Republicans on heath care plan: Uh, we have none–give us more time
Maybe next week. Not this week, or the hundreds or so weeks before this one. Or maybe the week after that.
Click here for reuse options!As New York’s Jon Chait explained, “The reason the dog keeps eating the Republicans’ health-care homework is very simple: It is impossible to design a health-care plan that is both consistent with conservative ideology and acceptable to the broader public. People who can’t afford health insurance are either unusually sick (meaning their health-care costs are high), unusually poor (their incomes are low), or both. Covering them means finding the money to pay for the cost of their medical treatment. You can cover poor people by giving them money. And you can cover sick people by requiring insurers to sell plans to people regardless of age or preexisting conditions. Obamacare uses both of these methods. But Republicans oppose spending more money on the poor, and they oppose regulation, which means they don’t want to do either of them.”
Or as a Republican Hill staffer famously put it in 2014, “As far as repeal and replace goes, the problem with replace is that if you really want people to have these new benefits, it looks a hell of a lot like the Affordable Care Act…. To make something like that work, you have to move in the direction of the ACA.”
Which, of course, Republicans can’t bring themselves to do.
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27 responses to Republicans on heath care plan: Uh, we have none–give us more time
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nola878 April 19th, 2016 at 18:40
Clearly Obama’s fault.
alpacadaddy April 19th, 2016 at 23:31
Clearly!
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Larry Schmitt April 19th, 2016 at 18:49
And these people keep getting elected, as many times as they run, in spite of wasting our money doing nothing.
Suzanne McFly April 19th, 2016 at 19:44
That is why these types love the low educated voters.
clemans April 20th, 2016 at 03:13
gerry-rigging voting districts. Liberals need to get involved in local politics and undo that damage
Mike April 19th, 2016 at 19:34
Republicans don’t want to govern, they want to burn down the White House with the Black guy inside…
mistlesuede April 19th, 2016 at 21:39
Bingo.
Obewon April 19th, 2016 at 19:56
Republicans’ health-care plan? That’s the Koch Bros funded & founded Heritage foundation Romneycare AKA the ‘$1.5 T+ federal deficit reducing Affordable Care Act’-CBO! Saved $1 T+ from Medicare 2011-2020 with U.S. Record 90% HC insured.
Cost? Hey, GOP, here’s your Obamacare ‘failure:’ $1 trillion saved for Medicare! http://www.alan.com/2016/03/13/hey-gop-heres-your-obamacare-failure-1-trillion-saved-for-medicare/ The Canadian until 2016 forgets…
jybarz April 19th, 2016 at 20:09
GOP: the EVIL Party!
whatthe46 April 20th, 2016 at 00:01
in a nut shell.
clemans April 20th, 2016 at 03:10
they aren’t evil, their policies are. They are sociopaths or psychopaths, that is a mental illness that prevents them from understanding the value of anything but them.
Look up the articles on brain scans between liberals and conservatives, embrace science, it shows the difference. They can’t help being like they are.
Larry Schmitt April 19th, 2016 at 20:42
Republican health care: Die, and save all that money you would waste on doctors. Who needs insurance?
Mensa Member April 19th, 2016 at 21:56
Teaparty healthcare plan: don’t buy health insurance because of “freedom”
Then get sick and freeload off the rest of us.
Mensa Member April 19th, 2016 at 21:49
The GOP have always had plan — they just don’t want to say it.
But Alan Grayson did: “don’t get sick,” and “if you do get sick, die quickly.”
And this is after paying decades of health insurance premiums!
labman57 April 19th, 2016 at 21:52
Republican-sponsored comprehensive health care coverage proposals — aka “legislative vaporware”.
William April 19th, 2016 at 22:36
Don’t hold your breath
Mensa Member April 19th, 2016 at 23:43
Make no mistake.
If you have a pre-existing condition, Republicans want you to die.
With your widow homeless and bankrupt.
clemans April 20th, 2016 at 03:03
no, they want her to die too. They are even trying to take earned health care away from the military. If they can’t “use” you for political reasons or profit from paying you peanuts for work, they have no use for you at all.
freebird44 April 20th, 2016 at 14:57
Remember those “death panels” our gal Palin kept repeated-well, it’s come to pass but from that other do nothing party, not the Democrats!
liberalMD April 20th, 2016 at 09:47
But it’s much worse than their opposition to Obamacare…..they have yet to propose an alternative to the health care plan that Hillary Clinton proposed in 1993 and 1994! Twenty-three years and no plan…..seems like somebody ought to get on the ball over in the Red Room.
cwazycajun April 20th, 2016 at 10:16
the republicon answer to healthcare for the poor and middle class …go to the emergency room of the hospital that was just shut down due to budget cuts….
LookingGlass April 20th, 2016 at 10:22
They’ll have a “plan” as SOON as Hilary is indicted, tried, found guilty AND sentenced to prison!!
freebird44 April 20th, 2016 at 14:56
So you really think after all the years Republicans have bashed Hillary and made up crap plus 11 hrs. of Benghazi hearings with NO results you still believe everything on FAUX News?? Wait, I don’t want to know, this is a waste of time just like your party…
LookingGlass April 20th, 2016 at 16:38
The FAUX News Channel??? I have NOT watched that GARBAGE since NEVER!! It’s funny though, whenever I state the aforementioned opinion on a “conservative” blog, I get FLAGGED/BANNED!!! The republicans are SO good at prognosticating the “future,” that I think that I’ll throw another one OR three packages of microwavable popcorn in the oven AND enjoy the SHOW!!
BRING IT ON, I say, with ROTFLMFAO!!!
whatthe46 April 20th, 2016 at 16:51
Stupid can’t help but remain that way.
mmmjv April 20th, 2016 at 23:52
“It is impossible to design a health-care plan that is both consistent with conservative ideology”
Of course that’s impossible! The basis of conservative ideology is fuck the poor. Any plan that’s designed to help them, or even people who aren’t really poor but still can’t afford health care because the costs are so damn high. Something like that will never be consistent with conservative ideology.
A health care plan (and I use that term widely here) that is consistent with conservative ideology would be huge tax cuts for the rich and then just assume that they are going to use that money to give their employees health care