Price Responds To Conservative Health Care Criticisms: It's A 'Work In Progress'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 7, 2017, 2:09 PM EDT

The secretary of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that House Republicans' health care proposal was “the beginning of the process,” but he maintained that it would keep costs down.

Secretary Tom Price responded to conservative groups who have called the proposal “Obamacare-lite,” among other things, by calling the it “the beginning of the process” and “a work in progress.”

“I think that this is the beginning of the process, and we look forward to working with them and others to make certain that again we come up with that process that aligns with the principles that we've defined, that they actually adhere to or agree with as well,” Price said, responding to conservative groups including Club for Growth and Heritage Action that have been critical of the proposal.

“And that is that we need a system that's affordable for folks, a system that's accessible for individuals, that's of the highest quality, that incentivizes innovation, and that empowers patients and so we look forward to working with them through this process.”


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Weird thing is ACA is far better than this, let me guess, cant let the black guy get credit, right?

Think about that, your neighbor who wont get healthcare now, who may die, is being punished because we wont let a black man have credit for this.

Why arent 150 million of us in the streets?

[narnian60]

3. +1

[gademocrat7]

2. Price is a disgusting liar.

[randr]

4. How many years have they had to "work on it"??

It is hard to believe they can tie their shoes laces.

[potone]

11. Well now, what makes you think...

that they do? I'm sure they have other people to do that for them.

[mac56]

5. So they're ditching an established program that's resolved many of its initial problems -

-- for a "work in progress"?

Does that make a damn bit of sense to anybody?

[Thor_MN]

16. "keeps the price down" keeps the price down for our rich owners.

The GOP always leaves that context out. They work for the rich only. They like to make the middle class think they are talking about them, but they never are.

[flamingdem]

6. Their plan robs Medicare of some 350 billion

and it's just the beginning.. Medicare stability was integral to ACA

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[dalton99a]

8. Tom Price M.D. is a cruel greedy piece of shit.

[elmac]

9. If ACA could cure stupid

we wouldn't have a president tRump today.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. A load of verbal vomit. nt

[Freethinker65]

12. Then finish the thing before you send it for a vote

[Sunlei]

13. Republicans lie about EVERYTHING.

[videohead5]

14. Just heard on MSNBC

The former administrator of Medicaid and Medicare said a 60 year old living in Alabama making $40,000 a year now gets a $10,000 subsidy to buy health insurance.if this Republican plan passes he would then only get a $4,000 tax credit and they can charge them a lot more for the policy on top of that.

[Kablooie]

15. I think they just threw something out there so they can deflect the blame to others who protest it.

They don't expect it to sail through but now they can blame other Congress folk for it not passing.

[Ilsa]

17. Oh, drop dead, Price. NT

[GReedDiamond]

18. I'm getting really tired of walking, sitting, standing, lying around...

...all day, all night...with an inner seething rage of anger and frustration with these creatures called "republicans."

And that doesn't even include the additional isroaaf generated by the conduct of the Twitler mis-administration/spokesholes - not to mention their russky co-conspirators, "alt-right" collaborators, media propagandists/apologists and brain-dead supporters.

I am exhausted and stressed out - 7 weeks seems like 7 months - the pressure keeps building.

I hope my Obamacare is still valid when my heart gives out...