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Posted on 08/25/2013 12:21:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama is being "disingenuous" when he says Republicans have no alternative to Obamacare, says Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a man with a plan of his own. "The president knows that there are other alternatives out there, alternatives that put patients and families and doctors in charge, not Washington, D.C.," Price told Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Wednesday.
"Our proposal, H.R. 2300, is comprehensive legislation that would get folks covered with insurance that they want to buy for themselves, not that the government forces them to buy; solves insurance challenges, like portability and preexisting (conditions); and saves hundreds of billions of dollars, does all of that without raising your taxes a penny and doesn't put Washington in charge of a thing.
"There are wonderful, positive alternatives. To have the president continue to say that (there are no alternatives) is just not true, and he knows it's disingenuous when he says it."
Price re-introduced his legislation -- The Empowering Patients First Act -- on June 6. (He previously sponsored the Empowering Patients First Act in the 111th and 112th Congresses as H.R. 3400 and H.R. 3000, respectively.)
Among other things, H.R. 2300 would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a plan that includes tax incentives for maintaining health insurance coverage (no individual mandate).
Price's plan would allow the purchase of health insurance with pre-tax dollars; it would provide grants to each state to provide coverage through a high-risk pool; it would allow small business owners to band together across state lines to purchase health coverage for their families and employees at a lower cost; and it would allow insurers licensed to sell policies in one state to offer them to residents of any other state. It also proposes to lower costs through malpractice reform...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
138 co-sponsors.
We need 218 votes.
Lots of calls to make and emails to send.
Bookmarking this thread to keep the link you have provided.
Once we complete this quarter’s FReepathon, I think that link will need a thread of its own, so FReepers can easily see which RINO-Critters have yet to pledge or co-sponsor!
Those RINO-Critters will have to be blasted with phone calls and email.
Yeah, the coward politicians crack me up. They come up with all kinds of creative ways to say "lie". At least Price didn't say Ubama is telling a "falsehood", or even more ridiculous, an "untruth".
Personally, I don't understand the coward politicians' aversion to the simple, clear, one-syllable, 3-letter word "lie".
Can you say, "Ubama is a liar"? I knew you could.
The politicians who lie to us all the time do double damage. First of course because their policies usually hurt us. But second because they destroy our system of representative governance. They’re supposed to be our agents but when your agent or representative lies about what he’s doing then you have no way of controlling or supervising what he does (to you or others in your name). I object to all their lies at least as much as I object to their lousy policies.
There was also HR 3100 of the previous Congress (2009-2011), which was never discussed in the “Polite Company” of ABC-CBS-CNN-NBC, and only breifly covered by Fox News.
The Media’s “Republicans Have No Obamacare Replacement” Myth
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:57:58 PM by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905803/posts
3 big health-care myths
(debunking the basic “reasons” for obamacare)
Posted on Monday, August 17, 2009 9:15:41 PM by SmartInsight
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318382/posts
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” –Mark Twain
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