Posted on 08/27/2015 2:02:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On August 18, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker became the first leading Republican presidential candidate to release a full-fledged Obamacare alternative. Walker’s alternative would fully repeal Obamacare and provide the sort of real reform for which Americans have long been waiting. But there has been a fair amount of misreporting in the wake of Walker’s announcement, and it’s worth setting the record straight.
It’s not Burr-Coburn-Hatch (or Burr-Hatch-Upton).
A couple of outlets, most notably the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, have erroneously suggested that Walker’s proposal is pretty much the same as the one released last year by senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch. For better or worse, that claim is false—Walker’s alternative is not Burr-Coburn-Hatch.........
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It would dramatically reduce federal spending and taxes.
As noted, Walker’s alternative would repeal Obamacare in its entirety. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that this happy result would cut taxes by more than $1.1 trillion from 2017 through 2025. In addition to that $1.1 trillion over nine years (which would likely be $1.3 trillion over a decade), Walker’s plan would cut taxes even more, as it would cut them even versus the pre-Obamacare status quo.
Walker’s alternative would close a tax loophole on the employer side.....
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It would provide protection for those who lose continuous coverage............
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In short, Walker’s alternative would provide overdue tax-relief for the middle class, cut federal spending and taxes by 13 figures apiece, and provide commonsense protections for those with preexisting conditions. It’s a political and policy winner.
Obamacare is the centerpiece legislation of Barack Obama’s presidency. It was very unpopular when the Democrats passed it, cost the Democrats the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, and remains very unpopular more than five years after Obama signed it into law. It is ripe for repeal. The only thing that’s been missing is a candidate who is willing to champion a credible conservative alternative. Walker has now stepped into that leadership void and has shown a willingness to take on this crucial fight. If he makes his alternative the centerpiece of his campaign, he may well have the chance to sign legislation in early 2017 that would mark a defining turn in the battle between limited-government conservatism and big-government liberalism.
One might wish for a few more details - but that wouldn’t be "hope and change" . . .
Read article. Typical poor reporting by lightweight that doesn’t comprehend anything beyond Snapchat.
Walker’s plan seems to be NO PLAN at all other than allowing tax credits to people to buy thier own plan.
Yawn.
So what do those who are currently on Obamacare do between the time President Walker repeals Obamacare and the time he passes his alternative?
What are those of us not on Obamacare to do while the fine increases continually?
Do what they did before. Provide for themselves.
It is NOT the fedgov’s job to provide healthcare. It IS the fedgov’s job to get out of the way and let the market do that.
Your fraud is owned by Koch Borthers and few other Cheap Labor Express Billionaire and Lobbyists.
Not to forget your boss George Wills Wife !
No more Romney -RNC smear merchants like your Brad Dayspring the RNC creep who stole the MS senate primary election.
Walker has surrounded himself with the exact DC elites who hate US including his former buddy R Prebius of the conservative hating RNC.
This are the DC elites who we are fighting and you want to enslave us again with!
No More DC Gope sock Puppets !
It seems that there is a lot of OP editorializing in the comments.
Hopefully, those who wish to fully inform themselves will check out the full article and the links.
Don't pay them?
Apparently Walker thinks it is. So what's his plan for those displaced by his Obamacare repeal to do before his replacement gets passed? If it gets passed?
Nice “squirrel” posting.
I can always gauge how close I’ve hit the mark, by how you fly in to take anti-Walker shots.
Have you found a candidate yet?
You don’t like his plan? Well he’ll have a different one tomorrow.
Walker redefining himself and his program again. Reminds me of that character in the movie “Animal House”. Flounder. Competent guy, but with the communication and political skills of a rock.
The good news for Walker is that he’s still a young man, he can get his house in order, refine his presentation and people skills, and still have a role in the future.
What did those people do before the fedgov interfered with their lives? They should do the same thing once obamacare is repealed.
For a most of those who had insurance before Obamacare, the kinds of policies they bought before were discontinued by the insurance companies because of Obamacare requirements. There is no "same thing" for them to go back to.
“It is NOT the fedgov’s job to provide healthcare. It IS the fedgov’s job to get out of the way and let the market do that.”
In a sane world that would be a call for Captain Obvious but it is too simple for most people to understand now. We are smothering in federal “solutions” for problems which either don’t actually exist or should be handled by individuals. We have closed the insane asylums and turned the whole country into an insane asylum without a roof.
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