[Bratch]

I'd like to see how the health care market would operate in a true free market environment.

Unfortunately, in our litigious society, that's probably a pipe dream.

[allendale]

Government heath care spending is a cornucopia of endless demands, entitlements and expectations.The government spends hundreds of billions on services of marginal benefit,futile care and defensive medicine. The politicians have promised the people more than the country can afford to pay.

[BitWielder1]

Doesn't sound one bit conservative to me.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Conservatives believe seniors could shop for health insurance, as they do for groceries, to drive down prices. The states, freed from excessive federal oversight, could similarly drive down costs. That’s absolute fantasy.”

The key sign that Ryan's going no-where gimmick plan (3rd rollout of same plan) is not a bit serious nor is it a real plan, is that he says we need to pass a bill now that (starts) doing this in 10 years, 10 years after passage!.

I keep posting that Ryan needs to come up with a plan that starts right now, that would force him to be more serious about it. Claiming something that starts cutting/reforming a specific program 10 years later will save money and provide better service, in 10 years is like promising the tooth fairy will leave you a gold brick for your tooth 10 years from now, worse yet he claims it will jump-start the economy now.

The GOP Koolaid drinkers go into a tizzy when I suggest this :” WTF???Ryan balances the budget in 10 years. That's not good enough for you??? Its better than the Os plan. I hate brain-dead Conservative idealists like you! You are why Mitt lost, and McCain too.”

Look, Ryan's silly talking points went no-where in 2011 and less than that with Mitt in 2012 so why cant he try being serious about this for a change?

[old curmudgeon]

Two problems with the author’s theory.

First, his solution is as Marxist as obumbler care.

Second, there is not one single thing the government does that it does as well as a private entity would do.

Compare Social Security with any insurance company annuity.

Compare the post office with FedEx or UPS.

Compare the VA with any Catholic hospital.

[kingu]

Any conversation on health care reform that doesn’t start with ‘first we shoot the lawyers’ is doomed to soak the people for trillions. Without real tort reform, it will always get more expensive each year.

[Vendome]

What FKNG elections are we losing¿¿¿

If Romney were not on the ticket we’d have gained greater majorities in both houses.

His magical underwear cost us what should have been mathematicaly and absolutely probable increases in both houses.

He, alone, is the sole reason we are in our current gasping position.

Didn’t need to happen but for Willards self serving ambition.

[texasmountainman]

Morici looks and acts like Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor. I don’t think he’s ever worked anywhere other than a university or the government, unless you count the commercials he does for Kyocera copiers.

[DannyTN]

I agree, Ryan and his budgets have hurt the GOP. They are wrong headed.

The biggest thing you need to do to fix the budget is get the U.S. economy back on track and Ryan doesn't have a clue about how to do that.

Shadowstats.com still shows U.S. unemployment close to 25%!!!

Instead of tackling the economic crisis, Ryan is using the crisis as a means to attack healthcare and safety nets. His approach is not going to help the economy and is going to cause fellow Americans much unneccessary pain.

And Ryan's distraction from tackling the true issues, is going to drive the U.S. deeper in debt, hurting all Americans not just those currently unemployed.

It's time to restore the import tariffs which have fallen to historic lows of just 1%. And bring our jobs back. It will cost consumers more, but America will be employed and will be richer for it.

Cheap consumer goods are not cheap when it means we are all quickly facing unemployment.

[BfloGuy]

Sometimes markets don’t work

This guy is no conservative. And he's wrong. Markets always work when they're allowed to.