(R-NEBR) Sasse: ‘Now is the time’ for a GOP plan on health care

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — Ben Sasse kicked off his run for the U.S. Senate by declaring that the health care law must be killed in order for America to survive.

Sasse is still pushing that message of total repeal, but he also continues to criticize fellow Republicans for putting nothing on the table to counter the law.

“My party does a bad job on the empathy gap,” Sasse said in a World-Herald interview. “We do a bad job of explaining that we’re also for reducing the number of uninsured. I just don’t think more Washington bureaucratic power is the pathway to that.”

Sasse isn’t on the key Senate committees that handle health care policy, but he’s been working to have a voice on the issue all the same.

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“I don’t think we should fix Obamacare, but I don’t think we should just be screaming repeal,” Ben Sasse said. “We should actually be talking about replacing.”

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[lastlib]

1. No, the time was TWENTY YEARS AGO, fucker! You missed it!

Now it's ours, thanks to President Obama, and NO F*CKING THANKS to the Pukes!

(actually, the time was twenty-eight years ago, before health insurance lifetime caps killed my sister, but I won't push it for now. DICK.)

[CBHagman]

6. I'm so sorry about your sister.

It's horrifying that the discussion of health care has been drawn away from the real people whose lives it affects.

[CTyankee]

13. "He has yet to offer specific legislation and said he’s not sure if he will."

Quel disappointment...

[lastlib]

30. Quelle surprise.........!

Of course he won't offer a plan. He subscribes to the plan his party has given us all along--GOPDon'tCare.

[CTyankee]

33. what surprises me is how clueless he and other republicans are to how they sound...

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tone deaf to the max. I thought for a while that they learned from their mistakes in the past but my god, they're doubling down on stupidity and the worst side of their characters (don't know if there are any "good sides." tho).

Wow.

[groundloop]

2. How about 'Medicare' for All???

THAT would be a good improvement over the ACA. Anything else would be a step backward. We certainly can't afford to go back to lifetime caps (talk about a 'death panel'), denying care for pre-existing conditions, etc. etc. etc.

[duhneece]

15. Medicare for ALL

How sweet the sound...

[marble falls]

3. There IS a better health program than the ACA - single payer. And he.....

won't like that one either.

[malthaussen]

4. Why not? It's only been almost 50 years since Nixon proposed it.

I daresay, there were radicals in the GOP who thought it was a good idea even before then.

-- Mal

[candelista]

5. We already have the GOP plan: Romneycare = Hillarycare = Obamacare.

[Bryce Butler]

7. I was thinking the same thing

[lastlib]

11. It's called GOPDon'tCare!

. .

[candelista]

12. LOL.

[CanonRay]

8. Your party does a bad job because you really don't give a shit.

Empathy gap my ass. They could give a crap about the uninsured.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. The GOP plan is always clear on ANY issue

Don't read their lips, read their record

Read between the lines and gaps

They believe in a world of no government, business rules

It's as good as Europe, 1520

++++++++++++++++

Restrict the benefits of society, whatever they are, to those who have
the means, that means assets and cash, to pay for them.

All others are socialist heathen.

If you can't pay, you made bad choices. Get working. Can't work?
Bleed your family. They don't have it? Borrow.

Can't borrow? Die.

Next!

[HassleCat]

10. Do the opposite of what Obama does (eom)

[Liberalagogo]

14. All those words....

and not a hint of what their so called "replacement plan" (if any) is.

Sasse....either put up or STFU.

[HoosierCowboy]

16. The Republican Plan

Take two aspirin and don't call me in the morning... "that will be $500 please".
There is no Republican health care plan, has no one figured that out yet?

[lark]

17. He got one part right.

R's do have a HUGE empathy gap, as in they have zero. That's why they haven't come up with a plan that with keep the previously uninsured, insured. They don't give a crap, they don't want to spend money on the poor and could care less if they die. Not their problem, not their kind of folks. This guy is either a moron or he's just lying like they all do.

[kairos12]

18. Empathy Gap. He makes it sound like you buy empathy at the mall.

[jmowreader]

32. The only way they'll ever have empathy is if they could buy some

I must take this opportunity to dispel a very nasty lie - that the GOP has no plan to replace Obamacare with. The truth is, they have a plan. It was focus group tested among the GOP's most loyal supporters - corporations - and received rave reviews. The problem with it is, they can't tell you what it is before they get a rubber stamp in the White House to implement it because premature revelation would cause the immediate cessation of people voting for Republicans...or in plain English, if they admit what their plan really is they'll lose Idaho in the next election.

Here's what they want.

1. They will make health insurance "more affordable" by giving everyone a tax cut to buy insurance, and canceling the subsidies found in Obama's law. The problem with this plank: If you take a guy who pays $850 in taxes and offer him a $2500 health insurance plan, even cutting his taxes to zero won't enable him to buy health insurance much less pay the deductibles and copays he'll have to shell out for to be able to use the insurance he couldn't afford in the first place.

2. They will then make it even LESS affordable by allowing health insurers to sell across state lines...which means they'll sell it across the border of a coal mining state. If you thought "selling insurance across state lines" really meant "everyone can buy it from Blue Cross of Hawaii, which has the best rates in America, regardless of their state of residence"...well son, you'll be more than pleased to know Obamacare pays for crack rehab.

3. They'll make doctoring less expensive by eliminating the possibility of anyone suing for malpractice using "tort reform" and "loser pays" techniques.

4. And they will completely eliminate any mandatory coverage or profit caps that keep insurance companies from making as close to 100 percent profit as they possibly can.

[cindyperry]

19. still waiting on their

suggestions anything anybody?

[SoapBox]

20. Just...Die...Quickly

I thought that was their plan.

[Springslips]

21. Let me guess. . .

Tax credits and deregulation--allowing insurance to cover over State borders thereby allowing the most unethical, immoral companies to cheep out on their crappy plans-- no thanks!

[Vinca]

22. Dear Mr. Sasse - I don't know how to break this to you, but . . .

"Obamacare" IS the Republican plan.

[area51]

31. +1 n/t

[Red1]

23. Don't even

need to read it....

You pay back, with additional taxes, every thing you got from obama care..

guaranteed..

[Moral Compass]

24. Please...go on

[lastlib]

25. Please proceed, Senator-wannabe........

("GOP plan" -- . do I dare hold my breath? NOT!)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. He could ask Mitt Romney

[Depaysement]

27. They already have a plan

Get rich or die.

[YOHABLO]

28. The ACA (Obama Care) is the GOP plan. They just don't want to admit it. We want universal coveage.

For all.

[onecaliberal]

29. The GOP plan is the same as it has always been.

If you are ill, hurry up and fucking die.