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What an absolute travesty. Rather than do what is appropriate - to NOT have Washington DC involved AT ALL in health insurance, the "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" GOP decides to go along with the premise that health insurance needs to be brokered by Washington. This is an idiotic proposal that uses "tax credits" - meaning WE THE PEOPLE have already paid and now WASHINGTON, once again, gets to pick the winners and losers. It is no wonder at all why the GOP is losing. It is crap "alternatives" like this that offer no alternative. Where is the same GOP raising holy hell over the illegal activites of a President making unilateral actions on a bill that the Supreme Court has said - is nothing more than a tax???
1 posted on 01/27/2014 10:27:09 AM PST by Solson
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To: Solson
DEFINITELY A MUST READ ...and a MUST SHARE with people who say there is no republican alternative.
2 posted on 01/27/2014 10:38:14 AM PST by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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I haven’t read it, so I will be able to critique the proposal once I do. The problem is that the federal government is already massively intertwined with medical service and insurance. Medicare and Medicaid are a primary driver of the problems we have. Those problems need to be identified and fixed. We can’t act like the government should not act at all because there is no stomach among any group, including the vast majority of our own conservative base who want Medicare to be gone. The government is already knee deep before Obamacare. That isn’t going to change even if Obamacare is eliminated tomorrow. There is a place...and a necessity to fix this situation. More government is most definitely not the solution, but that doesn’t mean doing nothing.


5 posted on 01/27/2014 10:42:06 AM PST by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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A proposal to get tax money back in the hands of individuals is a far better plan than Obamacare.

Plus, this would introduce millions to shopping for their own insurance (previously covered by employers) which will lower costs thru competition. This idea has been in the works for a long time and it's a good one.

6 posted on 01/27/2014 10:52:30 AM PST by what's up
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It was sort of inevitable that after January 1 when some Americans got insured by it that the GOP would stop talking about repeal.

That is because a repeal would be seen as ‘taking away Americans health care’ which is what got so many mad at Obamacare.

How well they will fare with the battle of the national health care plans remains to be seen.

Obama will just reject the GOP ideas.


7 posted on 01/27/2014 10:54:20 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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RE :”This is an idiotic proposal that uses “tax credits” - meaning WE THE PEOPLE have already paid and now WASHINGTON, once again, gets to pick the winners and losers”

I don't like the phrase tax credits.

9 posted on 01/27/2014 10:56:14 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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Sigh.....government creates the problem, fixes it and us lemmings are to be grateful for the fix. How about limiting Fedzilla to its Constitutional restraints?
12 posted on 01/27/2014 11:17:58 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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For what it’s worth, this proposal falls short in one crucial area. The Federal Government has absolutely NO BUSINESS at all in being involved in our healthcare.

I do not want, need or desire a “Republican Alternative” to OBAMACIDE.

What part of this is so hard to understand?


14 posted on 01/27/2014 11:21:00 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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What you are NOT seeing is that the top legislators in the US have decided to follow the commands of their corporate sponsors and usher in the New World Order. It is just over the horizon and corporate America is demanding that the legislators bring it forth.

Have you ever seen the chart that shows how many International corporations own all the other smaller national corporations?


16 posted on 01/27/2014 11:32:55 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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Why would people who pay no taxes now, want tax credits??


18 posted on 01/27/2014 11:46:14 AM PST by MNnice
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“We can do socialism better than Obama.”

signed,
The Republicans


21 posted on 01/27/2014 12:11:14 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With God all things are possible.)
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to NOT have Washington DC involved AT ALL in health insurance

You are wrong. Period.

One of the actually-enumerated powers of the Congress is to regulate interstate commerce. That we still allow the fifty states to prohibit the purchase of insurance across state lines is ridiculous.

This is something the Republicans should address.

23 posted on 01/27/2014 4:59:17 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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