Posted on 02/09/2010 3:43:30 AM PST by tobyhill
When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with no new federal mandates and only a modest expansion of the federal safety net.
It is not clear that Republicans and the White House are willing to negotiate seriously with each other, and Mr. Obama has rejected Republican demands that he start from scratch in developing health care legislation.
But Congressional Republicans have laid out principles and alternatives that provide a road map to what a Republican health care bill would look like if they had the power to decide the outcome.
The different approaches will be on display Feb. 25, when lawmakers from both parties are scheduled to go to Blair House, across the street from the White House, for a televised clash of health policy ideas.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Over-under on when they fold?
If the ‘Pubbies choose
To enter the Lion’s Den,
They best be prepared...
The voters want them
To start over on health care.
This should be our plan.
Keep up the drum-beat.
We’ll meet with the President,
If he’ll start over.
This is good strategy and good politics. The people do not like the Democrat plans currently working their way through Congress. The Republicans must keep up the drum-beat. These plans are unacceptable,and we have to start over.
Then when the President tries to paint them as being obstructionist, he will look like a fool because he is left clinging the the plans which everybody hates.
Why would they fold? Have have the people on their side. Unless and until that changes, it’s Obama that will have to fold.
Republicans should simply “stay away” from Healthcare Summit. The truth of the matter is that the president and the dem,ocrats have made the healthcare issue radioactive. Voters absolutely hate what the Dems tried to do and want all healthcare bills stopped until they can get to the voting booth in November and alter the makeup of the congress. Then, next year the newly reconstituted congress can take a stab at a healthcare reform that is more representative of what the people want.
The current health care legislation has got to be scrapped, all 2000 pages. Keep it simple, keep it equitable without sweet heart deals, address the costs not directly related to health care such as tort reform.
NO HEALTHCARE BILL AT ALL! WHAT IS THERE TO DISCUSS?
Odd that this is all the NY Slimes would print about the GOP's response to Zer0's invite.
...or maybe not so odd, afterall.
They aren't serious. Neither side is. Each side is only looking for a campaign issue that they can use against the other.
Frankly no bill is better than ANYTHING currently on the table...
these guys make the only sense I’ve heard out of a politican’s mouth in years
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/07/charting_our_way_to_solvency_100195.html
and I’m cynical enough to believe if it weren’t for the TeaParty...we’d never had even heard this much from either of them...the Republicrat party would’ve smothered them.
How about no health bill at all? Whatever happens in DC will just make things worse.
And take a scalpel to the massive new bureaucracies in the current bills.
Tort reform
Interstate health insurance policies
Decouple health insurance from employment
Allow doctors who take medicare/medicaid the freedom to price their products.
What about those who have medical insurance as a part of a retirement package from an employer?
LOL. This about sums it up.
“NO HEALTHCARE BILL AT ALL! WHAT IS THERE TO DISCUSS?”
Interstate competition
Tort Reform
Anything else, and the Dims will”modify” it with Obama Care.
Obama: “If I’m goin down, I ain’t goin down alone!”
The above statement is what is wrong with this whole idea. There should be no government expansion period. The GOP needs to nix the idea of any government control in health insurance and health care. Fix the tort laws, repeal the law making it impossible to buy insurance across state lines. AND THAT IS IT!. Nothing else needs to be done except for gradually phasing out Medicare and SS.
The GOP misses the whole point of the protest against nationalized health care, and that is that the American people simply don't want it!
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees for 2-3 years. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
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