Posted on 04/10/2014 8:15:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Paul Ryan are collaborating on an Obamacare alternative and could announce the proposal as early as this month, according to Republican sources.
Both Republicans have been regularly engaged in pushing legislation on major issues — and both have made it a habit to form cross-chamber partnerships to further those endeavors.
But this particular partnership is notable given the high-profile nature of health care reform and that Rubio, Florida's junior senator, and Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman from Wisconsin, are both considered possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
Aides to Rubio and Ryan declined to discuss the forthcoming proposal when asked about it Wednesday afternoon.
"Congressman Ryan continues working with his colleagues, including reformers like Sen. Rubio, on better solutions to deliver quality, affordable coverage to American families," Ryan spokesman William Allison said.
“I don’t have anything to announce today,” Rubio told the Washington Examiner.
However, such a proposal could influence GOP health care policy as congressional Republicans search for an alternative to the Affordable Care Act to coalesce around ahead of the 2014 midterms. The proposal also could affect how Republicans approach repealing and replacing Obamacare next year if the GOP wins the Senate in November.
Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice-presidential nominee who is set to take over as House Ways and Means Committee chairman in January, has left the door open to a presidential run in 2016. Rubio said in a recent interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt that he could decide by this time next year whether to run for president or seek re-election to his Senate seat.
Here’s a nice alternative: Return to REAL free market system. Not the one we had before Obamacare.
And, what took so long!
I just want to know that the illegal invaders are going to be included or else I will not sign on./s
REPEAL Obamacare, and pass legislation that would explicity prohibit the government from EVER trying to take over health insurance again.
I can dream, can't I?
O here we go again...we are being screwed again
“Congressman Ryan continues working with his colleagues, including reformers like Sen. Rubio, on better solutions to deliver quality, affordable coverage to American families,”
But they should NEVER get directly involved via socialist or fascist policies.
Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber. Can't wait to see what this looks like. Or, maybe I can.
O here we go again...we are being screwed again
Yes, but is OUR big government program!”
Get Eric Cantor in their and they'd have a GOPe hat trick!
We don’t want their government plan either.
Are they Dr’s or Insurance Experts ?
I sincerely hope that Rand Paul will actually act like a libertarian during this process and say, “We’re going to allow the market and doctors make decisions, not the government.”
Yeesh. :)
I want these two out of the picture. I don’t trust them further than I can throw them.
IOW: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE base, like us again! Pretty pleeeaaassee!!!!!
Here’s a nice alternative: Return to REAL free market system. Not the one we had before Obamacare
i agree
We haven’t had a REAL free-market system in healthcare since probably about the 1920s.
What we had before was a patchwork of overregulation, union perks and anti-consumerism enacted as policy. Much of this was the result of Federal mis-regulation of the insurance companies, the actions of the insurance companies themselves, and the effect of Federal benefit programs.
A new system definitely has to emerge in any case, now that Obamacare has destroyed even the quasi-functional thing we had before, so let’s make it a good one.
Having read things written by both of them, I’d say the new system would have HSA’s, greater consumer choice through the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, a reduction on the amount of control exercised by the unions as well as a reduction on all the Federal tax breaks they get (which the consumer does not), and some way of better allocating and controlling the funds we already spend on medical care to the poor.
Yep, Ryan and Rubio are GOPe Statists. If they can't even say up front Repeal first, then we are screwed.
They will come out with "reforms" not repeal.
Ryan's main goal is to protect the political class in D.C. I loathed the GOPe.
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