Posted on 02/08/2010 10:48:43 AM PST by La Lydia
Republicans say they have no idea yet who will be invited to join President Obama later this month to discuss health care reform but they have plenty of ideas if Obama is sincere about wanting to work together.
"When you learn about it in a press event you have the suspicion it's going to be nothing more than a press event," said Sage Eastman, communications director for Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., who wrote the Republican alternative to the Democratic bill.
"We're optimistic that this is a chance for the president to say to the American people that we've heard you. We're going to start over, we're going to scrap this bill and we're going to lower health care premiums for all Americans," Eastman told FoxNews.com...
Alexa Marrero, spokeswoman for Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, one of the three committees with jurisdiction over health care, said Republicans are willing to come "with a blank piece of paper" to write a bill.
"You're not going to see Republicans coming in with a flat set of items without any room for discussion," Marrero said.
But one question emerging is whether Democrats would be willing to approach reform in a step-by-step fashion rather than in one large reform measure. Eastman said the first priority should be lowering premiums to enable more people to purchase health care. He added that Republicans will probably want Medicare expenses to be restored and tax increases for businesses removed from any proposals.
"You don't have to spend a trillion dollars to lower health care costs," he said.
Marrero said Republicans are nowhere near the 80-percent agreement that Democratic lawmakers kicked around last year to suggest the health care bill was close to bipartisan...
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WRONG! I Don't want the government 'lowering health care premiums'- the ONLY thin the governbment can do is get the hell out of the way and it will fix itself- All they can do is make things worse if they try to legislate lower premiums.
Better:
Republican voters come to voting booth willing to Dump RINOs
Excellent.
We don’t want government health care. They want it. How the heck do you negotiate that?
Exactly and the idiots wonder why we don’t trust them. Every action they take is for the benefit of the libs.
They are all morons and idiots. We need to get rid of all of them and soon.
They are ticked since Rep Camp has said nothing and FOX took comments and twisted them !
His offices are closed in DC due to weather !
Like I Said Fox has just as many lefties in the news room as MSDNC and CNN !
They will get Repubs to compose a framework for reform and then slap a big ole public option on the bill.
The FIRST thing is stop fraud--talking hasn't done it yet. Second--tort reform to stop the frivolous law suits. Quit just paying off to avoid an expensive trial and start making the suers pay costs when they have no case.Third (and maybe first)--sell ins. where you want to buy it, across state lines, etc.
Quit spending trillions and yet expecting doctors to accept 20% more pay cuts. Medicare pays them next to nothing, now.vaudine
See my response since I called Camp office in MICH.
Fox Lefty News is full of crap.
WRONG- half way towards socialism is 100% wrong way
Caller on Rush suggested the Pubs respond that they’ll be glad to meet with Obama to discuss getting the country back on track economically, (because he obviously has no idea how to go about doing that) but will not discuss health care until the President shows his committment to jobs/economy/growth and then only in the context of scrapping this current bill and starting over from scratch.
The pubs won’t do it I fear, but it’s a great idea.
F——— Idiots...
We DONT NEED nor do we want a friggen health care bill!!!!!
How about getting us a F-—ing “get the federal government out of our GD lives bill”?!?!? Now THAT would be something I would get behind.
Honestly.. I just wanna punch these people in the head until im too tired to swing my arm...
--"My friends", The T-Paw/McLame,Romney,Grahamnesty wing will go down compromising to the end!
who is TPaw?
Tim Pawlenty
there’s another thread on this forum which says the GOP are cool to the idea...
This is going to be like walking into a field of landmines - party of no is the BO goal. Republicans can easily screw up the mid-term election - that is what this is all about, not reaching a compromise when even the democrats can’t even compromise on this issue with two very different bills pending. Democrats should work out their differences first.
You think Obambi is going to agree to scrap the existing Plans that passed the House and Senate? If he doesent agree, theres no talks. .All for show.
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