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March 23, 2011 08:56 PM UTC

Ambush! "Does Colorado Want Amycare?"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

The natives at the conservative People’s Press Collective are getting restless:

Amazing as it may seem, the Colorado state House Republicans are negotiating with Governor Hickenlooper and the Senate Democrats to pass a key piece of Obamacare legislation: state health care exchanges. It is sponsored in the state senate by far left Senator Betty Boyd and in the House by Monument Representative and GOP Majority Leader Amy Stephens…

The sad fact is that if all 33 GOP representatives stick together, the Democrats can pass nothing. This bill is not compromise, this is surrender.

New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Idaho have already said “No” to healthcare exchanges. Colorado must say no as well…

It seems we’re not the only ones who are curious about the role of GOP Majority Leader Amy Stephens in the health care exchange legislation, while also sponsoring a bill to pull Colorado out of the federal health care system entirely. Stephens claims there’s no contradiction.

Tonight at 5:30 at El Paso County GOP headquarters, the word we hear is a very large and rowdy “Tea Party” crowd will confront Rep. Stephens about this at a town hall. As you can see, the right isn’t of the opinion that exchanges are the “most free-market part of Obamacare.” Given that a large number of them think “Obamacare” is one step from turning Grandma into Soylent Green, Stephens may be about to learn the downside of a base who will believe anything.

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11 thoughts on “Ambush! “Does Colorado Want Amycare?”

    1. you people are ” nuts “, even ” bat shit crazy “.

      don’t any of you have ” jobs ” ?

      What’s with all the ” pitchforks “

  1. Do you really want to help the Tea Party attack Stephens when she is helping you? Setting aside the chance to stick your enemy, are you sure it’s wise to promote attacks against her from the right?

    1. This is a political website before it’s an advocacy website.  We’re political geeks first, and this is a political “meta” diary.

      Good for Rep. Stephens for supporting the exchange plan; if she’s the only Republican who signs on, the exchange plan still probably goes through.  Enacting the exchange is a key part of the cost reduction and increased insured coverage goals of the ACA; it’s strictly voluntary on the part of insurance companies, but those who sign up get access to a pool of new customers.  I don’t know what’s not to like.

      Except that it might mean the health care plan is moving down the field toward being operational, and Tea Partiers can’t seem to stand the thought of that.

    2. Tea Party supporters have no qualms about eviscerating ANY Republican who is not as extreme as they.  The GOP jumped into bed with the Tea Party at its peril.  Health care exchanges make sense and it is up to Amy to defend and to sell her idea to moderate Republicans.  Tea party activists aren’t the only folks who show up at GOP functions.

    3. You should probably take your complaint to Al Maurer, the Peoples Press, and the Tea Party idiots who are stalking the town hall with all the thoughtful consideration they showed the Democrats in August 2009. I think that was the point of the diary: you can’t ride the tiger of hysteria and expect it not to eat you sooner or later.

      For that matter, has all that money invested in the Independence Institute’s sustained effort to debunk every bit of legitimacy of the health care law now constitute an attack on Amy Stephens if Pols points it out?

  2. if a state chooses not to create its own exchange, won’t it just be required to use the federal one? States cannot just opt out of the exchange requirement. The health care bill gave them the courtesy of being able to create their own.

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