How about, 'nothing'?
Posted on 09/20/2010 8:06:54 AM PDT by Hawk720
WASHINGTON — Republicans are promising to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care overhaul if they win control of Congress. But with what?
Not even they know.
Some have proposed major changes to workplace coverage, even turning Medicare into a voucher plan. Many prefer small steps that tiptoe around political land mines. Others want a clean start.
"During the health care debate there was just as much division within Republicans as there was between the parties," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a leading adviser to 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain. "It will be more visible now that Republicans may be in charge of one house because those divisions will come to the surface."
Republicans appear have better than even odds of winning the House. At least 75 seats are competitive, the vast majority held by Democrats, according to a recent Associated Press analysis. The GOP only has to win 40.
One of the first acts of a Republican majority would be a vote to repeal what they dismiss as "Obamacare." But they haven't said much about what would replace it.
A GOP bill rejected by the Democratic-led House last year is the closest thing to a starting point.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Howabout we just go with "repeal"?
How about nothing for a start!
The whole point in repealing would be NOT to replace it with anything.
Repeal it,
then look at the “Texas model” which is a proven success.
MSNBC is misleading again. Republicans support free market reforms to bring down costs. For example, buying insurance over state lines to increase competition.
MSNBC is misleading again. Republicans support free market reforms to bring down costs. For example, buying insurance over state lines to increase competition.
If after November the votes aren’t there to override a veto, it won’t be repealed. Beyond waiting for the next election, there should probably be a Plan B.
GET the GOVERNMENT out of HEALTHCARE....Government is what ruined it in the FIRST place!
Repeal, yea!, excellent, it’s about time!
Replace? Say WHAT?
There you have it folks. It’s only a bad plan when the Democrats foist off unConstitional mandates on us. If the Pubies do it, it’s wise beyond compare.
Steam coming out of both ears!
AP-Administration Propaganda
Who said it needs to be replaced? This obama leg-tingler of a liberal lackey didnt get the premise of “repeal”.
The size of obungacare indicates to me that it is about power and not about health care. Likewise Mark Steyn notes that the job of director or head of public health has become the biggest govt. job in European countries which have public health care i.e. it would be a step upwards from PM or President or King or Grand Duke or anything else to head of health care. In other words, European health care is ultimate bureaucracy.
If I had the power to I would institute a sort of a basic health care reform which would be overwhelmingly simple and which would resemble obungacare in no way, shape, or manner. Key points would be:
1. Elimination of lawsuits against doctors and other medical providers. There would be a general fund to compensate victims of malpractice for actual damage and a non-inbred system for weeding out those guilty of malpractice.
2. Elimination of the artificial exclusivity of the medical system. In other words our medical schools could easily produce two or three times the number of doctors they do with no noticeable drop off in quality.
3. Elimination of the various games which drive the cost of medicines towards unaffordability.
4. Elimination of the outmoded WW-II notion of triage in favor of a system which took some rational account of who pays for the system and who doesn't. The horror stories I keep reading about the middle-class guy with an injured child having to fill out forms for three hours while an endless procession of illegal immigrants just walks in and are seen, would end, as would any possibility of that child waiting three hours for treatment while people were being seen for heroin overdoses.
All of those things would fall under the heading of what TR called "trust busting". There would also be some system for caring the truly indigent, but the need and cost would be far less than at present.
By far the biggest item is that first one. I don't know the exact numbers but if you add every cost involved in our present out-of-control lawyering, it has to be a major fraction if not more than half of our medical costs. The trial lawyers' guild being one of the two major pillars of financial support for the democrat party is the basic reason nobody is saying anything about that part of the problem.
How about, 'nothing'?
how about with nothing
Whoi told them to replace it????? GOP...your job in the next Congress is to REPEAL the damned monstosity and put the brakes on obama’s anti-American agenda. PERIOD!!!
Who told them to replace it????? GOP...your job in the next Congress is to REPEAL the damned monstrosity and put the brakes on obama’s anti-American agenda. PERIOD!!!
common sense solutions
Start with Whole Foods, CEO, John Mackey’s ideas.
You will NEVER control costs unless patients are physically and fiscally responsible.
Repeal is the operative word here.
After repeal, instead of comming up with some canned plan to shove down our throats like the Democrats did, how about we actually have a real debate about what to do?
Personally, I think it should be repeal and IMPROVE THE CURRENT SYSTEM that has worked for decades.
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