Posted on 11/05/2025 3:48:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
From The Griffin Comprehensive Health Care Cost Reform Plan:
HOSPITAL COST REDUCTION [by 2028]
Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings.
INTERSTATE DRUG PLANS
I would allow Federal PPACA exchanges to offer Interstate Class Drug Plans,
exempt from state control that cover under contract at the time of policy issue at least:
1. 80% of all FDA-approved recombinant drugs by key active entity
2. 80% of all key FDA breakthrough chemical active entities under patent as of January 1 of the coverage year
used in a drug approved by the FDA by August 1 prior
3. 80% of all key chemical active entities under patent as of January 1 of the coverage year
used in a drug approved by the FDA by August 1 prior
4. 90% of all WHO “essential” drugs
Plans with lower percentages could be sold, but not on an federally subsidized exchange, only directly or through an agent.
The high percentage but not 100% drug cost coverage system would allow for genuine negotiation between drug plans and drug companies. Drug plans would have an incentive to try to buy drugs from drug companies and drug companies would have an incentive to make deals to make sales.
Formulary drugs would locked in for the policy year and be supplied at on an all-the doctors prescribe basis. Drug plans would typically contract for entire product lines. The co-pays would be roughly equal to mere manufacturing cost. The premiums would be used for R&D cost recovery.
If drug company overplays its hand with one drug plan, it can still get its products on the formulary of another plan.
For individual and family plans, drugs not in the formulary need not be covered at all.
Group plans might issue vouchers to insureds at plan set amounts for out-of-formulary drugs. These vouchers might average 80% of average drug class (recombinant large volume, recombinant small volume, etc.) Canadian maximum price. The average would have to be stated. Let the patients wave the voucher at Walgreen’s or CVS, or access a drug company voucher redemption webpage. The drug companies will probably gladly take $400 for a two week’s supply that might cost them $120. The insurer might offer more in exchange for drug company stock of like value.
The Interstate Class Drug Plans would not in the early years be PPACA subsidy eligible.
As with Medicare Part D, a plan shopping system should get developed.
The only reason Cornyn isn’t on that list is because he has a difficult primary ahead of him.
list of cowards
Correct.
The Republicans should use the Senate Rules to force the Democrats to conduct actual filibuster speeches on the Senate floor.
The silly rules that permit Senators to file paperwork to threaten a filibuster did not exist fifty years ago. If Schumer and Company want to shutdown the government, the Republicans should make them work for it.
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Exactly.
You want to filibuster something, start talking because when you’re done the bill is moving forward.
They probably changed it to protect all these Senators that are old, lazy, complacent, & lack stamina.
Can’t they modify an existing bill through reconciliation to bypass the filibuster like Democrats do?
The late Chuck Harder had it right decades ago:
A cast of characters on a stage putting on a play according to a script written by their owners.
Except these characters are pathetically lacking in character.
Chuckles once called it the "cooling saucer".
Oh, they’ll turn the spigot on when it’s Obama or Biden but Trump’s budget? They created the trillion dollar spending program for those commies. But Trump is supposed to have a bake sale I guess.
All RINOs. Sad.
Well, the Senate said...not so fast....we have to talk about it.
Washington was furious and blurted...Then why am I here...got up...walked out.
Washington didn't think they were so "cool".
“GOP Senators that are a No on nuking the filibuster (so far):
Susan Collins
Lisa Murkowski
Mitch McConnell
John Kennedy
Lindsey Graham
Joni Ernst
Thom Tillis
Roger Marshall
John Thune
Jon Barrasso
John Curtis”
Democrats who are NO on ending the filibuster (if they had power):
Manchin
Sinema
(both of the above departed last year)
The Democrats would end it in a heartbeat.
But are there still ANY democrat senators publicly against and reliable for voting no on ending the filibuster?
When people make this point I am forced to ask “What makes you think the Dems won’t nuke the filibuster immediately? Your assumption of protection is threadbare.
If they keep the government closed long enough citizens will discover they can live without government. That’s the difficult timing for the politicians, close long enough to get what they want, but keep closed too long and citizens will discover that government is unnecessary….. tic, tic….
Republicans in the Senate have to plan ahead to being in the minority, and giving up the filibuster, considered from that point of view, would be very unwise.
If Thanksgiving travel is disrupted by the shutdown, the party in the majority is going to pay a very big price.
Catastrophic health policies are very economical and protect Americans from any significant medical expenses. The high deductible policy is less expensive even if the holder needs to meet the deductible.
After the first year there is enough money banked to withdraw for medical expenses below the deductible although leaving it to grow is smarter.
Get the government completely out of healthcare. Let the states cover catastrophic safety net policies for their poor. Insist that any insurer that offers policies in a state offer high deductable HSA plans. Voilà
The Dems, of course, when they win the midterms will end the filibuster. And so, thune has destroyed the Republic with his broad minded stupidity. The Dems will keep the govt closed until they succeed in convincing enough voters that Trump and the Republicans are responsible for this. Which they are, because they refuse to end the filibuster.
Remove the filibuster thune, pass much needed election reforms and give the president the tools he needs to restore our Republic. If you don’t, may your name go down in history as the man who refused to stop the Marxist democrats from ending the shining city on the hill forever!
I could not agree more. Sometimes people need to wake up and look reality in the face instead of clinging to rose tinted fantasies. We are at war and our Country is at stake.
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