What is the Republican Plan for health care reform in the United States?

[UCmeNdc]

The media never asks the GOP to be specific about its plan to make health care more practical.

[onehandle]

1. Die quickly? nt

[sakabatou]

4. +1

[bemildred]

17. +2. And quietly, don't disturb the "owners" while you do it. nt

[immoderate]

2. Let the 'free market' do it?

Their plan is to have no plan. They are busy protecting us from "big government."

--imm

[NoOneMan]

3. HeritageCare/DoleCare/RomneyCare

The real question is what was the Democratic plan and what the hell happened to it

[libdem4life]

7. That was after HillaryCare went the way of "pillow talk" and puttin' little ladies in their place.

"The Clinton health care plan, known officially as the Health Security Act, was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993

[CTyankee]

20. I guess Obama thought he could beat the repubs at their own game by refashioning THEIR

plan, e.g. Romneycare, on which to base the national plan. The repukes don't want a federal plan, period. This is the major ideological divide. What they are saying is "let red states devise their own plan, like Romney did for MA." Of course, they know full well repukes in those states won't do it. I wonder how long it will be before the people of those states organize and rise up against the republican establishment.

[JoePhilly]

5. Die.

[Blue Owl]

6. After eating their shit sandwich, of course.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Boils down to the two same basic things we always hear from them:

1. Tort Reform
2. Selling insurance across state lines

How either of these things will serve to make things better in terms of helping people obtain quality affordable health insurance is anybody's guess...........

[RBInMaine]

9. Don't forget health savings accounts. Gee, now there's a "plan".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I have one

utterly worthless unless you have a ton of money to invest in it (which, of course, most people don't- largely thanks to Republican policies). Unfortunately, it is about the only affordable plan my job offers.

[jmowreader]

13. You forgot the tax cut

The GOP wants to give everyone a tax cut so they can buy insurance from the Free Market.

Exactly how large of a tax cut we're supposed to use to ensure someone who earns $2000/month will be able to afford both a $1200/month health insurance policy and payments on the van they live down by the river in, they don't say.

[bigdarryl]

11. Die and Die QUICKLY!!!!

And that's no joke.They don't give a fuck about poor people getting insurance.Because poor people don't have a lobby in Congress

[blkmusclmachine]

12. No plans. And don't expect the "Liberal media" to ever hold the GOP accountable..for ANYTHING!

[Wounded Bear]

14. Don't get sick...

But if you do, spend all your money on ineffectual corporate 'health care' and die broke.

[Arneoker]

16. Republican Plan: Throw the less fortunate under the bus.

Reason the elite media doesn't ask them about it: None of the elite media are among the less fortunate.

[CTyankee]

18. repeal Obamacare and by doing so re-instate "pre-existing conditions" exclusion and pulling

young people under the age of 26 off their parents' health insurance plan.

We need to hammer that home again and again and again.

[Arkana]

19. Don't get sick

And if you do, die quickly and decrease the surplus population.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

21. Don't have insurance? Too bad! Should've been born rich! Now die quickly!

That's their health plan.