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GOP on Health Care: In 568 words, what's wrong with 1,990 pages (Boehner radio address)
Washington Times via BigGovernment.com ^ | 10/31/2009 | Byron York

Posted on 10/31/2009 1:10:01 PM PDT by GVnana

In 568 words, what's wrong with 1,990 pages

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
10/31/09 10:44 AM EDT

House Republican Leader John Boehner gave the Republican radio address today, and in 568 words made a simple and compelling case for what is wrong with the Democrats' 1,990-page health care proposal -- and for what should be done instead.

"This 1,990 pages of bureaucracy will centralize health care decision making in Washington, DC," Boehner said. "It’ll require thousands of new federal employees. It’ll put unelected boards, bureaus, and commissions in charge of who gets access to what drug and what potentially life-saving treatment."

"The best way to get a sense of what Speaker Pelosi’s takeover of health care looks like is to actually look at it," Boehner continued. "Just shy of 2,000 pages, it runs more than 620 pages longer than the government-run plan Hillary Clinton proposed in 1993."

Boehner then offered four proposals to improve the health care situation in America -- not a universal fix, but four significant improvements:

Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines;

Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do today;

Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs; and

Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnercare; gop; gophealth; healthcare; republicans
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Boehner address at link.
1 posted on 10/31/2009 1:10:01 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Excellent start


2 posted on 10/31/2009 1:12:24 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Hi Johnnie.
Boehner is a good guy. He’s trying.


3 posted on 10/31/2009 1:13:36 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (PHILLIES IN FIVE!!)
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To: GVnana
No doubt the White House and Democrats in Congress will continue to insist that Republicans "have no plan." But Boehner's four proposals are contained in fleshed-out legislative form in several GOP reform bills. They really exist. You can check them out.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-stifle-Republican-health-care-plans-8224780-58644807.html

The virtual embargo on reporting Republican legislation has allowed Democrats and their allies in the media to keep up the "Republicans have no plan" attack. Just hours after the president's speech, for example, the Democratic National Committee released a new commercial claiming that Republicans "refuse to offer a plan" to reform the health care system. Just for the record, in case you want to check them out, these are the bills proposed, so far, by Price and his allies in the House:

H.R. 77; H.R. 109; H.R. 198; H.R. 270; H.R. 321; H.R. 464; H.R. 502; H.R. 544; H.R. 917; H.R. 1086; H.R. 1118; H.R. 1441; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1468; H.R. 1658; H.R. 1891; H.R. 2520; H.R. 2607; H.R. 2692; H.R. 2784; H.R. 2785; H.R. 2786; H.R. 2787; H.R. 3141; H.R. 3217; H.R. 3218; H.R. 3356; H.R. 3372; H.R. 3400; H.R. 3438; H.R. 3454; and H.R. 3478.

4 posted on 10/31/2009 1:15:22 PM PDT by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Fudd Fan

Can sum up Obama care in fewer words.
You, Pay...
You give up personal freedoms.
You dont get care if we deem you a burden.
Employers, BOHICA.....
Lazy welfare cheats take.....
You pay more....
There....summed that up


5 posted on 10/31/2009 1:16:56 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Agreed.

The libs think we don’t have a plan, that we are the party of no.

Well, I guess the truth comes out

They are the party of NO:

No interstate (free market) insurance plans
No to stopping frivilous lawsuits through tort reform
No uninsured illegals
No hope for small businesses to band together and pool risk thereby lowering costs.

The republicans have always had a plan- they planned to get out of the way!


6 posted on 10/31/2009 1:17:26 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: GVnana

Why can’t the GOP buy prime time and do a 30 minute infomercial like the dems? Perhaps it’s because all of us conservatives have bailed on the GOP. Their fault; step aside GOP, conservatives will get ‘er done.


7 posted on 10/31/2009 1:17:48 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Live Free Or Die)
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To: GVnana

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“Republicans warn: Rationing medicine has already begun
But in a joint opinion piece called "Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer," published
in the online version of The Advocate, a leading homosexual magazine, Sen. Tom
Coburn, R-Okla., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron warned the homosexual
community that the Ryan White CARE Act has already demonstrated how government-
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"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
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neither need nor want—or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan—we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
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The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. “


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The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care.

Three years ago, Massachusetts adopted a plan requiring all residents to purchase health
insurance, with state subsidies for lower-income residents. But rather than creating a
utopia of high-quality affordable healthcare, the result has been the exact opposite –
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Street Journal and The Boston Globe-Democrat “


"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009
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The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006
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"Pushing Veterans Toward the Grave”


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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369511/posts "In September 2005 the GMC found Dr Shankar guilty of serious professional misconduct after he dismissed the case of a baby with a blocked artery and then forged his notes on the examination. Nine-day-old Daniel Miller, whose leg had turned dark blue, had a life threatening blood clot and his toes were becoming gangrenous, but Dr Shankar had said his nappy was too tight. He was suspended for six months, and after a failed appeal in March 2007 received a further nine month ban. However, in January 2008 the GMC allowed him to return to unrestricted practice." http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01505/Nikki_Sams_1505230c.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/20/article-1221461-06E16677000005DC-800_233x743.jpg "Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
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"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"



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8 posted on 10/31/2009 1:18:26 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: GVnana

I can cut it down to 5 words.

The people don’t want it.


9 posted on 10/31/2009 1:19:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: GVnana

Excellent start.

Dems need to grow a brain and trial lawyers would have to demand their bribes back for it to happen.


10 posted on 10/31/2009 1:21:21 PM PDT by carolina71
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To: Yorlik803
Can sum up Obama care in fewer words.
You, Pay...
You give up personal freedoms. You dont get care if we deem you a burden.
Non Government Employers, BOHICA..... Lazy welfare cheats take..... You pay more.... There....summed that up

There's a fix for ya'. ; )

11 posted on 10/31/2009 1:30:13 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Indy Pendance
Can you imagine if the networks refuse to sell them the time to do as you suggest?

-PJ

12 posted on 10/31/2009 1:32:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: cripplecreek

No kidding, hubby and I will be defiant. Civil Disobedience, throw us in prison.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”


13 posted on 10/31/2009 1:33:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Live Free Or Die)
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To: Yorlik803
Can sum up Obama care in fewer words. You, Pay... You give up personal freedoms. You dont get care if we deem you a burden. Employers, BOHICA..... Lazy welfare cheats take..... You pay more.... There....summed that up

Very good, although I can use even fewer words:"Abort the young, euthanize the old."

14 posted on 10/31/2009 1:36:15 PM PDT by Marathoner (At least Hitler was a corporal.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

It will be just another commie move, and more ammo in our movement. The media and government forget about flyover country, us bitter clingers.

Fox would do it, and give them even MORE ratings! Let’s have more Grayson!


15 posted on 10/31/2009 1:36:29 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Live Free Or Die)
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To: Yorlik803

You forgot to add:
- More healthcare frauds by the healthcare criminals


16 posted on 10/31/2009 1:37:28 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Marathoner
Very good, although I can use even fewer words:"Abort the young, euthanize the old." Or die while waiting for healthcare.
17 posted on 10/31/2009 1:39:06 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: carolina71
Dems need to grow a brain

They wouldn't be dem's anymore then.

18 posted on 10/31/2009 1:40:03 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Justaham

With all these add on, we will still be under the 2000 pages that these douche bags wrote.


19 posted on 10/31/2009 1:40:15 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: GVnana

bump


20 posted on 10/31/2009 1:44:40 PM PDT by aShepard
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