What is the GOP solution to the Health Care issue?

[Kingofalldems]

With all their screaming about this, I still haven't heard one positive suggestion. What's the deal?

[gratuitous]

1. The GOP health care plan in 9 words:

Don't get sick. If you get sick, die quickly.*

*Not applicable to rich-ass donors to Republican candidates and officials. This is just for the proles.

[texastoast]

2. ...

"I can afford my insurance, so fuck off if you can't."

:shrug:

[w8liftinglady]

10. what I don't get- so many of the Tea Party supporters here are uninsured

seriously..
In Ellis and henderson counties... over 50% uninsured
89% voted R last election.
go figure.

[stockholmer]

16. its called the Stockholm Syndrome (sorry, I could not resist) lololol

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. No solution is needed because there is no problem.

We have the best health care in the world, didn't you know that? And if you can't afford it, well, you need to get a better job or buy better insurance. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, slacker. Why do you need to have the government do everything for you?

In case this is needed: :sarcasm:

[Kingofalldems]

5. I have heard that one--the tricky little phrase tho is 'delivery system'

Meaning if you can afford it, health care is just great in the USA

[Phentex]

18. THIS is what I usually hear...

People just need to get better jobs. :eyes:

[LiberalAndProud]

4. As I understand it, after repealing our healthcare law as passed, they want to

control medical costs. I'm not sure how they intend to go about that, since government has no place in the marketplace according to their philosophy, but if you don't think it through it sounds reasonable and even smart. I'd be all for controlling costs if it could be done.

But I suspect it can't and won't.

[stillwaiting]

6. They want to control costs for the corporations, not the people.

They intend to do this with tort reform and opening up interstate commerce.

They say this will reduce costs for the individual, but shockingly(!), corporations will be the only beneficiary.

Besides those two items I have heard very few ideas that have consensus approval at this point in time.

[Ozymanithrax]

7. It's called personal responsibility...

Each individual is personally responsible for his or her health care. Can't afford it, then you don't deserve it.

That is the Republcian way.

[brooklynite]

8. They have two cliche solutions...

The first is always "tort reform": reduce medical liability costs by reducing eligibility for malpractice lawsuits, and reduce "punitive" damages on successful claims.

The second is "market solutions": let insurance companies sell any policy in any market; in other words, don't allow states to require higher levels of medical care (contraceptives, mental illness care, etc) in all policies, and allow customers to buy low cost "catastophic" policies (leaving the Government to pay the bills when the benefits run out).

[Taverner]

9. Die quickly

[stockholmer]

11. I have a solution! move here to Sweden, we can use some smart progressives & socialists from USA!

and our health care is world class, based on prevention, not profit, and basically free (most you can spend is like 125 US dollars a year on service, and 150 on meds)

hope you like long winters though, lolololol


oh, and please leave the neo-cons there :D

[spanone]

12. don't hold your breath. they only have plans to destroy the President's accomplishments.

[Uncle Joe]

13. The GOP solution to the Health Care issue and their position on it are two different things.

Essentially the GOP got what they wanted without having to vote for it.

This will do both; enamor them to their foot soldiers as pretending to be against "Big government" while serving their primary clients' ie: for profit "health" insurance corporations' best interests.

Thanks for the thread, Kingofalldems.

[DCKit]

14. The party of "NO".

No ideas
No morals
No values
No ethics
No accountability
No boundaries
No compassion

You get the idea.

[old mark]

15. K&R- My understanding is that they want to "start over", which means they

will do nothing for another hundred years or so.
Lindsey Graham said something about "starting over" on TV this morning...can't be more specific-I wasn't really awake yet- and don't pay much attentention to him even when I am.


mark

[Capnjack]

17. I remember some of them

..from the debate. Didn't they say they wanted to do insurance across state lines as well as some sort of malpractice reform?
I can't remember the rest, but I think there were a few ideas on the table.

[Kingofalldems]

19. I remember the great Grayson's explanation: Die quickly.

The repubs never actually refuted this statement.