be insurance.
Consider if I were terminally ill and in desperate need of life insurance to provide for my family when I pass. Which insurance company should be required to sell me a policy and at what limits?
pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
Actually, if you pay attention, the part that is in effect is benefiting seniors with Medicare, children in college and kids with pre existing. I won't feel the effects until 2014 but thanks for your interest.
stephen 2 years, 4 months ago
Hmmm....I've had an incurable disease since my 30s and I've always been able to get insurance. I just have to pay more. I guess I don't feel it is up to the other tax payers to fund my insurance. And 26 is the age a child can be on their parent's insurance?? 26??? That isn't a child, that is an adult. That just causes our premiums to go up. They say this Obamacare will save 45000 lives a year. A life or death situation. If that many people are dying because of not having insurance, why is it going to take several years to kick in??? Oh yeah, pay for ten years, insurance for six. Government has ruined Medicare and Social Security. Not one program the government runs is financially successful. Not one.
sgmartin 2 years, 4 months ago
That showed great courage to vote with your party. I guess you follow orders well. No thought required.
RmeMP 2 years, 4 months ago
just like your party has for the past two years? is that why what happened in Novemeber will happen again in 2012? ;)
jamjam 2 years, 4 months ago
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Coble was reelected and could care less about the unemployed and uninsured. One of the political PACS that support his votes is the Health Care Industry; the other is pharmaceuticals. We know where his allegiance stands.
I wonder if Congresswoman Gabby Griffiths was uninsured as opposed to being insured by the taxpayers, what kind of treatment she would have received. Canada has health care for their citizens as well as most other free world countries, but not the PAC supported Washington representatives who were elected by voters. Coble and his entire staff benefit from taxpayers to pay for their health care. Why not cut out the pork and everyone could have quality health care. Boehner will probably propose a bill for the Kevorkian Health Care Solutions for those who are unable to afford insurance. Very high deductibles are the coming straw that will break the backs of the working class.
pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
And in response to that "Toda" I can hardly wait to see what the health care "haters" will have to say then, and who they blame this one on. Peace.
palominomom 2 years, 4 months ago
Did I miss something? Has Howard declined his taxpayer funded health care benefits - if so, perhaps, he might have a shred of credibility.
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Coble receives Medicare since he is in his late 70's. His staff receives their health insurance like all the Congressional staffers, it's in his budget. Coble said he would decline the retirement benefits aka the Golden Fleece Club - a benefit that anyone who serves is entitled to a portion of their salary after retirement. At his age, I doubt he will live long enough to receive much from retirement. Just my opinion.
bigD 2 years, 4 months ago
Palo-Did you decline to accept benefits from your employer's health plan?
Mark106 2 years, 4 months ago
Darwinism!
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Maybe all of the obamacare supporters should move to where health care is provided. Since things are so great there.....
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Obviously you have no family who is retirement age...ever hear of medicare? Obama had absolutely nothing to do with Social Security or medicare....
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Republicans want to put together a "pool" for people who have been denied coverage. If this is done along with allowing "pools" to shop across state lines. It will reduce rates by increasing competition.
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Like Blue Sheild of California who raised rates 60%, and a one attorney said she couldn't afford health care in California. Congress and the lobbyists for health care and pharmecuticals are in bed together. Just check out http://www.opensecrets.org
See which of your representivies aren't being paid by PAC's. Name one!
pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
I am not asking for a handout "in the pines" I am requesting that rates are affordable. Typical reponse from a hater.
None 2 years, 4 months ago
my premiums went up 70% in the last 3 months, so i hope whomever benefits, off my back, sure thanks me in the future! oops i forgot no thanks are in order every american has a right to free or reduced healthcare, you freeloaders could sure help us working folks out by getting a job and becoming somewhat responsible!!! oops again, lost my train of thought, nowdays pulic assistance is an occupation not a benefit!
None 2 years, 4 months ago
Hey buddy ~ perhaps you should start picketing the post office on the first of the month and tell all those seniors who have contributed their entire lives to send the checks back and their medicare cards. Freeloaders or excessive health care costs trumped up by the hospitals and drug companies....
Do you really think that the health care is going up due to people being unemployed? Think again, since BCBS has gone up every year so their CEO could break the 2 million mark in benefits and stock options. Are you hiring or anyone else you know of? The North Carolina Employment Security Office on Sheppards Trail - Aberdeen, contends that their are 100 applicants for every job advertised....so where are all the jobs you think those who have fallen on hard times can apply? You haven't seen nothin yet ~ just wait until the schools start laying off staff.
pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
What a terrible thing to say. This country is clearly seperated into two groups according to people like you, the have's and the slime. The only people that benefit from your increase is your insurance company. I do have a job, you ready, I work full time for a local surgeon.
pacer 2 years, 4 months ago
you missed the whole point, hater is for those, not unlike yourself, who cannot find a reasonable argument, so resort to false and often malicious comments, therefore further creating division in our nation. I never said anything about anyone but myself paying for anything. Do you read? I simply stated that health care should, in my opinion, be affordable for those who want it. Why do you "HATERS" have to resort to rhetoric? Why add further confusion? Why not just state fact or opinion instead of putting words in others mouths? Geesh!!!!!!!!!!!
huntrJ 2 years, 4 months ago
The issue here is fundamentally philosophical if you think about it. The conservative ideology belives that it is a person's own responsibility to take care of their health and that society does not owe that person anything because they have never transgressed against them. The Liberal ideology states that everyone is responsible in some way to their fellow man and that it is government's fundamental duty to ensure that those who don't want to contribute to charity are forced to.
Me being the Libertarian I am, I side with the Conservatives. Why should I have to worry about a person who doesn't pay for Health coverage? If you aren't working a job that is supporting you with healthcare and instead working in one where you have to pay it yourself, your fault, not mine. It was your choice and I refuse to pay for another human being's choice. I suggest you make your choices more wisely as I plan on doing. If you spend your money without considering needs, then I fail to feel any simpathy for you. Obamacare essentially says that I am responsible for your healthcare and if you deny that then you deny the facts.
nothingspecial 2 years, 4 months ago
Thanks Howard Coble for voting with the people to repeal an absolutely ludicrous and dishonest health care bill.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257625/why-everything-starts-repeal-charles-krauthammer
moonchild7 2 years, 4 months ago
The reason everyone's health insurance premiums have gone up is because of the 45-50 million people who use Hospital Emergency Rooms(where they can't be denied)as their Primary Care Doctor. How many times does this have to be explained to everyone? Mr. Coble understands absolutely NOTHING about human beings who are in need of help. Who voted for him? Oh, that's right....everyone who already has insurance. Any congress person who votes AGAINST health care for all in our country has no business representing anyone. They are useless to the average person; they only care about BIG BUSINESS and BIGGER MONEY.
RmeMP 2 years, 4 months ago
i think "huntrJ" hit the nail on the head in his first paragraph - it depends on your personal views on life; take care of yourself, or eveyone take care of each other.
personally, i believe that if teenagers are taught early in life about the importance of health insurance and, are taught that they SHOULD get it, then the problem will correct itself - unfotunitly nobody wants to pay for health insurance until they get older and need it, but the problem is by then you end up some some "condition" or injury and its expensive to get.
most people in our society (including me) are possesive and want alot of nice material things that they can touch - health care does not fit into their mentality when trying to budget their expenses until its too late.
thankfully when i got out of the military, and before accruing too much debt, i realized that i HAD to have insurance - which i budgeted for and still have :)
ps - i also have several "medical conditions", so i dont want to hear that excuse either
huntrJ 2 years, 4 months ago
@ Moonchild7
Once again, you portray the atypical ideology and suspicion of a classic Socialist. You follow that everyone is responsible for the welfare of his brother and that if they don't wish to give willingly, it is the State's duty to ensure that they do.
On Healthcare, why should we care? It was not my fault that these people decided to take a job that does not have medical coverage. I didn't go out and give them a medical illness so the question begs, why should I care? Coble understands that humans are responsible for themselves and we make choices in this world that will influence the rest of our lives. You merely want to let everyone do whatever they want without consequence. To inform you of history, that is what caused the fall of so many civilizations.
Lastly, come up with someone else to go after other than BIG Business and the Rich. They earned and sacrificed to get what they have, you are simply a jealous person who has arguably achieved nothing to the standard that they have and want to feel like you have achieved something close by stealing what these people have earned. Socialists like you have gone after business since the turn of the 20th century. The Left is responsible now for the fall of GM, the Steel industry, and States who are now contemplating Bankruptcey because Unions, supported by the left, have sucked the State Government dry. And if you didn't realize, he got voted and that means the AVERAGE person apparently likes Coble which only demonstrates your ignorance within the subject of politics. Please, buy some Common Sense the next time you go to grocery store instead of the Kool-Aid.
moonchild7 2 years, 4 months ago
Why should you care hunterj? Because not only do liberals care about our large family of "brothers and sisters" apparently our Founding Fathers did somewhat care after all. It seems that the new country called the United States of America depended a lot on our sailors and seamen to move commerce, the military and our country along. So having a "SICK" sailor was a negative; having a healthy sailor was better. In July 1798 President John Adams signed "An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Sailors" (The Marine Hospital Service). Sailors were "taxed" 20 cents per month to help pay for their care and this program was overseen by The Dept. of the Treasury. Essentially the first "publicly funded" health care in America, and it was modeled after the British Health Care system that it had for it's sailors. Eventually it became our Public Health Service. I think the Health Insurance Companies in this country are doing their best to try to really brainwash a lot of people out there about our past history and our present needs. They need to go away and the sooner the better. Oh, hunterj, I worked as a medicaid caseworker for over 5 yrs before I became a social worker....I know volumes more than you do about the health care system and health insurance in this country, and it is NOT pretty! It's very, very UGLY. I'm jealous of no one and you are becoming overly angry.
nothingspecial 2 years, 4 months ago
MC7, you're a legend in your own mind and with your vast experience should maybe run for political office yourself and solve this complex problem once and for all.
huntrJ 2 years, 4 months ago
It is not anger by which I rebuke your statements but by passion and Reason.
First, I am not a fan of Adams, nor will I ever be seeing as I am a follower of Jefferson. I absolutely hate the idea of our government getting involved in an issue that there was no need for. Healthcare then should have been the concern of the companies that hired the Sailors, except for those in the Navy who I do believe should be supported by the government. Companies would have eventually found that if sailors were getting sick and their profits were down, they would have to do something. (the profit theory)
As to your belief in Health Insurance Companies brainwashing people, I will direct you once again to my kool-aid statement.
Once again, you can not refudiate any of the points that I made earlier because they are firm in logic whereas yours are not. You can continue to spout how the Healthcare History in this country is very ugly, however you will can not speak of the great Advancements that have been achieved in our country through Big Business and Big Money because those overshadows your argument. Our country's history is perhaps sometimes sad and shows we are human in our faults, however there are many good things about it and if you will not mention them and give an honest history then you are merely biased within your thinking.
moonchild7 2 years, 4 months ago
We have the BEST Health Care System in the world but it is also the most expensive, inefficient and corrupt. Just because you are a "follower" of Jefferson's and you DON'T like Adam's does not negate what John Adams as President of the UNITED STATES did to help some of it's citizens. Your way of looking at history with a Conservative/Libertarian BLINDERS-ON approach doesn't get it. Now I know why I have so many detractors! You're only looking at the parts of our history that you like and not the actual and real history that has happened! I get it now. And nothingspecial I wanted to run for politicial office from the time I was 18 yrs old and cast my first Presidential vote. I started by running to become a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972. I made it to the "Interview" part and found out right then and there that the "Establishment"(the Democrats had a lot of closed minded individuals back then too)was a bit "disturbed" by a few of my "varied and "vast experiences". So, I withdrew my name. After that needless to say my "vast experiences" started to pile up like dirty laundry. Funny and sad thing is they have made me who I am...a knowledgeable, fair-minded and caring person. The everyday public can't handle someone like me and they certainly wouldn't have supported me in an election. I'd love to run for City Council or County Commissioner but I never will. Our country has missed out on having some great politicians but they couldn't handle the "REALNESS" of some of their life experiences and so discarded them. At least now I know what NOT to do in my life. Lesson's a lot of people have never learned.
huntrJ 2 years, 4 months ago
You are quite out of line in saying that I have the blinders on. May I remind you that through that, he did nothing to stop the British from capturing our sailors and forcing them into the British Navy? Yes, he did pass the bill but I fail to see how that helped anyone. Where is the evidence that it helped them? Didn't most of them suffer from scurvy all the same? How many still fell overboard to their death? How many used the Healthcare?
You still will refute the proof that the New Deal damaged our country, as economists now say, therefore making you and outright unbeliever in Truth. In respect, you are the one with the blinders on in this situation.
Also I never said that what Adams did, didn't happen. You are taking my words out of context.
I do not dare think you are not caring but you are not fair-minded by any means. The reason someone like you would not be elected would be because Socialism something many are not willing to surrender to yet. Your form of liberalism is virtually socialism.
moonchild7 2 years, 4 months ago
Sorry hunterj, I think we've already surrendered. The Social Security Act(part of the New Deal)and Medicare(the Great Society)have been great successes. Could they NOW be improved? Of course they can and they will be improved. FDR wanted to include a Health Care Act with Social Security but he knew Congress would never approve it and so left it out. We are a tremendously better country for enacting the parts of "Socialism" that are proven to work. The sick and disabled who are unable either financially, mentally, or physically to help care for themselves have those and other great legislative laws to be thankful for; knowing there will always be a "safety net" for them(or you). It sounds like some of you would run over a crippled person who couldn't limp across the street fast enough and get out of your way! Truth? You can't handle the truth.
huntrJ 2 years, 4 months ago
Those Socialistic pieces you are talking about are on the brink of no return and are utterly unsustainable. There's a reason why Europe is suffering from Riots and is having to repeal some of Socialist Acts and Bills. They are not Realistically sustainable unless your going to constantly tax the people higher and higher rates each year. They work for a short time but there is a reason why no Socialist civilizations has ever survived i.e. NKorea, USSR, Cuba.
And please, don't give me the "let's help those in need" speech. There is the existance of Charity thank you.
And finally, I can handle the truth. You dilude yourself to false conclusions that fit your ideology when my goal in life is to question everything. Your simply a textbook definition of the Modern Liberal.