What’s interesting in the news today?

It appears House Republicans are prepared to put forth an ObamaCare alternative. Repeal and replace.

From TheHill  “The conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) is preparing to unveil  legislation that would replace ObamaCare with a new set of healthcare reforms. 

A spokesman for RSC Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) confirmed Friday  that members of the group will introduce their measure after the August recess.”

“Chairman Scalise and the RSC Health Care Working Group are drafting legislation  to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a conservative alternative that fixes  the problems in our healthcare system without the harmful taxes and mandates in  the President’s law,” Stephen Bell said in a statement to The Hill. “The  timetable for rollout is slated for this fall.””

This seems to be the idea the general public has too. They continue to come in strongly against. This poll has 57% calling it a joke. Ouch.

From FoxNews  “Majorities of Americans think the new health care law is going to increase  their medical costs and their taxes — and add to the federal deficit as  well. Those are some of the reasons why voters say — by a two-to-one  margin — that Congress should keep working on the law.

A Fox News national poll released Thursday also asks voters about how they  think Obamacare is being carried out: 31 percent say “it’s going fine,” yet a  57-percent majority feels “it’s a joke.”

Republicans are more than three times as likely to say it’s a joke (87  percent vs. 25 percent). Still, a quarter of Democrats agree.

Nine times as many Democrats as Republicans say implementation of Obamacare is going fine (63 percent vs. 7 percent).”

It’s fine, everything’s fine. 🙄 Sure.

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But it appears they may be about to cave and vote for amnesty, if this is accurate.

Also from TheHill  “Forty to 50 House Republicans will support immigration reform, Rep. Luis  Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) predicted Thursday.

Gutiérrez said many of the Republicans supportive of immigration reform don’t  want to be identified, but he insisted they would support comprehensive  immigration reform.

“If they ask me today, go find those 40 to 50 Republicans, I’ll tell them I  found them. I know where they’re at,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with Ed O’Keefe at The Washington Post.”

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Good. Let’s get to it.

From FoxNews  “The non-partisan Government Accountability Office confirmed Thursday it is  launching an investigation into how the country’s largest abortion provider  spent millions of taxpayer dollars.

Planned Parenthood received more than a half billion dollars in federal  funding last year. The GAO’s investigation is in response to a request made by  more than 50 members of Congress in February who asked for a detailed report on  how money is being used by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers  across the country.”

“The GAO’s investigation comes on the heels of a settlement involving a Texas  affiliate of the organization, which paid $4.3 million in July to settle  allegations of fraud in billing to a health program for the poor. The settlement  was $3 million more than what had been announced earlier by the Texas Attorney  General.”

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Next up, privacy is dead. Not only is the govt peeping on your cell, internet, and phone, but now a court has said perverts can even look in your window and photo you and your kids inside your home. And you can’t do anything about it. Wow.

From TheNYPost  “A Manhattan judge ruled this week that artistic freedom trumps the rights of parents who don’t want their kids secretly photographed through the windows of their homes.

Judge Eileen Rakower tossed a lawsuit brought by two parents against a Tribeca artist who snapped pictures of their children through their apartment windows as part of a controversial exhibition this year.

“But controversy erupted after Svenson’s models learned that they were being photographed without their knowledge — and that the images were being exhibited and sold for up to $10,000 each.”

“But Rakower ruled Monday that Svenson’s artistic freedom superseded their privacy concerns, and dismissed the case outright.”

Art trumps your privacy. Nice.

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