First, repeal Obamacare. I pray each night that the exclusion clause is upheld and the whole thing is overturned.
Second, any new bill will likely have some of the old...and a LOT more of what wasn’t in the first. I’m not against have children stay on a parent’s plan longer...maybe not until 27 but the younger ages will help lower the risk pool and lower costs. Tort reform MUST be in any new bill, healthcare spending accounts, etc.
I won’t start throwing rocks at Cantor because they say some of the old will be in the Republican plan.
Read Bobby Jindahl’s 10 suggestions. I believe he IS qualified to speak on healthcare policy, his grad work was in healthcare policy. (link below).
Give these guys a chance...
How about letting the market decide who has a plan that supports children until they are 27? Same with some of Jindal’s other ideas, such as to provide healthy incentives. Also, since when is having a national centralized medical record database a believable boon for privacy or cost? Finally, the big killer that Cantor and Jindal both support is really the practical end to noncoerced health insurance—which is forcing insurers to pay for pre-existing conditions. If people really are uninsurable otherwise, then state high-risk pools can cover them without ruining the whole healthcare market.
And Cantor has always folded with the Establishment—just as with TARP.