Repeal and Replace has been the right’s mantra since this crap sandwich was passed into law. Our side cannot be painted into the position of just getting rid of Obamacare because we’ll get bludgeoned for wanting to make ‘30 million’ go without health care.
If we have no alternative, we’ll get beaten badly. The insurance market is broken. People like their coverage but hate the cost. Things like pre-existing conditions are a legitimate problem. The government has has a massive hand in manipulating the whole thing through government-provided care to the poor and elderly and also through individual and business tax policy. Things need to be changed. It just needs to be reformed to get less government manipulation, not more manipulation and control, as the Democrats did.
I am not afraid of Replace, as long as Paul Ryan and the conservatives in the House have control of the bill. It has to be market-based reforms, opening competition, returning to the basics with catastrophic policies, using HSAs, and giving the individual the same incentives in the tax code as businesses. We have to break the model of employee-given health care....that’s a tough transition but one that is necessary. Right now, the government, employers, and insurance companies are in between us and our doctors, even for basic checkups and basic treatments. This system is crazy, and the government unfortunately has its prints all over the problems.
Yeah, picture the GOP-E working with Dems, with Romney eagerly waiting to sign, a bill that conservative members of the House and Senate are aghast over.
Quite likely.