Posted on 11/01/2009 5:56:25 PM PST by Steelfish
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
GOP Set to Propose Its Own Health Bill
By GREG HITT
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in strategy as the full House is set to begin debate on the issue this week.
Mr. Boehner said Sunday the Republican bill would extend health-insurance coverage to "millions" of Americans but wouldn't try to match the scope of the House Democratic bill unveiled last week. The Democratic legislation, if passed, is estimated to expand coverage to more than 30 million Americans now without insurance. Its estimated gross cost is $1.055 trillion over 10 years.
"What we do is we try to make the current system work better," Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, said on CNN's "State of the Nation." He said the GOP bill would be less costly to taxpayers and involve less government intrusion into the health-care sector, instead taking "a step-by-step approach" to expanding coverage.
It would, among other things, propose new limits on medical malpractice lawsuits and make it easier for individuals and small businesses to pool resources to purchase insurance.
Mr. Boehner said the Republican bill would also include a proposal to provide grants to states that use "innovative" solutions to expand insurance. He pointed to states that have created special "high-risk pools" to provide insurance coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions
He said the bill wouldn't raise taxes, nor mandate that individuals and businesses purchase insurance, as the Democratic legislation does.
For months, Republicans have attacked the Democratic health plan, hammering at pieces of the bill -- such as a proposed government-run health plan -- and helping to stir public doubt over the initiative.
By unveiling their own legislation, Republicans will be able to coalesce around a concrete plan.
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Spine developing?
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Is it 20,000 pages yet? What else is tacked onto it that has no relation to the title?
And how exactly do you plan to pay for those "grants," Boehner?
And, what's to prevent those "grants" from going to shore up otherwise failing state-level health care fascism, e.g., "Romneycare" in Massachusetts?
As far as I am concerned, this is more tomfoolery from the Stupid Party establishment. They have seen what is going on in NY's 23rd District, and they are running scared for their own political lives.
If Rep. Bonehead really wanted to be "innovative," he would get the Feds out of health care entirely!
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
Maybe they can get Dede and Newt to sell it for ‘em.
Sort of late isn’t it?
The best thing to do is nothing.
Anything the government does is a total screw up so if the Republicans offer nothing we’d be significantly better off, no one would have to post anything on-line to read, it would save paper, save tax payers money, we’d get to keep our own insurance and keep our own doctors.
Doing nothing makes sense...
Add in some tort reform at the Stat level and what the competition drive down the prices.
It sounds good, but one has to ask why such a bill was not wheeled out months ago when all of this started.
If Rep. Bonehead really wanted to be “innovative,” he would get the Feds out of health care entirely!
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Exactly
There are already healthcare bills done from our side... what’s wrong with those?
Is there going to come a point in time where the Republicans will realize that we do not want their brand of Health Care or the Democrats? We just want them to get the heck out of our way and let us solve these problems in the private sector. Just remove the barriers.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Read this (scroll down on the constitution re: regulation):
Note the title... evidenced by reactions on this thread.
We have five bills here at the site being read over... as well as teams on the Deathcare bill.
Sure, that's what we'd prefer. But it's not gonna happen -- not with this Congress, nor this administration.
Boehner's proposal is strictly pro forma. Now, when the left shrieks and the independents ask, the GOP House "had a plan".
And, God knows, it's a better one than Pelosi's...
He is quite the idiot. What about allowing purchase of health insurance across statelines? How bout expanding the use of medical savings accounts and catastrophic health insurance (which is banned in NY)? How bout upping co-pays and decreasing premiums?
It's not gonna happen cause Boehner and the RINO Party establishment are too scared to stand up for real freedom for once! Instead, they will either stand aside and stay quiet as those who aren't scared are pilloried...or join in the beat down themselves!
do nothing, say nothing —> be nothing
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look at the number of Republicans in the
current Congress
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