Past The Hooplah, One Hopes The GOP Replacement Proposal Gets A Review

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by Smitty

This is interesting:

Conservatives representing nearly three-quarters of the House Republican conference unveiled their proposed replacement for President Obama’s healthcare law Wednesday, delivering on a long-delayed GOP promise.
The bill from the Republican Study Committee would fully repeal the 2010 law and replace it with an expansion of health savings accounts, medical liability reform and the elimination of restrictions on purchasing insurance across state lines.
Authors of the proposal said they would push for a vote on the House floor, although they acknowledged the bill stands no chance of passage with Obama in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate.

Thus, no one can reasonably say that the GOP is purely obstructionist here. The House’s action sets up the (more realistic, let’s face it) possibility of delaying ObamaCare another year, and turning 2014 into a referendum between a despised train wreck and the Republican Steering Committee idea, which could retain some flavor of traditional American liberty for our future.

It’s worth noting that even the staunchest ObamaCare advocates wouldn’t mind additional time to actually get some of the infrastructure developed for the program. Scream and holler though they will, the additional schedule slack would be a boon for them.

Hayward notes at Human Events:

Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor made a point of supporting President Obama’s quest for military strikes on Syria because they thought it would earn them some reciprocal goodwill. Then they got to watch Obama take the stage, just hours after a shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard, and launch slash-and-burn partisan attacks against them. Perhaps that influenced their decision to go all-in on ObamaCare repeal. Maybe they got tired of trying to shake hands with someone who keeps hitting them below the belt.

Nice fable, John, but we’re talking about the kind of a guy who lets one Ambassador twist in the wind in Benghazi, then sends another Ambassador to urinate down the public back while talking about the video that precipitated the tragedy. Our President is a lying, no-talent rodeo clown of such magnitude that you’d require a lobotomy scar of Kerry proportions not to notice. Still: good try.

via Human Events

26 comments

  1. “because [Boehner and Cantor] thought it would earn them some reciprocal goodwill”.

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    Seriously? After 5 years, seriously? The Party of Stupid, indeed.

  2. Bad way to go. Just defund it, then get on with repeal. We don’t need a “replacement.”

    We need people smart enough to read the Constitution and discover the government has no right interfering with healthcare in any way. No wonder Republicans keep losing.

  6. More like “have made a study of.”

    That’s the very chimera that is leading the Republicans off into Whigdom.

    This urge to “do something” is why we need to take away their toys. They aren’t smart enough to tell us how to live.

  7. Why do those squishes always point to allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines as some sort of solution?

    The States have a constitutional right and responsibility to manage (or not to manage) their own healthcare regulation.

    Insurance companies will do business in any state that will allow them to profitably operate.

    The across state lines things is a fallacy ginned up by the feeble brained.

  10. It would be as good thing if Congress forbade the states to prohibit the interstate trade barrier for Medical insurance. The left misuses the Interstate Commerce thingy with abandon and Congress could actually use it for something the founders actually intended.

  12. “Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people in case you haven’t been keeping up — raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you’ve already racked up, Congress. It’s a basic function of [the Executive to be] making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved [, but it’s the job of the Congress to reign in this spending].”

    … but Congress must keep spending, ignoring those ‘crazy’ Tea Party folks, who would have Congress do her job.

  14. Insurance companies operate the same wherever they do business.

    The only difference between the states are the actuarial risk pools.

    Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, it is a math issue. State lines don’t matter. And the impact of allowing the purchase of insurance policies from a company not in your state (technically, all the insurance companies create different entities for each state….but the record keeping is easy as the process is streamlined) is zero.

  15. The way they basically operate is the same. What varies greatly by state is the required coverage mandated by the Mandarins. If I don’t want/need birth control coverage why should I pay for it. Yet, in many states I’m requires to take it, like it or not, because the state requires the companies to include it. I’ve seen this personally, and see no reason why I should have to pay for such coverage if I don’t need it or want it.

  16. I certainly understand the sentiment. But besides a few outliers on the liberal coasts, the states have very similar guidelines.

  17. Liar. They put up multiple proposals in 2009 and 2010. Of course, Low Info Voters like you would have tried not to notice.

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