Posted on 09/09/2009 6:34:57 PM PDT by Cecilia Trent
"It’s time to start over on a common-sense, bipartisan plan focused on lowering the cost of health care while improving quality. That’s what I heard over the past several months in talking to thousands of my constituents. Replacing your family’s current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. We can do better, with a targeted approach that tackles the biggest problems." – Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr. , MD, September 9, 2009
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I'll look at the plan. I confess I haven't read it yet.
But, from experience, I doubt they have figured out what part of Article 1 Section 8 of the United State Constitution actually gives them the authority for a lot of their programs.
Medicare prescription drug coverage?
No Child Left Behind
There are some things within the delegated powers in Article 1 that are possible, though.
Tort reform, setting standards for lawsuits and changing rules to "loser pays court costs."
Perhaps a federal mandate to allow interstate commerce in Health Insurance, provided they don't override anything other than specific geographic requirements in state laws. IE, if New York sets minimum standards within their state, then they can require those standards be met by any policy that a New Yorker buys.
The federal government doesn't have the authority to set those standards, and can't be getting into that.
If they want an easy exchange, allow any citizen or small business to buy in to this health plan. If someone wants to join that plan, and they want to pay the premium, they should be able to. Forget about forcing congress into the "public option," just let the people have your plan, Mr. _resident.
we cant afford any....they took our money already....why dont they give the pork back...
Conservative healthcare initiatives are much better than those proposed by democrats and they would be a lot more effective in reducing healthcare costs and covering more people.
1. Allow people to buy healthcare insurance across state lines. This will increase competition among healthcare insurers and drive prices down which will have the result of making healthcare insurance a lot more affordable to a lot more people.
2. Tort reform. Reducing the amount doctors must spend on malpractice insurance would go a long way in bringing prices down. While there still would remain in place the possibility of lawsuits for egregious medical malpractice lawsuits, tort reform would make the system a lot more fairer for doctors and surgeons.
3. Identification requirements would make it impossible for illegals to get any taxpayer funded healthcare insurance which would include employers being able to verify social security numbers. Illegals could still get healthcare insurance but they would have to pay it out of their own pocket.
4. Offer tax breaks and other incentives to insurance companies to provide wider coverage to individuals with pre existing medical conditions as a way to decrease denial of needed surgical or medical procedures or decrease denial of any medical or healthcare coverage.
I liked the rebuttal by the AMERICAN!
Some health insurance reform-okay some things can be fixed. However, most Americans do not want health care reformed because when the government gets involved in reform, it takes over.
Who can forget this?
Obama campaigned on SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE
(notice the audience)
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk
Obama is such a LIAR!
Bravo on Art. 1 Sec. 8.
Then again, what politician on either side of the aisle pays attention to those pesky enumerated powers, anyway?
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