Three months have passed. Where’s the GOP’s health plan?

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/three-months-have-passed-wheres-the-gops-health-plan/2011/03/28/AFVjTUCE_blog.html

Three months have passed. Where’s the GOP’s health plan?
By Jonathan Bernstein


Exactly three months ago today, House Republicans promised that they would follow up on their vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act by offering their own solutions to replace it. In a USA Today Op ed on January 20th, they promised to hold hearings, draft legislation, and promote specific remedies to the health care problems they agreed need to be addressed.

We’re still waiting.

The January Op ed came right after the House vote to repeal Obama’s health reform law, and in it, Republicans pledged that repeal was only the opening move in a repeal-and-replace agenda:

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Granted, the House Republican budget doesn’t ignore health care. It would make dramatic changes to Medicare in the long-term (while flip-flopping on health reform’s Medicare Advantage cuts that Republicans campaigned on last year). But that does nothing at all to fulfill the specific GOP pledges of “prioritizing affordability, improving transparency, and creating a true, functioning marketplace for health insurance.” Nor does it do anything about pre-existing conditions or “promoting healthier lifestyles.”

And yet Republicans promised to come up with specific ideas to do all these things as part of their vow to repeal and replace. That’s what they ran on in 2010 — not on slashing Medicaid and turning Medicare into a voucher program.

Hey, reporters! Isn’t it time to press Republican leaders what happened to “replace”?

[JuniperLea]

1. And what about those jobs?

[UrbScotty]

4. They created one! $520/hr lawyer to fight anti-DOMA lawsuits!

See?

:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. They meant their own. Everyone else can go pound sand.

[calimary]

13. Beat me to it!

Just exactly where ARE the jobs then?

[blueclown]

2. Presumably...

their plan would be the same as their federal budget plan for Medicare, which would be to offer a subsidy to every American to purchase their own health insurance coverage on an exchange.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

[Turbineguy]

3. Haven't you been reading

all the threads today about the grisly and horrific murders?

That's the GOP health plan working for YOU!

[treestar]

6. They have shown their plan!

Wasn't it Alan Grayson who told us about it? Die quickly.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. These slick bastards will wait until the economy improves on it's own, and

then jump in front of the parade claiming credit for the "miraculous GOP inspired recovery"

Just watch and see..........

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. One word = privatization

[TheKentuckian]

9. Gingrich and Dole put forward the Heritage Foundation's plan in response to the Clinton initiative

Obama signed it into law.

[lunatica]

10. Hurry up and die is their health plan

What more do you want out of them?!

[Armstead]

11. Same place as the Democrat's plan.....More of the same

[babylonsister]

12. Baloney. Tell that to the people who have benefited already. nt

[Armstead]

16. The relatively small number, while many others are thrown to the wolves

[babylonsister]

17. Fine. Support the rethugs for doing nothing vs. the Dems for

attempting to make it better. Bravo.

[Armstead]

18. I don;t support the repugs approach.....But the Democrats have muffed it

[benboot]

14. Appears he should have checked their web site..

http://www.gop.gov/pledge/healthcare


IN PROGRESS: On January 20, 2011, the House passed H. Res. 9, a resolution instructing House committees to develop legislation replacing the job-killing health care law. Committees are currently doing their work to hold hearings and examine solutions to lower costs, increase access to quality care, and strengthen the doctor-patient relationship.
Vote Result • Text of the Resolution
Enact Medical Liability Reform
Skyrocketing medical liability insurance rates have distorted the practice of medicine, routinely forcing doctors to order costly and often unnecessary tests to protect themselves from lawsuits, often referred to as "defensive medicine." We will enact common-sense medical liability reforms to lower costs, rein in junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine.
Purchase Health Insurance across State Lines
Americans residing in a state with expensive health insurance plans are locked into those plans and do not currently have an opportunity to choose a lower cost option that best meets their needs. We will allow individuals to buy health care coverage outside of the state in which they live.
Expand Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are popular savings accounts that provide costeffective health insurance to those who might otherwise go uninsured. We will improve HSAs by making it easier for patients with high-deductible health plans to use them to obtain access to quality care. We will repeal the new health care law, which prevents the use of these savings accounts to purchase over-the-counter medicine.
Ensure Access for Patients with Pre-Existing Conditions
Health care should be accessible for all, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses. We will expand state high-risk pools, reinsurance programs and reduce the cost of coverage. We will make it illegal for an insurance company to deny coverage to someone with prior coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition, eliminate annual and lifetime spending caps, and prevent insurers from dropping your coverage just because you get sick. We will incentivize states to develop innovative programs that lower premiums and reduce the number of uninsured Americans.
Permanently Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
We will establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion. This prohibition would go further and enact into law what is known as the Hyde Amendment as well as ban other instances of federal subsidies for abortion services. We will also enact into law conscience protections for health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and hospitals.

[babylonsister]

15. 'In progress' does not mean accomplished. That's what they

indicated they were providing; have you heard a peep about any of this, except the stoopid abortion issue? But so kind of you to defend the rethugs.

[JoePhilly]

21. That's not a plan ... its barely a PAMPHLET.

enjoy your stay.

[opihimoimoi]

19. The GOPers are like Charlie Sheen, Trump, Brietbart, Van der Sloot, and other

Bull shitters..

Evasive excuses when caught in a lie/tough question....

always lying their way out

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/04/breitbart-accuses-msnbc-of-being-controlled-by-soros-podesta-ayers-and-media-matters/

heres a sample from Brietbart clip....notice the Trump Pattern of denial

The Baggers operate the same....

[rasputin1952]

20. GOP Health Plan...

Go to hardware store, purchase shovel, find nice place to dig grave, get in and wait.