Republicans Formulating A Health Care Plan That Works : About Time

The Affordable Care Act is not about being affordable, it wasn't designed to be affordable, it was designed to fail. No? Is it possible to produce something that is 2700 pages long and have regulations, that at this point in time, that number more then 15,000 pages and growing, being anything but a failure? The ACA has written in the law that the Health and Human Services secretary has the power to write regulations 'as needed' to implement the law. What?

The Republicans can design just about anything they want and it will be better then ObamaCare. The problem of course is nearly a majority of the voting public still believes the progressive socialist democrats are doing the best they can to make sure everyone has access to good health care. That this is a complete lie is of no consequence.

The last Rasmussen poll that just came out showed Mr Obama with a 49% over all approval rating. This news makes a sane person have to sit down and quickly as the mind can not comprehend that there are that many people unawake of what has happened in this country while the likes of Mr Obama and the progressive socialists have been in control of Washington for more then six years.

Who are these people and where do they live?

Alternative Would Alleviate ObamaCare Pain
Source: Jennifer G. Hickey, "Alternative Would Alleviate ObamaCare Pain," Newsmax, March 18, 2014.
March 20, 2014

As GOP House members spend the coming weeks trying to finalize an alternative to ObamaCare, "Republicans need to be focused on the aspects of the law that are most upsetting for people," says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Goodman, who has been providing counsel to some Republicans in Congress, says the GOP caucus needs to coalesce around a few core principles.

• First and foremost, any alternative should concentrate on increasing choice, which means ending the individual mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance.
• Other priorities should include restoring fairness to the health care system by offering every American an annual tax credit worth $2,500 and every child a credit worth $1,500 as long as they purchase "credible private health insurance," regardless of where it is obtained.
• This would address the inconsistent application of ObamaCare subsidies and the arbitrary nature in which they are applied.
• Equally important is to target the disincentives in the Affordable Care Act that result in employers' reducing workers' hours or pay.
• The plan also should have a component addressing portability and removing provisions in ObamaCare that prevent employees from carrying their insurance to their next job.

Republicans "need to stop talking about general principles of offering insurance across state lines and association health plans and medical malpractice. Those are issues on the periphery. They might be politically popular and make good electoral strategy; they are not the solutions," Goodman says.