Just saying.
We should really not criticize dems on this issue.
There are a million things to criticize dems on. Virtually every single issue, in the world. Every one, the dems are on the wrong side.
Free speech. Media bias. Our liberal-infested education monstrosity. The GOP is right about America’s awesome military, and the millions of patriotic Americans everywhere. Our historic level of personal freedom. American business interests (American, not foreign). Gun rights. On every single issue, the GOP is far, far superior to what the dems continue to parrot mindlessly, as a massive statist block.
But on medical care, the GOP has been completely absent.
Nowhere. At all.
This is one subject the GOP should shut up about. They have done nothing for the entire last generation.
Not one thing.
Come up with a better idea. Until you do, just do not say a single word.
That is my strong, opinion.
Our medical system is an extremely expensive mess. Millions cannot even afford care, and just go to emergency when things get bad.
That is not a healthcare system, a country like America deserves.
It is utterly sold-out to the profession.
Obamacare was a result of that. It was something. You may strongly disagree with it, but where is even one Republican alternative.
What we had, was a hugely expensive mess.
GOP needs to say how they would improve things. Not simply criticize Obamacare.
How would we do it better?
Well said!
Simple!! How about the Government stay completely out of the healthcare business in its entirety! I’ve worked for one of the largest financial firms in the world. Obamacare was corporations way out and saddling more cost on their employees so more is returned to the shareholder. Why you ask? Because the alternative is Obamacare and they know it!
I long for the days of having my healthcare the way it was when Obamacare was not around! When 20$ took care of a doc visit and 200$ on the birth of my children. Now I must submit to so called “wellness programs” or suffer higher premiums and out of pocket is thousands now.
The Repukes shouldn’t come up with a damned thing! Leave my healthcare alone! I want the government out of my life period!
Doing nothing is not good. But it's still better than ruining our entire healthcare system. You have obviously haven't been screwed over by ACA. I have a friend (who was pro-ACA, by the way) who had cancer. He couldn't work on chemo, because, chemo make is so you can't work. Because he couldn't work he was kicked off his plan, so guess what, now he's on the free version, so no more cancer treatment.
A better idea: Remove the government entirely from Medicine and Insurance beyond guaranteeing weights and measures as the Constitution prescribes and by extension monitoring purity of product. Costs would plummet and research would skyrocket. Most of the cost of modern “healthcare” is salaries of bureaucrats and the costs of the incredibly extensive record keeping required and the regulation of everything involved by the Government.
We can have a free market, that is the GOP alternative!
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But on medical care, the GOP has been completely absent.
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This is one subject the GOP should shut up about.
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GOP needs to say how they would improve things. Not simply criticize Obamacare.
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How would we do it better?
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How about those of us who despise the gop. Can we criticize Obamacare?
>> But on medical care, the GOP has been completely absent.
>> Nowhere. At all.
>> Come up with a better idea. Until you do, just do not say a single word.
Spare us your ignorant indignation.
For decades, litigation reform, HSAs, and inter-state competition have been ongoing battles against the commie Democrats.
Why does the government have to be involved in our healthcare at all?
> GOP needs to say how they would improve things. Not simply criticize Obamacare.
I totally agree.
It’s been 7 years.
We knew this was coming.
Show us the “replacement” we’ve been hearing about or shut up and fix what we have.
Trump has position papers published on his web site
At least as a candidate he lays out things he would try to do to get started on this mess
If you say he is not “ specific enough” then compare his plan point by point with Paul Ryan’s or Hillary’s plan and get back to us
And no this “ mess” did not start before obamacare
Ask tens of millions of Amerucans who used to have affordable health insurance or who used to have employer paid health insurance - aka the middle class
For everyone who was not served by the past there were specific market based solutions that could have been tried, with some improved govt backed programs
But no
Obamacare was designed by people hostile to individual liberty and hostile to the middle class - Jonathan Gruber is now saying the solution to the problem is a bigger more coercive tax penalty
Rebuplicans had better ideas. I read them around the time of the Contract with America — tort reform, Medical Savings Accounts, waste reduction, more generics, fraud busting, competition, commonization, wellness.
We know who always scuttles this — attorneys and fed departments. BIG money to lose control of if we really fix this in our favor.