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
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.
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.
The alternative is called personal liberty, rule of law, and sanctity of freely-made contracts.
It worked fine the way it was before.
Get back to it!.....................
Free market, let companies offer coverage across state lines, allow competition.
The very premise that there “needs” to be an “alternative” I.e. “replacement” is wrong.
The system was only broken due to meddling and frivolous lawsuits.
HMO s came about in the wake of the 1993 Hillarycare attempt.
And everyone knows the joke about HMO s.
the federal government corrupts everything it touches. Keep them away from health insurance.
Improving America’s Health Care (from GOP 1996 platform)
Our goal is to maintain the quality of America’s health care - the best in the world, bar none - while making health care and health insurance more accessible and more affordable. That means allowing health care providers to respond to consumer demand through consumer choice.
That approach stands in stark contrast to Bill Clinton’s health plan of 1993. “Clintoncare” would have been a poison pill for the nation’s health care system.
Congressional Republicans countered with the right prescription:
make insurance portable from job to job;
ensure that persons are not denied coverage because of preexisting health conditions when changing employment;
crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, while preserving the confidentiality of medical records from inappropriate scrutiny and without imposing criminal penalties for clerical errors and billing mistakes;
reform malpractice laws, to reduce the costly practice of “defensive medicine” and to make it easier for doctors to specialize in fields like obstetrics. We also recognize the vital importance of maintaining the confidentiality of the national practitioners data base;
let individuals set up tax-free Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), so they can plan for their own medical needs instead of relying on government or insurance companies.
Republicans believe that Medicare and Medicaid recipients should also have the option to utilize Medical Savings Accounts, which would result in huge savings for the American taxpayers;
overhaul the Food and Drug Administration to get better products on the market faster and at less cost to consumers;
change IRS rules that restrict coverage: let employer groups offer tax-exempt policies and make premiums 100% deductible for farmers, small businesses, and all the self-employed;
promote a private market for long-term care insurance;
reduce paperwork through electronic billing;
change anti-trust laws to let health care providers cooperate in holding down charges;
avoid mandatory coverages that make consumers pay for more insurance than they need;
allow multi-employer purchasing groups and form “risk pools” in the States to make employee health insurance more affordable;
remove regulatory barriers to the use of managed care for those who choose it. Traditionally, all Americans have had the freedom to choose their health care plans, as well as the providers who treat them. To ensure quality of care, it is imperative that patients continue to enjoy the freedoms to which they have become accustomed. Communications between providers and patients should be free and open, and allow for full discussion of the patient’s medical care. Financial arrangements should not be a barrier to a patient’s receiving quality medical care;
permit families with incomes up to twice the poverty level to buy into Medicaid;
promote rural health care through telecommunications and emergency air transport;
and increase funding for Community and Migrant Health Centers.
Like others said: Free market. But make health care providers advertise their pricing. No more back room deals and different prices for different folks.
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