Posted on 10/02/2009 1:02:35 PM PDT by presidio9
Even as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama's health care proposals, some GOP leaders worry their party is being hurt by a Democratic counterattack: Where is your plan?
Republican leaders chose not to draft their own comprehensive bill, focusing instead on attacking Democrats' plans as too costly and bureaucratic. Some prominent Republicans now fear they are getting tagged as the "party of no," and they want the GOP to offer more solutions to the nation's health care problems.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential GOP presidential contender in 2012, said it's time for Republicans "to pivot and say, in addition to emphasizing what we oppose, here are our proposals" for health care. The two parties can agree on some important improvements, he said in an interview Thursday, but Democrats must trim their proposed costs.
Democrats, meanwhile, see a rare chance to go on the offensive in the debate, which has sometimes seemed dominated by fiery attacks on Obama's proposals.
"The Grand Old Party's coffers are empty when it comes to health care reform," Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Democrats' second-ranking Senate leader, said Thursday.
A new CBS-New York Times poll found that only 14 percent of Americans think Republicans have clearly explained their plans to change the health care system, while 76 percent do not. Obama's numbers were better, though not stellar: 37 percent yes, 55 percent no.
Aware of the criticisms, House Republican leaders have compiled lists of bills and principles that various colleagues have offered this year. But even the whole list combined doesn't match the breadth and detail of the massive Democratic-crafted health care bills that have
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It’s House bill 3400, for anybody willing to pay attention or listen.
They should show up Sunday morning at each Sunday show with a copy in hand.
Ask Jim DeMint.
Here’s my health plan:
Get rid of medicare/medicaid and leave everything else alone.
The free market, protected from government interference by the liberty protecting U.S. Constitution.
The Republicans should reply that “no health plan is better than what your party came up with.”
Where's your Olympics in your cesspool?
Oh yeah, OH YEAH, well, well, ummm, well, WHERE IS YOUR OLYMPICS!! Huh?
Darrell Issa proposed letting everyone join Congress’ health plan
Note that the tone is: “We’ve GOT to do something!!!!!” Sometimes, doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.....
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Not that Nazi Pelosi or her Brownshirts are interested, anyway.
As far as I am concerned saying “NO!” to idiotic legislation that will result in making America into a second-rate, bankrupt mockery of everything that our betters in previous generations worked so hard to create is a fine position.
Message to politicians of both parties: STOP!!!!!!
I pay $364 per month and my former employer contributes $?, for one sorry ass plan. I cannot afford a “free” plan from the damn government.
All I want from the government is a strong military to protect my old self and I’ll pay my taxes for that with a smile on my face.
Here’s a “less pure” plan:
HSA’s
subsidized catastrophic insurance
tort reform
insurance reform (sell across state lines)
Been tried, works.
“It’s the one that 3/4 of Americans say they are happy with right now.”
Just like the taunts of “Where’s Osama”,
we can now say “Where’s the Olympics? - mmm, mmm, mmm”
The problem is, most 0bambots won’t even be aware of the little kid video referenced in the above taunt.
We DON’T NEED anything called a Republican Health Plan.
We need a couple of specifically aimed bills, which will actually help eliminate the costs of health care.
Tort reform should be number one. It would not only slice back the insurance costs for doctors and practices, but it would cut the Democrats’ largest source of campaign contributions—donations from crooked tort lawyers.
My health plan is about $250 per month of my own money.
This is the same bunch that won’t allow the Republicans in the room?
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