What is the Republican plan for health care...?

...and how did the CBO score it?

2013-09-29T11:51:47Z

I'm not talking about simply defunding the law. What is the specific bill that the Republican-dominated House passed, and what did the Congressional Budget Office say about it?

2013-09-29T12:00:06Z

"expertgal" -- that's BS. The House is controlled by the Republicans. They can "present" and vote on any bill they want.

2013-09-29T12:09:54Z

The Republican alternative will have helped 3 million people secure coverage, which is barely keeping up with population growth. Compare that to the Democratic bill, which covers 36 million more people and cuts the uninsured population to 4 percent.
Oh, look, there IS a bill, H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act.

And here's what the CBO said about it:

"The Republican alternative will have helped 3 million people secure coverage, which is barely keeping up with population growth. Compare that to the Democratic bill, which covers 36 million more people and cuts the uninsured population to 4 percent.

"According to CBO, the GOP's alternative will shave $68 billion off the deficit in the next 10 years. The Democrats, CBO says, will slice $104 billion off the deficit.

"The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 billion more than the Republican plan."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/congr

expertgal2013-09-29T11:52:11Z

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They have one, but Democrats won't let them present it.
I'd like to hear about it.

tehabwa2013-09-29T20:04:56Z

The only "plan" they've ever suggested involved preventing anyone from suing for malpractice for more than a 35 cent settlement.

This is just part of the general GOP plan to make the lives of everyone who isn't super-rich fit the Hobbsian description: nasty, brutish, and short.

They think ONLY the rich have any right to food, housing, healthcare, or education. They think ONLY those who get their income from investment should HAVE any income; that the people who do all the WORK should live on a cup of rice, and live in a lean-to built on toxic waste dumps.

mommanuke2013-09-29T18:57:08Z

They haven't ever passed one, but the ones they have suggested were first, the ACA, which was their plan in 1994 and the Heritage Foundation loved it. The current fantasy is that somehow saving insurance companies money by making it impossible to sue any doctor or health care facility and selling insurance across state lines will solve all the problems.

Texas did tort reform several years ago. Our costs are still climbing and we have the highest percentage of uninsured in the country. Selling across state lines would require some kind of national standard, because the reason a company sells where it does today is that some states have some rules and other states do not.

Socrates2013-09-30T19:14:54Z

This is kind of like having a government plan that nationalized grocery stores and then asking what the Republican "plan" for grocery stores should be.

Dr Yes level 9 since 19992013-09-29T22:49:10Z

They won't admit it but their followers will. I have heard them openly say, many times, "Die!" They are the ones who want to replace middle class, and working class, Americans with foreigners. The poor conned-servatives simply don't get it.

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