What do they think they're doing? Not a single Republican senator voted for the `Affordable Care' act when the Democrats rammed it through late Christmas Eve 2010. What are they doing?!The GOP will lose the House Senate and White House in 2016 if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs in this case.
And how exactly is this plan better than Obammycare?
The whole world is looking at this one the wrong way. All that’s needed is to eliminate abuses and reduce costs.
How about doing nothing ?
How about replacing it with freedom.
Obamacare-Lite.
Hey GOP - you might as well pass single payer.
You’re giving him his legacy and making the Democrats’ point for them that you hate Obamacare but can’t come up with a replacement for it.
Help stamp out Obama-Kare!
Replace it with Republi-Kare
Republicans, like democrats, are focused on subsidizing healthcare Insurance companies instead of restoring a market that delivers actual healthcare to people at costs fair to the buyer and the seller.
If you have affordable healthcare you don’t need a trillion dollar insurance industry and the federal government between tou and the healtcare provider.
In fact, eliminating the government and insurance companies as middle-men will ensure that healthcare becomes more affordable.
What do they think they're doing? Not a single Republican senator voted for the `Affordable Care' act when the Democrats rammed it through late Christmas Eve 2010. What are they doing?!I want them to ban regular insurance and only have catastrophic with HSAs with a mandate of those getting Earned Income Credit put it in their HSA. But I don’t want this cost sharing scheme and all the insurance mandates. Basically I want Obamacare repealed and the EIC turned into a HSA Funding mechanism for the poor.
We keep throwing more money at the poor, and they keep growing.
Explain to me again why conservatives moved heaven and earth to vote the publicrats back into power in 2014.
Then we have to deal with folks who do want insurance. Most of them are likely on welfare or Medicaid or whatever...already and get free "poverty" care. That sign at the hospital emergency room tells me so...."No one will be turned away".
The problem with ObamaCare - besides the Constitutional ones - is that it does not control cost.
A better plan would contain these elements
1.Tort reform to make frivolous law suits less common against both doctors and pharmaceutical companies
2.Charges to people going to emergency rooms for non-emergencies.
3. Allow some medical procedures such as basic physicals, examinations for continuing medication (Prostate, Allergy,Blood Pressure and the like), Prenatal Care, vaccinations and basic triage to be performed by RN’s or PA’s. These professionals have the training to refer problems to a doctor if a problem is detected.
4. Give doctors a 100% tax credit if they provide 2.5 days a month of charitable work. For example providing care for free on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of each month.
5. Provide scholarships for medical school so that doctors graduate with a lower debt load.
6. Medical savings accounts that are transferable within families or designated beneficiaries.
7. Illegal Aliens must pay for treatment.
Not a perfect plan but better than ObamaCare
“The second main element of the plan would offer people in states losing ObamaCare’s subsidies some tax credits to help them buy insurance.”
Fail.
The federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in health care.
This is an area reserved to the states.
If the SC strikes the federal exchange down, the Republicans should make sure that drives the stake through the heart of HillaryCare/ObummerCare/MarxCare for those states. Then announce the affected states are free to do, or not do, whatever they want, as the constitution allows.
They (Republicans) should also announce that ending taxpayer funded subsidies for this part of ObummerCare will be a small step in bringing under control the $18 trillion federal debt (not counting the off-the-budget liabilities).
The mere fact that Mr. Lightbulb Ban is mixed-up in this tells me I want absolutely nothing to do with it.
Whatever efforts the republicans portend is a wasted effort.
When it come to obamacare as with most other legislation, The Supreme Court is a misnomer, it is the Kings Court!
Sorry I am 100% cynical when it comes to our current communist gov’t... there in nothing I see happening that suggests we live in a Constitutional Free Republic.