Posted on 11/05/2009 6:31:38 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Republicans will enact the health reform proposal they unveiled this week if they take back the House, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledged Thursday.
Appearing on the Republican National Committee's (RNC) online town hall, Boehner and other House and Senate leaders said they sensed momentum behind GOP efforts to halt Democratic health reform legislation, which is set for a vote on Saturday.
"If we get in the majority after the election, I plan to enact our healthcare plan," Boehner said during the town hall.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Never trust a man with a fake tan.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can. - Goldwater
When will Republicans begin speaking in those terms again?
Is this supposed GOP plan available online?
Socialism-lite is all the republican party has to offer.
Ugh. Boehner and the RINOs haven’t learned anything.
Can you believe that?
They don’t even listen. They don’t want to listen
We the people don’t want a bill period.
Get rid of them.
There are more than just those two items contained within the RINO health care plan.
Hmmmm ..?? I don’t think you’re paying attention.
The GOP plan is absolutely nothing like the dems plan - and it consists of only 230 pages.
It deals with people who have pre-existing conditions; tort reform; etc. Which means it includes several of the items which we need.
As far as I’m concerned .. I think they have finally learned we WANT SOMETHING DONE - BUT WE WANT IT DONE OUR WAY - NOT THEIRS.
Obviously you have not read the GOP plan. Too bad .. it’s a whole lot better (at 230 pages) than the mess created by the dems.
Before you start poo-pooing stuff .. you ought to investigate more.
“...think they have finally learned we WANT SOMETHING DONE - BUT WE WANT IT DONE OUR WAY - NOT THEIRS.”
You confuse me. If we as Conservatives want smaller government, smaller Federal Government then why would we want something done other than the Federal Government the Hell out of everything other than that prescribed by the Founders?
What Boehner doesn’t realize is that if we can make Nancy’s life Hell, we can do the same to him.
Yes and no, respectively.
I'm all for tort reform, but this violation of states' rights putting insurance regulation under unconstitutional Federal control doesn't warm my cockles one bit.
Here's why: If health insurers are not making oodles of money now (and they're not), then there isn't much to be saved in this measure. Oh but there is a bundle to be made in mergers and acquisitions! Are you interested in health-care insurers too big to fail?
Setting up an insurance company isn't like automobile manufacturing in that the economies of scale are very different. A holding company can set up fifty insurance subsidiaries with little difficulty. So this is really a non-problem. The real problem is corruption at the state level, but if you think Federalizing the system will fix that I have news for you.
Proving once again that people don’t check out what they’re arguing about.
Tort reform (reigning in the lawyers) is A GOOD THING (it doesn’t make govt bigger); being able to buy insurance across state lines (doesn’t make govt bigger either) - THAT’S ALSO A GOOD THING.
Neither of those things are in the dem plan .. but they’re in the GOP plan - which is what is NEEDED to bring costs down.
If you’re confused .. you’re not paying attention. Which means your only goal is to bad mouth the GOP.
My my you are a bit touchy aren’t you. I would imagine had YOU posted sensibly in the first place I would not have been confused.
Where in your original post did you mention tort reform, or purchasing insurance across State lines that would indicate YOU even understood what was going on?
You didn’t. You posted “....WANT SOMETHING DONE - BUT WE WANT IT DONE OUR WAY - NOT THEIRS.”
Calm yourself, and have a nice evening.
What an abolutely powerful & great statement by Barry Goldwater. Thanks for posting this!!! I am going to use this in my daily calls to libturd demoRAT (MN-1) Tim Walz's office. They really dislike my daily calls to this libturd's office!!!
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