GOP Needs to Make Case at Health Care Summit

Townhall.com ^ | February 10, 2010 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

[Candor7]

Obama is simply trying to manipulate public opinion against the GOP. He has no intention of using free market economy ideas in making health care work, like opening state lines so that people can chose which plans to buy.

Its all about statism, and getting at the wealth of sick Americans, and using the IRS to enforce sich a regime of enslavement. The GOP needs to reveal this to America.

[fortheDeclaration]

Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the average american who watches 3 minutes of news during survivor commercials.

The average American voter is the reason Obama's poll numbers are dropping and we have a GOP Senator from Mass.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Severe lack of brains, spine, guts, and gonads among the majority of Republicans in office everywhere at every level of government.

IMO, our future and our freedom are questionable with these gutless morons in office.

[Munz]

>The average American voter is the reason Obama’s poll numbers are dropping and we have a GOP Senator from Mass.<

No I respectfully disagree. What we are seeing is the conservative who generally doesn’t like to make waves finally being fed up with the nonsense in America.

The young voters are extremely ignorant and buy the Obama lies hook line and sinker because they live off his sound bytes. They haven’t seen politicians at work before wooing an audience and they believed him.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for posting this, Kaslin; and for pinging me, Ex-Tex!

The Republican leadership has to adopt both a short-term and long-term strategy for controlling the message in a pro-active way.

They have to make it clear that

• they are not at Obama's beck-and-call, and do not intend to sit there like chumps while Obama postures and poses for the media; and

• they have their own ideas for Health Care Health, which would be perfectly sensible and workable without being stuck like bacon bits onto the huge, lard-bloated Choresterol-o-palooza known as the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Greaseburger.

  In other words, we are not interested in providing add-ins to any cardiac-arrest Obamanation of a bill.

My list to my congresscritter looks something like this (as separate bill ideas):

• Portability: Allow citizens to take their health plan with tem when they move or change jobs
• Tort Reform: End frivolous and jackpot lawsuits against doctors, by requiring losers in suits to pay all legal costs, and cap lawsuit awards (e.g. a modest $250,000 cap on pain and suffering claims.)
• End Interstate Restrictions: Allow citizens to buy health insurance across state lines, creating vastly more genuine competition between insurance companies by giving more choices to citizens.
• Tax Deductions: Make all health insurance and medical costs tax-deductible to individuals.
• Health Savings Accounts: Expand HSA/IRAs.
• End discrimination by insurers against people who sign up and then later get sick: Make it illegal for insurance companies to drop you if you become ill, injured, or disabled.

Just these reforms alone would quickly cut the cost of health care in America 30-40%. And once people get jobs --- real jobs in the private sector, resulting from the revival of American business and industry, not craptitious government make-work projects --- millions more will be in a position to make their own health-care choices.

Which is a characteristic of free citizens.

[sheik yerbouty]

Good point, since 0bama will use the event for propaganda anyway..