Senate Republicans pitch ObamaCare alternative on eve of presidential address
Source: Fox News
Seizing on the public's continued anxiety over the ObamaCare rollout, a trio of Republican senators on Monday unveiled a sweeping alternative proposal they say would gut the law's mandates and taxes while preserving consumer protections.
Sens. Orrin Hatch, of Utah; Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma; and Richard Burr, of North Carolina, announced their plan one day before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address. It is his first such address since the launch of the state and federal health care exchanges.
The GOP proposal, dubbed the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act, would repeal the president's marquee legislative achievement while instituting new reforms the senators say would give states and individuals more flexibility and purchasing power.
"Americans deserve a real alternative, and a way out," Coburn said.
Under the plan, insurances companies would not be able to impose lifetime limits on patients and would be required to allow dependent coverage up to the age of 26, as ObamaCare currently does. The Republican proposal would address the issue of pre-existing conditions by creating a new "continuous coverage" standard that would prevent any individual moving from one insurance plan to another from being denied on the basis of a pre-existing condition so long as that individual was continuously enrolled in a health plan.
The requirements on individuals to buy insurance, and on mid-sized and large businesses to provide it, would be repealed.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/27/senate-republicans-pitch-obamacare-alternative-on-eve-presidential-address/
starroute
(12,977 posts)If you can't afford it, tough shit.
If your employer doesn't provide it, tough shit.
If you let coverage lapse during a period of unemployment or other financial stress and then get a pre-existing condition -- double-tough shit, you're screwed for life.
And this is affordable, how? This is empowering, how?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Sickening...
loudsue
(14,087 posts)Richard Burr. Dumber than a box of rocks, but sneaky as a fox.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)was the way health insurance worked before the ACA?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Bullshit Mountain
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Brought to us by the Financially Underfunded Communities Kamikaze Yielding Optimum Unhappyness party as always...
Gman
(24,780 posts)as an "alternative" while the ACA was being debated.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)They can repackage the same old shit 47 different ways, but it's still shit.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Hatch...another joke.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)Sounds like a great idea
jsr
(7,712 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)So the president or Dems cant say they dont have any plan so far.
ramapo
(4,588 posts)The mandate was an industry requirement before they would back any reform.
bjvom
(51 posts)Cynical Senate Republicans pretend they are actually trying to do something