Must-Read Memo on GOP Health Proposal

The Weekly Standard ^ | 1-27-2014 | william kristol

[Solson]

2017 Project executive director (and frequent TWS contributor) Jeff Anderson has an important memo outlining the new health care reform proposal from three senior Republican senators that would repeal Obamacare and replace it with legislation that "beats Obamacare in every particular" and would also "address many of the most serious shortcomings of the pre-Obamacare status quo." You can read Anderson's memo in full, below. There's been a lot of talk in magazines and from think tanks about a "conservative reform agenda"—and some laments as to the slowness of GOP elected officials to champion such an agenda. This proposal could mark an important moment in the dam of timidity and resistance breaking, and could prove to be an important inflection point in the GOP's effort to become by 2016 a national governing party.

[EternalVigilance]

“We can do socialism better than Obama.”

signed,
The Republicans

[Solson]

The best summation of this yet. thanks!

[BfloGuy]

to NOT have Washington DC involved AT ALL in health insurance

You are wrong. Period.

One of the actually-enumerated powers of the Congress is to regulate interstate commerce. That we still allow the fifty states to prohibit the purchase of insurance across state lines is ridiculous.

This is something the Republicans should address.

[TurboZamboni]

The Media’s “Republicans Have No Obamacare Replacement” Myth

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/The-Media-s-Republicans-Have-No-Obamacare-Replacement-Myth

here are twenty-seven pages of health care bills Republicans introduced in this Congress:

http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/UploadedFiles/RSC_Policy_Brief-Members_Health_Care_Initiatives.pdf

These are some of the best ones:

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/carockow/our-favorite-bills-to-replace-obamacare

Many good, debate-worthy bills have been introduced, and more bills are expected to be introduced. Each of these bills would move us toward a more patient-centered system by expanding individual freedom:

Rep. Paul Broun’s Patient OPTION Act (H.R. 4224)

Rep. Todd Rokita’s State Health Flexibility Act (H.R. 4160)

Sen. Rand Paul’s Congressional Health Care for Seniors Act (S. 2196)

Sen. Jim DeMint’s Retirement Freedom Act (S. 1317)

Rep. Bill Huizenga’s Health Freedom for Seniors Act (H.R. 3819)