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To learn more about the Affordable Care Act, check out "Obamacare 101: What You Need to Know About the Complex Law."
1 posted on 01/08/2014 10:08:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Who says we have to have one? Only the lefty’s...


2 posted on 01/08/2014 10:10:10 AM PST by BreezyDog
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I didn’t read this yet, but I have to say that is quite a name the author has: Napp Nazworth, it’s like something out of a Damon Runyon story.


3 posted on 01/08/2014 10:11:01 AM PST by jocon307
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We don’t need a republican alternative to obama care!!!


4 posted on 01/08/2014 10:11:09 AM PST by pgkdan
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Three easy pieces:

ability to sell policies across state lines

portability

tort reform

6 posted on 01/08/2014 10:14:42 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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Oh the answer is simple, but not well published, obviously, nor understood I suppose. The answer is the free market economy which brought America to be the wealthiest most powerful nation is the world. Freedom will do that.

One of the many problems is that this solution means LESS GOVERNMENT - MUCH less government. Seems that leaders on both sides of the isle don't like that answer. Both seem to have a personal stake in at least maintaining the level of government size and interference in our lives.

Nevertheless, free market capitalism is the subtle yet powerful and most effective solution to poverty known to man. Market and personal freedom should be shouted from the mountaintops these days as the absolute refutation to Socialism.

7 posted on 01/08/2014 10:16:41 AM PST by PapaNew
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The whole justification for O’care was the idea that vast numbers of people are out there without insurance.

But insurance was always available if you could afford it. That was the rub.

Under O’care, prices are tripling and you get a policy that doesn’t actually cover anything. If you couldn’t afford it before, how do you afford it now?

Dems say, if you don’t like our wrecking ball, whats your alternative? My alternative is to repeal the wrecking ball.


8 posted on 01/08/2014 10:17:33 AM PST by marron
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The government has no business being in healthcare to begin with.


11 posted on 01/08/2014 10:18:26 AM PST by plainshame
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Don't know about a Republican alternative... the GOP leadership is just as happy to stick with the big-government solution... but here is a Conservative idea:

STOP EXEMPTING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY FROM LAWS THAT BAN RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

Here's an article on that very topic by Karl Denninger, from his Market Ticker blog:

An Example Of The Health-Care Rape

If you don't want to click and read, here's a worthy sample:

Those practices are supposed to be a felony. So says the Sherman and Clayton Act (15 USC §1-3). So says (in respect to commodities) Robinson-Patman (15 USC §13).

So where are the prosecutions? They're missing, because we also have McCarran-Ferguson that exempts insurance companies from most of the Sherman and Clayton act (explicitly!) and that, along with other laws, effectively exempts the medical industry from laws that prohibit this behavior in virtually every other line of business.

As a direct consequence these 4,000% price disparities exist.

As a direct consequence you pay 4,000% more, directly and indirectly, than you should.

12 posted on 01/08/2014 10:19:48 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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Let the States control.


14 posted on 01/08/2014 10:21:19 AM PST by Paladin2
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Don’t need one.
Things were fine before the Obamacare trainwreck.

But if I were going to do it about the only think I could thin of would be allowing insurance shopping across state lines.


15 posted on 01/08/2014 10:23:03 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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How about freedom?


18 posted on 01/08/2014 10:32:07 AM PST by MNnice
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Who cares what the Republican alternatives are. What is the solution period?


19 posted on 01/08/2014 10:32:24 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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>> If Republicans are successful at replacing the Affordable Care Act

Replace? Repeal. Period.

This is the Uniparty in action. They dicker over methods but the agenda moves forward.


26 posted on 01/08/2014 10:36:15 AM PST by Ray76
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TWO WORDS... FREE MARKET!


29 posted on 01/08/2014 10:41:03 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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When someone calls it the AFA, you know which side they are no. This group must be the batch of pastors who think Jesus was a socialist/Marxist. That said, I firmly believe the R's in the Senate and House Tea Party type candidates, actually want 0bummercare and want to be in the minority as it gives them power and goodies for making deals AND they don't care a wit about us and wouldn't understand us because they see through the fogged class bubble around the 495 beltline.
30 posted on 01/08/2014 10:41:51 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Pajama-boy-in-chief's beatings continue until morale improves.)
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In 2014:

1.) Repeal Obamcare, entirely.
2.) Abolish, foever, any Mandated “Insurance.”
3.) Privatize Medicaid.
4.) Privatize Medicare.
5.) Privatize Disability payments.
6.) Privatize Aid to dependent children.
7.) Privatize Rent subsidies.
8.) Privatize Student Loans.
9.) Abolish Medical Emergency Hospital Care Laws.
10.) Put a low cap on medical lawsuit damages.
11.) Have an automatic Show-Cause, Pass-Fail Impeachment Review every 6 months for all Federal Politicians.
12.) Privatize Social Security.
13.) Abolish the IRS, Department of Socialist Education, and the NSA.
14.) Restrict all Executive Orders to their original restrictions: instructions to the White House gardeners and cooks.


31 posted on 01/08/2014 10:43:41 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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Status quo four years ago was far better. Status quo, but with insurance companies allowed to sell policies across state lines is far better. Status quo, except with reduced restrictions on the practice of medicine and on innovation would be far better. There are lots of conservative proposals, and almost anything would be better than ObamaCare. Libs are lying when they pretend there are no GOP proposals that are better than ObamaCare; all proposals are better, which is how Pelosi designed ObamaCare when she wanted it as a bridge to SinglePayer.


33 posted on 01/08/2014 10:46:21 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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The federal government should withdraw completely from any matters involving health with the exception of public health hazards across state lines.

The federal government should transition out of Medicare and Medicare by promoting a transition of physicians into retainer fee medicine with legislation binding on ***states*** that clinics and hospitals are to provide a minimum of 10% pro bono service to the indigent population. That means for example one 4-hour morning or one 4-hour afternoon per week by each clinic or hospital will be dedicated to those with the inability to pay.

Further federal legislation binding on states should restrict state insurance commissioners from prohibiting clinics and hospitals from purchasing reinsurance direct for referrals to specialists.

Further legislation binding on states should allow clinics and hospitals to set up their own reserves for monthly coverage plans that is audited and confirmed by a Certified Public Accountant as meeting standards of accounting practice.

The above points are designed to allow doctors to break free of the grip that health insurance companies have on their ability to practice.

Physicians who operate under retainer fee agreements without Medicare, Medicaid or insurance company reimbursments report that they have much more quality time with their patients and as a consequence are able to make better medical decisions and dispense better medical advice.

The goal if to bring patient and physiciian closer together with minimal third party interference.


34 posted on 01/08/2014 10:49:30 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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Um - My alternative to Obamacare?? How about just LEAVE US ALONE? And get those folks who need it some sort of assistance? That doesn’t take too awfully much thinking does it?


35 posted on 01/08/2014 10:55:38 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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What are the alternatives to ObamaCare?

How about;

Free enterprise

Liberty

Freedom


40 posted on 01/08/2014 11:13:01 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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