Posted on 08/16/2013 7:18:08 PM PDT by JSDude1
To be a credible opponent, the GOP must unite around a plan of its own.
At his August 9 news conference, Obama spoke with journalists in the White House East Room about Republicans and Obamacare.
“At least they used to say, ‘Well, we’re going to replace it with something better,’” Obama said. “There’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.”
Unless Republicans want Obama to keep spouting such nonsense, they must craft and at least pass through the GOP House a bill that would scrap Obamacare and put something far better — and Republican — in its place.
Republicans are 1,000 percent correct to try to defund, repeal, and replace Obamacare. With its employer mandate postponed for a year, most health-insurance exchanges far from ready for their October 1 debut, medical premiums zooming to the Moon, and its ten-year price tag soaring from $940 billion at enactment to $1.8 trillion today, Obamacare has become both unworkable and a knee-slapping mockery
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Get government out of the way. Dump Ted Kennedy’s HMO model and let doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, drug companies and medical suppliers compete on the open market.
How about the US Constitution?
We are making progress. In the last election, Romney tried this “repeal and replace” ruse, and few bought it. Their sophistry is falling on increasingly deaf ears.
Once someone shows folks how the con-man’s scams work, they don’t work any more.
Intellectual bankruptcy.
Without reading the comments I can see how this will be received. NRO is talking political reality.
I always believed and still do that the GOPs repeals were going no-where and that a more promising and better approach would be to let the states completely opt out of the Obama care and the taxes if they choose, and to require that it be deficit neutral for those who stay in. I posted this idea many times starting in 2011.
Let the Blue states be the test wabbits if they want.,Much harder for Obama to argue against,
The current approach of total repeals is just a over-repeated show and not happening.
Is this a trick question? They had a better alternative before obama. They have always had a better alternative. Get mindless government twits out of the picture and let the market handle it. Send every government leech out to find a real job.
The GOP had one, I believe, about the time Obamacare was voted on. It involved catastrophic coverage and nothing more. People would’ve still been responsible for their own health care costs, up to the point the castrophic coverage kicked in. But it provided some coverage for costly emergencies. And I think it eliminated the preexisting condition problem.
The best of both worlds.
...in a free and open competitive market for healthcare that is of the scope, quality, and cost that The Consumer can decide the value theirof.
Healthcare should be nothing different from any other consumer choice... When you go to the grocery store you have options... buy the Store Brand frozen Bagged corn on sale... or the Organic, Gluten-free, Free-Range, Fair Trade corn on the cob. YOUR NEED, YOUR CHOICE.
What we have with healthcare insurance, is price fixing... and no sense of value. The "insured" are the equivalent of SNAP Card Surfer Douchebags going right for the Lobster.
It should be like getting a haircut... Joe Blow will cut your hair downtown on Saturday morning for 7 bucks and you toss him 3 bucks for a tip... OR you can WAIT until 10:30... and go to the foo foo salon (if they have any openings), and have your hair shampooed, afterwhich the tattooed hussy will rub her tits all up and down the back of your neck as she snips away for 20 minutes yacking about her tattoos or nipple piercings or whatever vapid crap these 20 year olds do to get you through a $40 salon treatment.
It's all about having free markets and price/service competition.
Nipple piercings aside... I'd rather stop at the newsstand and get a paper and a cup of coffee, then go to Joe the Barber... spend 10 bucks, and then hit the hardware store... then when it's not even 9am, I'll be back at home spit-shining my boots, changing out my transmission, target shooting, or whatever I feel like.
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I’m going to mildly disagree with you, Jim. I think the biggest problems are state mandates and restricted free-market principles (specifically in healthcare). The federal government is suppose to ensure that interstate markets are free and that states aren’t setting up barriers for competition (which they are).
I’m not familiar with the particular history you speak of...about how SCOTUS ruled on Feds and insurance, while congress passed a law to give it back to the states. Please inform me what case or link I could look at.
Well, my point is it is unconstitutional for the federal government to be involved at all in mandating healthcare for anyone.
‘What the...?? We don’t need no stinkin alternatives. Shut down the government till Obama squeals is the alternative. Take that alternative Obama.
Those Cowards. I will never vote for them again... unless...what?? You say that I said that just four years ago?? Noooo. Mee?? This time I really mean it,”
The “plan” is free market capitalism. Period.
Dang, I forgot to mention impeachment.
Go back to where we were - just provide a few additional billion to cover those several million who weren’t then covered by Medicaid because they were too stupid or lazy to sign up - and this time if they don’t sign up, start penalizing - excuse me - taxing them for their failure - the other thirty or so million who had no coverage were self-insurers - many young - who felt they didn’t have to buy insurance, and shouldn’t be forced to do so under Obamacare.....
Here's a "Republican" substitute that we could try - letting the free market work in healthcare like it works in so many other things?
OK: “All federal, State, and local regulations prohibiting free enterprise of doctors, medical staff, hospitals, and insurance companies is hereby prohibited.”
It is exactly this sort of thinking that has ruined our party, and our country.
I despise anyone who goes down these roads.
Here is a shocker: I deal with direct costs for medications and we all pay as much as 100 times the cost wholesale. On average the costs retail over wholesale is not less than 5 times. Tablets that cost $2 I have seen cost nearly $100 in a hospital or pharmacy, such as Zyvox.
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