Posted on 03/17/2014 4:56:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or alter Obamacare as the popularity of the legislation continues to be nearly non-existent. In the process, Republicans have been criticized for failing to present an alternative piece of legislation to replace Obamacare. More than a dozen alternative plans have been crafted on the Hill, but Republicans haven't been able to rally around a single plan. Now, that's changing as Republican prepare to present Americans with an official alternative to the Affordable Care Act:
The plan includes an expansion of high-risk insurance pools, promotion of health savings accounts and inducements for small businesses to purchase coverage together. The tenets of the plan — which could expand to include the ability to buy insurance across state lines, guaranteed renewability of policies and changes to medical-malpractice regulations — are ideas that various conservatives have for a long time backed as part of broader bills.
But this is the first time this year that House leaders will put their full force behind a single set of principles from those bills and present it as their vision. This month, House leaders will begin to share a memo with lawmakers outlining the plan, called “A Stronger Health Care System: The GOP Plan for Freedom, Flexibility, & Peace of Mind,” with suggestions on how Republicans should talk about it to their constituents.
The timing for this legislation is great for Republicans who just came off of a special election win in Florida where Democrat Alex Sink lost by running on a fix, don't repeal platform. Not only can Republicans running for election in the fall run against Obamacare, a law that will only continue to make the lives of Americans worse and more expensive, they can run on a new alternative.
O...M...G... who in the khell came up with that?...
Return to the pre-Obama programs. Re-write the Medicaid law to take care of pre-existing exclusions from private insurance carriers and allow insurance companies to operate across state borders.
Yes.
That’s the way the Founders set it up.
That’s the ultimate Constitutional fix.
I hope its not that BS plan Orrin Hatch came up with. Its worse than Obamacare.
I like your starting steps, but a couple more measures would put more power in the hands of individuals.
Individually tax deductible insurance premiums.
Pre-tax contributions to personal and family HSAs.
Tort reform.
I would be careful with this. You never know what is going to happen. You might be one time in a situation where you have to go to the emergency room and can not pay.
With people like you it's no wonder the left hates us.
Shame on you
anyone who advocates that hospitals must provide their services even to those who can not pay is advocating slavery.
would you also require restraunts to serve for free the hungry?
or that hotels or landlords provide free housing for those with no home who can’t pay?
I mean.. why stop with just medical care!
/s
By presenting a 'fix, don't repeal' program.
Republicans. Never. Learn.
Who cares why liberals hate us. I’m sure they don’t care why I hate them.
No business shoud be required to accept someone who can’t pay.
Shame on you for believing they should.
Most GOPe want pre-paid medicine with first dollar coverage, not real health insruance.
“Let the bidding begin!”
The media will portray this debate as “Who is promising to give you the most money?”
There goes any anti-Obamacare advantage we had.
IIRC, we already have pre-tax contributions to HSA’s. I have one, and now that you mention it I’m going to have to go back and verify that.
Like your other two add’s. Well done. Agree, Tort reform IS needed to bring costs down.
Shame on you for being so cold
Here’s a twist that would make libs’ heads explode -
the HSA is inheritable without tax burden.
That’s genius.
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