Posted on 08/15/2013 7:36:39 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
No big huge raving fan of Gingrich anymore, but when he's right he's completely on the money:
Boston (CNN) – Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reprimanded his fellow Republicans in unusually harsh terms Wednesday, blaming GOP members of Congress for developing "zero" alternatives to President Obama's health care reform law.
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Are you serious? Price, Coburn, Ryan, and several other Reps have presented healthcare plans multiple times.
The Republican Party needs to advocate for free market solutions and absolutely not fall into the trap of putting forward a plan that increases the size, scope and power of government in unconstitutional ways.
Government does NOT need to have a plan, other than to dismantle the beast that Government [0bama] created.
Newt, where in the Constitution does it say that the Federal Government needs to provide health care ideas?
I just hear that brought up a lot from various people in the media of course. My point is why can’t we change our minds like the libs do all the time.
Who needs an “alternative”???
Just get the hell out, period. No gummint rules, no mandates, no nuthin’.
What I propose is what all true conservatives propose; let the market determine healthcare availability and costs. The mess we have now is DIRECTLY caused by government meddling.
But, such a "do nothing" approach, although the most sane and effective, will be cast exactly as "do nothing heartlessness." So, are we going to let the radical Left dictate what we "do?" Are we going to give people unearned, undeserved goodies just because the left says we should?
That being said, one thing different that conservatives can propose is opening up the markets even more by allowing insurance shopping interstate. The competition would drive down prices immensely. But, this has already been proposed, with the Left screeching about the solution nevertheless.
So we should just resign ourselves to losing?
Reagan didn’t think that way.
My idea is simply this: The GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS IN HEALTHCARE.
The Republican alternative is to give government backed loans to individuals that request them for medical procedures.
A person takes out a loan, shops the medicine available in the market and makes a decision. Then they pay the loan back according to their ability to pay. The loan can be backed by any / all / none / some combination of assets.
Individuals will keep the costs down because they don’t want to borrow more than is absolutely necessary. The taxpayer wins because at the most, we are on the hook for actual procedures performed rather than “insurance for everyone.” Fits on one page. 1 new agency (or fold it into Fanny / Freddy )
So? Is this an unprecedented "tragedy?" Absolutely not. Many more were uninsured in the past, and we made it very well to the future.
Many are not covered, by their own choice! Many make bad decisions, the ramifications of which more responsible Americans shouldn't pay for. Show me some poor soul who "can't afford health insurance" and I'll show you a mental juvenile who can't do without his smartphone, his $159 monthly cable t.v./internet service, his new $5,000 rims for his pimpmobile, a $200k house that he can't really afford, and thousands spent on body piercings and tattoos, cigarettes, and booze.
Actually,there was a problem. I’m self employed and I couldn’t buy health insurance for over 30 years because I had had a melanoma removed - when I was 29. It required no follow up treatment, nothing, and I asked if I could get a policy excluding even that particular thing. The insurance companies told me it would be too costly for them to diagnose it in order to exclude it.
So, yes, there was definitely a problem. But the Clinton/Obama plan was NOT the solution.
Yes just saying we are going to have medical savings accounts and tort reform is not a plan.
IMO the American public has to be weaned off the $10 co-pay every time they run to the doctor. Insurance should be for major medical and you pay for the flu yourself. When I was a kid you went to the doctor you paid the doctor. They did not have to file a bunch of paperwork with an insurance company. That keeps the cost down.
My doctor charges my Mom $124 for an office visit because she has Medicare. He charges me $40 because I write a check.
Reagan was for limited government. If this means doing NOTHING to keep it from growing bigger, this was Reagan’s plan.
What is the GOP alternative?
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How about keeping the governments filthy hands out of the insurance industry and out of our medical records? How about that?
The only alternative is to KILL the BILL.
Easier said then done. The government has been in the health care business for 50 years beginning with Medicare. There are 60 million on Medicaid. All Obamacare did was take over what was left.
that is exactly right, and yet if you mention even tiny Medicare cuts to the same people on this thread who are barking about Obamacare, they become irate.
The FreeRepublic conservative is basically someone who LOVES government entitlement programs, never wants to see them cut, ever, but just doesn’t want to pay for them.
No ideas because government has no business in it what so ever. Stay out. I don’t want their ideas except to repeal NObamaCare.
The CONSERVATIVE alternative would be to get government out of the healthcare business entirely.
The REPUBLICAN alternative will undoubtedly be Obamacare Lite.
How about this you RNC idiots!!!!!
Get rid of the asinine can’t cross state borders for insurance, and then limit the lawsuit amounts!
Bam! 2 ideas in 10 seconds!
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