Thirty-nine Democrats joint in passing Upton's "Keep your plan" fix

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Fox News: House approves ObamaCare insurance fix​

The House on Friday approved a bill to let insurance companies sell health plans that had previously been canceled due to ObamaCare regulations, a day after President Obama moved unilaterally to fix the problem.

The bill passed 261-157. Thirty-nine Democrats crossed over to support the GOP-backed legislation. (Click for the vote breakdown.)

The bill would go a step further than the plan Obama announced on Thursday, by allowing insurance companies to sell the old plans to customers who previously had them, as well as new customers, for another year. Obama's plan would only apply to those customers enrolled in the plans before the cancellation notices went out.

But Republicans, in bringing the bill to the floor on Friday, raised the broader concern that Obama might not have the authority to make those changes on his own. House Speaker John Boehner said he's "highly skeptical that they can do this administratively."

Unfortunately, this is more of the same kind of effort that will likely be to no avail. Again, negotiations to set pricing for providers has to be done months in advance. The Great Pretender's "plan" as outlined yesterday has already been panned by insurance industry executives and state insurance commissioners, who say it is expecting too quick a response to much to massive a problem.

This all spells disaster for the ACA. As Boehner said Thursday, the only way to fix this thing is to get rid of it. By the time first polls come out next year for the November elections, you're going to see a whole bunch of Democrats willing to take their lumps for voting for it in the first place, to vote for repealing it this time around.

 

[Don]

Don't forget--because it goes farther than his own plan, the president has already stated he'll veto this....