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Introducing Obamcare Lite: What the new GOP health reform ‘alternative’ really tells us
The Washington Post ^ | February 5, 2015 | Paul Waldman

Posted on 02/08/2015 7:15:30 PM PST by Eagle Forgotten

What’s really remarkable about this plan is that for all the claims we’ll hear about how it undoes the tyrannical horror of Obamacare, the Republicans’ version of health care reform has accepted most of the fundamental goals and regulatory paths of the law they so deeply despise. This plan — authored by Senators Richard Burr and Orrin Hatch and Rep. Fred Upton — is little more than Obamacare Lite. Though the devil is in the details — and there are some devilish ones — this tells us that Barack Obama has for all intents and purposes won the health care argument, at least as far as it concerns government’s role in health care.

(details of Republican proposal snipped)

In all these cases, they aren’t looking for some free-market alternative that will supposedly deliver even better results. They’re accepting government’s role in both regulating insurance and in helping people pay for it; they just want to make the benefits not so attractive.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: obamacare; republicans; uniparty
The whole article is a criticism from the left, the basic argument being that Obamacare aims at universal coverage and the Republican plan doesn't. What's worth reading in it, though, is its detailed explanation how the supposed Republican "alternative" amounts to no more than slightly watering down the law. The plan would keep: no denials for pre-existing conditions, people up to age 26 must be allowed to stay on their parents’ plan, subsidies for millions of people (though at lower levels), taxes on high-value plans, and many of the constraints on insurance companies’ underwriting decisions. And this is from the REPUBLICANS!
1 posted on 02/08/2015 7:15:31 PM PST by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Replacing the government monstrosity with the free market isn’t even on the table.


2 posted on 02/08/2015 7:18:18 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Eagle Forgotten

The EXEMPT still deem themselves EXEMPT
despite the fair election. -— and
the now proven LIES of the elected.

Is a French revolution required before the
EXEMPT understand that they cannot remain above the Law?


3 posted on 02/08/2015 7:21:31 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Eagle Forgotten

From https://www.conservativereview.com/scorecard:

Orin Hatch: 60% F
Richard Burr: 55% F
Fred Upton: 44% F

This isn’t Obamacare lite, its democrat lite. If this is the best the GOP has to offer, we are in deep dog doo.


4 posted on 02/08/2015 7:26:28 PM PST by stratboy
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Because it’s all about buying and selling human flesh as Body Mortages by “insurance”-”banking”. To be bought, sold, and traded, like animals, as the next Mortage Backed Securities. Trafficking

Which is why Extortion-Care was bribed through, the ponzi MBS backstop. Trafficking in the selling of Human Body Mortgages by so called “insurance-banking.”

The new MBS, leveraged to any amounts, to any forced deductibles, any forced premiums, any forced coercion taxation, any forced account seizures. The selling and trafficking in Human Body Mortgages.


5 posted on 02/08/2015 7:38:43 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: stratboy

Obamacare lite


6 posted on 02/08/2015 7:39:46 PM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Trafficking

Because it’s all about buying and selling human flesh as Body Mortgages by “insurance”-”banking”. To be bought, sold, and traded, like animals, as the next Mortgage Backed Securities. Trafficking

Which is why Extortion-Care was bribed through, the ponzi MBS backstop. Trafficking in the selling of Human Body Mortgages by so called “insurance-banking.”

The new MBS, leveraged to any amounts, to any forced deductibles, any forced premiums, any forced coercion taxation, any forced account seizures. The selling and trafficking in Human Body Mortgages


7 posted on 02/08/2015 7:41:01 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Fred Upton was the man responsible for the incandescant lightbulb ban.
Orin Hatch was best friends with Drunk Teddy and it shows.....


8 posted on 02/08/2015 7:48:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Once they get their foot in the health care door it just a matter of slowly increasing their influence. It’s like cancer, once it establishes a presence, it begins to expand.


9 posted on 02/08/2015 7:51:14 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

If it doesn’t eliminate government involvement and introduce competition, we’re just making mime motions.


10 posted on 02/08/2015 7:52:16 PM PST by lurk
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To: Eagle Forgotten

If it doesn’t eliminate government involvement and introduce competition, we’re just making mime motions.


11 posted on 02/08/2015 7:54:15 PM PST by lurk
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Uniparty!


12 posted on 02/08/2015 8:04:47 PM PST by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

“And this is from the REPUBLICANS

If we don’t get a Presidential candidate with a clear alternative to this non-sense there is really not reason to give or work for the party or even vote.


13 posted on 02/08/2015 8:09:37 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: garjog

Their MBS Trafficking scheme in the trading of human bodies Golden Goose, was given away by The UndoumentedAma. Which is why they only wanted ONLY Romney or Hillary.

This is not “lite”. They are now after full blown buying and selling human flesh as Body Mortgages by “insurance”-”banking”. To be bought, sold, and traded, like animals, as the next Mortgage Backed Securities.

Trafficking


14 posted on 02/08/2015 8:25:12 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Diogenesis

“Is a French revolution required before the
EXEMPT understand that they cannot remain above the Law?”

Certainly appears that way.


15 posted on 02/08/2015 8:48:57 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: stratboy
If this is the best the GOP has to offer, we are in deep dog doo.

You've known this for a long time, I'm sure. This is no surprise. The "GOP", (an acronym for "we had our nuts cut off and lost our spine in the process) is the democrat party of 20 years ago. The RAT party is the Communist party of 10 years ago.

Conservatives, true conservatives, have been totally abandoned and left adrift.

16 posted on 02/08/2015 9:04:05 PM PST by LouAvul ("GOP" is an acronym for "We had our nuts cut off and lost our spine in the process.")
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To: SpaceBar

Boehner owns millions in healthcare stock, he will not allow obamacare to go away...... until he sells his shares.


17 posted on 02/08/2015 9:22:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Eagle Forgotten
they just want to make the benefits not so attractive.

? I guess this supposed to be an effort to keep it around but an even bigger mess for purely political reasons? They do realize their name would then be on it and the Democrats could then blame them for the mess it is causing?

This is stupid.

18 posted on 02/08/2015 9:35:18 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Tar, feather, repeat.


19 posted on 02/08/2015 11:57:43 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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