Posted on 11/17/2014 9:08:26 AM PST by PROCON
This month, two developments have shaken the conventional wisdom that repealing President Obama’s healthcare law is an impossibility.
First, Republicans scored a historic election victory, not only taking control of the Senate but likely winning the most House seats since 1928 — the year before Ernest Hemingway published A Farewell to Arms.
Second, the Supreme Court took up another case on Obamacare, and if the justices rule against the administration, it would force a re-opening of the law.
This doesn’t even account for the recently released videos of one of Obamacare’s main architects, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, conceding that Democrats misled the public to get the legislation passed, benefiting from “the stupidity of the American voter.”
The prospects of repealing Obamacare can now be better described, in the words of Rocco Lampone in The Godfather Part II, as “difficult, not impossible.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It is called the Free Market.
Why an alternative?
It was working fine before Obamacare.
Yea, it’s called: “Keep your damn hands off my healthcare and forget about making me pay for anyone else’s healthcare!”
Alternative: Tort reform
Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance. Make it like car insurance and homeowners/renters insurance.
Repeal.
The Free Market is the alternative.
It works every time it is tried.
Do nothing Congress, PLEASE!
Before Hillary started yapping and Clintbilly stuck his oar in, medical care used to be a LOT cheaper and more efficient.
Then, with Clinton, half the money went to the insurance companies instead of the hospitals and doctors.
And with Obama, God alone knows where the money is going. Clinton certainly doesn’t, and he doesn’t care, just as long as it’s being sucked out of our pockets.
free market
let people buy healthcare policies across state lines
health savings accounts
blah blah blah
Yes and I hope that darned IRS penalty at tax time will disappear before it is implemented.
Agree with the first. The second should be at the discretion of the employer.
If you still have a doctor, and you want to, you can keep your doctor, HSA, insurance across state lines, keep your moonshine and cigars, no piece no justice...errr wait, it's all running together...
I wonder if Obama will ask for the $400,000 back from Gruber if his words help destroy ObamaCare.
The GOP has had an alternative for 6 years. In every election it is posted on the website.
Yeah, we’ve repeatedly offered an alternative, in about 4 points,
and it’s already been proven to ACTUALLY lower premiums, deductibles, and increase the number of available providers/doctors.
Sure, but issues like insurance fraud, double billing, etc., need to be addressed.
The second should be at the discretion of the employer.
I’d like to see employers offer their employees a cash alternative to buying their health care insurance.
Just saw this on Twitter:
Does Obama know how often that putz #Gruber visits the WH? Maybe he should check http://t.co/9VgpNTVcxv #tcot http://t.co/ztPOd4QLLN
Get rid of Reagan's EMTALA.
End all .gov subsidies and contributions, ie your money.
Paying cash will take care of the rest.
If our Repubs don't solve the problems, go far enough; it will fail. Not as easy as parroting the free market approach, and I wish it was.
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