Pelosi also said that congressional Democrats are working on a separate solution. Pelosi: House Dems have ACA plan

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Congressional Democrats are hoping to vote on their own plan to address the mass health insurance cancellations associated with Obamacare.

She called it a “belt and suspenders” approach that would reinforce, but is not intended to compete with the administrative fix announced by President Barack Obama on Thursday.


“We have our own proposal, which we think is really good,” Pelosi said at the Washington Ideas Forum, sponsored by the Atlantic magazine. “I think that we’ll see in the next 24, 48, 36 hours something to the effect of how do we accommodate those people” who have faced cancellation of their health plans.

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Although Pelosi expressed optimism that a solution could be found, she did not give details about what her fix would entail.

It would likely be a motion to recommit, a procedural vote associated with the vote Friday on the House Republican bill sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.). Such motions rarely, if ever, pass. But it would allow Democrats to say they voted for a solution to repair Obama’s broken promise that consumers would be able to keep their insurance plans.

Later, at her weekly press conference, Pelosi urged House Democrats to oppose the Upton bill, which would allow insurance plans sold in 2013 to be sold for 2014 as well, calling it “very dangerous.”

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If it passed, Pelosi said, Upton’s bill would destroy “the [insurance] pools and expanding the market of who can buy into these plans,” which don’t meet Obamacare’s higher standards.

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