GOP Health Care Alternative Bill Online. First Step in Moving Towards Consortium Based Health Pools & Away from Mandates Forced On Citizens by Employers, Union Bosses, and the State.
The best interview you may ever see on how to help bring down health care costs and get people covered, and believe it or not it was on MSNBC. The anchor here finally asked the right questions; questions that aren’t partisan gotchas but questions that are designed to look out for the folks.
The host asks a key question in the interview; why is it that we are subject to the limits our employers, the state or the union bosses put on us when it comes to picking our own health care plan? He hit the nail on the head. The time for letting someone else have so much control over our own health care choices needs to come to an end. It is time to move away from the state, union, employer based insurance to a consortium based series of health care pools that people can buy into.
The new 219 page GOP health care bill is the first step to move in that direction by incentivizing the creation of health care pools across state lines which are now prohibited by the government. The bill also creates and provides incentives for the states to create a guaranteed high risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions.
The GOP alternative removes the government barrier to buying health insurance across state lines, lets you have more choice as to the pools that you can buy into, has bogus lawsuit reform and more. The summary of the bill can be found HERE and you can examine the full text of the bill HERE.
The CBO says that this new 219 page GOP alternative bill will lower premiums by 10%, lower the deficit by 68 billion and help more people get insurance. This bill is not the “be all end all” in health insurance reform, but it is a very smart, incremental first step. Most importantly it doesn’t do any damage.
The current 2000 page Pelosi health bill has the legal mandate word “shall” in it 3,425 times. It doesn’t take a genius to see that such a bill does not expand flexibility in making your health care choices.
Cross posted at IUSB Vision.
The progressives have one thing in mind and one thing only.
They want free health care for the poor. They want health care for all. They dont want a soul in this country to be unprotected.
They will settle for nothing less. Health care reform to them is not about lowering costs or whatever….its about healthcare for the poor….which means massive COST to the American taxpayers…cause their just aint nothing free in life.
Its another means of keeping the poor perpetually poor and keeping them dependent upon their brand of politics.
I honestly believe that they could give a flying flip about the poor if all the poor voted for Republicans. But since they vote for Democrats they love them and they intend to do all they can to keep them really COMFORTABLE in their POVERTY.
That is progressive healthcare reform in a nutshell. Always has been and always will be.
Combine it with their agenda on cap and trade and you can see their agenda is to drive America into the poor house because they……and I believe this sincerely……they hate America(you can see it in their Corporate Welfare disdain, their antiwar protests, their joy at Obama world apology tour)…..they really do and Im tired of the alinskization of that reference.
Progressives do not like America as it stands(See Michael Moore’s movies)…..their goal is change all right but its not the change that most of us want to ultimately see happen.
Our only hope is Moderate…..NON RADICAL DEMOCRATS….they are our hope. They are our champions. Its up to them.
I love it when the GOP does something intelligent. I just wish they’d done it when they had a majority and a chance to actually pass it. Of course, their failure to do so when they did have the numbers is a major part of the reason that they’re now a minority…