What's the Republican plan again?
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Congress Watch
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House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other obstructionists just held a press conference on the "Democratic Takeover of Health Care." (Policy note: 99% of households [pdf] and 96% of businesses [pdf] would not be affected by the proposed surcharge on the rich in the House bill.)
It's hardly worth mentioning to these folks that the House health plan introduced yesterday preserves your choice, so if you don't want to be on the public health insurance option, you don't have to. Still, they're intent on pushing the strawman. And so, they released this chart, purportedly showing the great complexity of the Democratic health care system:
Clearly, this is supposed to demonstrate vast complexity, but really, it just doesn't make sense, seeing as this is how our health care system operates now. Not really much different, right? If that's the best attack they've got, I think we'll be fine.
Of course, all of this begs the question: What is the Republican health plan again?
Using the same sophisticated charting techniques the Republicans use, Democrats have charted the Republican health plan, picture below:
Any questions?
Fix the one we have.The best in the world. Cut out the waste and insure the unisured. Problem solved.
Government doesn't know how to run anything.
Postal service versus FedEx and Ups are proof.
Post Office running millions in the RED
FedEX and UPS making profit.
There are three Republican created plans:
1) The "Health Care Freedom Act" (S. 1324),
2) The "Patients Choice Act (S.1099),
3) The "Empowering Patients First Act" (H.R.3400)
These bills would correct several of the problems with the current method of health care & insurance that exist today, including rooting out fraud & abuse, providing safety net insurance for high risk & poor people, reducing government regulations that make it difficult or impossible for people to get their own affordable health insurance, and improvements to HSA's.
On top of that, they would go into effect to begin addressing the problems immediately, not in 4 years (conveniently AFTER the next presidential election) like the "oh so important & urgent 'Obamacare' plan".
But since they would only seek to fix existing problems rather than increase government power & spending, the dems have buried all of them in committees, solely because they were created & introduced by Republicans.
Hay, can't admit that the R's have offered any alternative plans right?