Memo to Republicans: Where’s ObamaCare’s Replacement?
by Dr. Susan BerryRepeal and Replace. That was the common refrain when House Republicans actually repealed ObamaCare in their chamber a year ago. Of course, the Senate Democrats rejected the repeal. But now there is a chance- some would say even a strong chance- that ObamaCare will be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court before the election in November. If the high Court decides that the individual mandate, which forces individuals to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional, and that President Obama’s signature legislation cannot go forward without that mandate, ObamaCare will stop dead in its tracks. Then what?
That’s where the Replace part comes in. Now, I won’t whine and complain about how things seem to take a long time to get done in Washington, but the replacement for ObamaCare should be on the assembly line, waiting to be packaged and sent to stores near all of us. We know the talking points that make good common sense: purchase health insurance across state lines, own our health insurance policies so they are portable, tort reform, free-market principles, etc. Of course, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), the reliable person that he is, has thought through a great deal of this, and has based his conservative answer to health care reform on his Medicare reform proposal.
But, where are the details and how do we plug ObamaCare’s replacement into our lives if the law is declared unconstitutional?
Health care legislation is not like other aspects of our lives. If the Supreme Court nixes ObamaCare, all those 26 year-olds who are currently on their parents’ plans could suddenly be without health insurance. What about pre-existing conditions? How exactly will this feature, that most people find favorable, be translated into a conservative health care reform plan? How will free-market principles become part of health care reform? And what’s the timeline?
Republicans need a single, detailed plan that all Americans can understand easily. That means Republicans will need to work together, using Congressman Ryan’s plan as a foundation. Delay, or failure to comprehend that Americans- both individuals and businesses- are anxious about health insurance and health care costs, as they have been since ObamaCare was passed, will only create more of an image of incompetence and invite further ridicule from liberal Democrats and their cronies, the formerly mainstream media.
Currently, Republicans have the American people on their side. Most Americans continue to want ObamaCare repealed. However, if a Supreme Court decision comes before full congressional repeal, Republicans would be wise to have a reform plan ready with an easy-to-read instruction manual. True, Senate Democrats may not give it the time of day, but let Americans see, once again, the Senate Democrats as the true obstructionists they are, just prior to the election.
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I got a replacement plan for you… it's called the Leave Me The Hell Alone Act. It's constitutional, and it's better than any plan out there.
You know you make a SMALL point here. YES we DO need reform but at what cost? They did NOT address the actual problem with their idiotic view of reform. The RISING COST OF CARE. If they did this correctly, they would NOT need the individual mandate as everyone would WANT TO BE A PART OF IT. You wouldn't have to FORCE people to do it. Let's be honest about this OK?
Just because the democrats serve up a crap sandwich, doesn't mean that the republicans have to counter by serving up a crap sandwich with cheese and pickles.
huh? wtf? do we need a replacement for a pile of dog feces sitting on the front door step? yes, work needs to be done to lower actual costs, not play government accounting games to pass something. possibly start by removing more government red tape. then allow the free market to work on healthcare.
If the Supreme Court nixes ObamaCare, all those 26 year-olds who are currently on their parents’ plans could suddenly be without health insurance. What about pre-existing conditions?
…and 26 year old Baby Hueys are on their parents insurance why?
With all the Participation Trophys, endless self-esteem building, diversity indoctrination and finely honed hand-eye coordination; shouldn't they be out in the workforce putting their awe inspiring talents of non-stop whining, entitlement missives, Cheeto gorging and couch occupying to work generating wealth?
I mean, at least for themselves.
Right?
Oh, Dr. Berry…you do realize you are talking about the party of stupid, do you not?
Repeal. Get the government the hell out of healthcare. Stop picking winners and producing losers. Stop subsidizing Big Pharma. Reform the Tort system and watch healthcare rates equalize and go down. That, is all the reform that is required.
Why do we keep feeding into this notion that politicians from either side can "fix" things? We need to repeal, and then repeal and repeal some more.
Agreed.
There are problems that can be looked at and addressed, but replacement is not the answer.
Repeal, then we take a second look.
I'll wait until obummercare is declared unconstitutional. However, a good, first idea is to allow insurance companies to offer their product across state lines. Competition generally drives down costs. However, states would have to be willing to regulate it.
I have an idea….bring jobs back to the US and people will have a chance to buy health care….along with having a JOB!!! If someone has a JOB and decided to take personal responsibility for their OWN life…let them decide if they want health care.
What about dental? Dental are expensive even with Dental Care. We have Dental Care with the military but we're still paying extreme high price to get work done.
AMEN to that!
The "replace" part should be left to the individual States to provide their own if they want it, just as Massachusetts has done. Then they can wrestle with the geometrically increasing insurance rates, terminal lines, and still having uninsured people. IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!
The federal government should repeal Obamacare in its entirety, and stay out of the insurance business. Leave it up to the States!!!!!
"Repeal and Replace."
Dr. Berry, with all due respect, I strongly disagree.
The entire premise that Government should be involved with anything to do with Healthcare is faulty, misguided, and wrong headed. It is not the Government's place.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it remotely inflect that Government could, or would have such powers. The fact that you even suggest that the GOP come up with a plan, tells me that they (Government) is winning. The first thing some misguided clown does, is present a plan. Immediately then, the opposing party feels that they then must present their "own" plan, to counter the original plan.
It is like the Chinese water torture.
Once these snowballs start rolling down the hill, there is no holding them back, or changing their course.
Any plan, whether DNC or GOP suggests more Government interference, involvement, meddling and fraud. WE do not need more Government.
We need less Government.
Isn't that why the 'pretenders' and 'fence sitting' leaders of the Republican party had Paul Ryan not run for the Presidency to do?
So where is it already…plenty of time to put it together!
Next big agenda after removing the puppet of the Bilderberg..Obama the Bush…get a new Speaker of the House…and if Rep Bachmann does not make the Presidency…she should be it…she has more cajones than the rest of these men!
I want MTV insurance, I cannot continue to pay these exorbitantly high cable TV bills.
Where is the list of Citations of Constitutional Authority for each and every legislative action the House engaged in?
Remember that "promise"? Remember having the Constitution read on the House floor? Apparently, John Boehner, the Silent Speaker (a reference to his lack of leadership regarding the GunWalker Scandal), along with the rest of the feckless GOP membership in the House, forgot what brought them to Majority in 2010.
The question about who made more promises and who kept and broke more of them, in the context of Barry Soetoro and John Boehner, is one that only expands in worthiness daily.
As for this article's focus directly, well, the only "replace" that has been offered by the Stuck On Stupid party is the same function with another name. Republicans tout "being allowed to buy insurance across state lines" as the savior. Now, it is a given that we are supposed to be able to shop in any state we choose. However, that is not the premise upon which the Republican party is operating. No, they are essentially offering Obamacare under another name.
How?
Well, it's like this. Because Liberty itself was snatched from us with a Supreme Court Dictate, one that basically amended the Constitution from within the Judiciary, the instant we can purchase insurance across a state line, the federal government assumes control over it via the "commerce clause".
A great many people out here in Citizenland UNDERSTAND this reality, that Republicans don't truly HAVE an alternative to offer. When it comes down to it, the Establishment GOPers want control of the medical sector of the economy, insurance industry especially, just as much as the Democrats do – they just want to exercise that control differently.
The GOP Majority in the House has said a great deal. However, it has done so very little. That Majority was sent to the House with crystal clear directives. They, the so called leadership" have ignored the voters who sent them there, what they were sent there to do and practiced business as usual.
The 2010 election was certainly historic, it was a historic FAIL. This is not because voters didn't act, they did! It was who they voted for who didn't act as directed. That said, this election must be even more historic.
Folks, turn away from the political factions that are the source of the problems. Withhold your vote from them, all of them, tossing each and every one of them, on either side of the aisle, out of office once and for all. Send the message that party politics is only a means to exiting government offices.
Vote 'em out – every last one of them.
Vote for Statesmen instead.
Republicans had a specific plan to counter Obamacare when it came up to vote in the House. Nancy Pelosi refused to read the plan, and tossed it out, so that she could ram Obamacare down our throats. Congressman Ed Royce told us the dirty details at a townhall meeting he held back in 2010. It's time to kick the donkeys out of their barn, and take over with sensible plans.
"Nancy Pelosi refused to read the plan, and tossed it out, so that she could ram Obamacare down our throats."
Remember my bumper-sticker from Healthcare 2010.
Shove it down our throats in 2010
We'll ram it up your arse in 2012!
Let's also be honest about the reality that government's purpose is not to control cost.
Cost is not the problem. People's ability to pay for it is the problem. We do not need government programs, we just need our own money so we are able to pay for what we want and need.
Government has permission slipped and regulated us into paralysis, like a virus infects a computer program. Expulsion from the system is the only solution – with a reformat and reinstallation on the table if simple removal is not possible.
Agreed. Without a new framework in place the High Court will not strike down Healthcare for American Citizens.
In a few short years, Medicare premiums will double, forcing ever more pain upon those who can least afford it. All of this in a misguided attempt for more "social justice', where the elderly will be sacrificing for the "do-nothings".
We are about to become the first nation in history that feeds Ma and Paw to the "fishes".
Dr. Berry obviously doesn't have any elderly patients.
I hope you gain a thousand thumbs up for that comment, micahnr.
When the TownHalls got going several years ago, I saw an older man put it to then candidate Arlan Specter as simply and straightforwardly as it could be. He told Arlan that what we wanted most, what the TEA Party sentiment was really all about was this – we want government to leave us alone, to let us be to live our lives as we deem fit for ourselves.
Yet again, we see a media trying to paint yet another election as all about "the economy". Hardly. "It's Individual Liberty, Stupid." Folks must have the courage to vote that way, in spite of the Old Media propaganda and the party politics.
Vote Liberty.
There is much merit in your approach. Problem is, the Feds have been screwing up the health care system for decades and their medling must be reversed. Moreover, it can't all be done suddenly because too many people depend too much on the status quo. Medicare is a good example of this problem.
Some things could be and should be done immediately, however. Take taxes. Why should employer-provided health insurance be tax free but insurance purchased directly by the employee be subject to income tax (on the income used for the premiums)?
These are just examples; the problem in its totality is much more complicated. It will take a while to sort out.
Sorry dieing at the whim of any politician does not look very constitutional. The real free market is the answer not the socialist market we have now.
Choices, choices, choices. Any program or government requirement that does not include lots of choices is probably bad. Obamacare certainly fits that description.
Why the hell is there any government supervision in health care at all?
Maybe I don't want government bureaucrats reviewing notes my doctor makes.
Jesus Christ. How about just leave people alone? How hard is that?
Spot on. It will take years to find and repeal all the stuff that needs to be repealed. By now we certainly should have learned that the government can't fix anything and when it tries, it usually makes things worse.
We need to us Ryan's plan as a beginning. Something needs to be done. Republicans that say let's do nothing are asking to see ObamaCare become the law of the land, because if he is reelected, he will veto any attempts to repeal ObamaCare. And how do we know if the Supreme Court will strike down ALL of the bill. They may leave parts of the bill intact. We Republicans had better stop this ideological purity nonsense. The idea is get Obama and his Democrat minions out – number one. We MUST have an alternative to attract Independents and Moderate Democrats. We are ONE country, not just a Conservative country. We need to remember how things have gotten done in the past – the art of compromise and don't start this crap about Reagan not willing to compromise. He had to and he did to get his agenda through. NOBODY GETS THE FULL LOAF OF BREAD. WE GET SLICES. This is how America works. Not it's my way or the highway!!!!!!!
This too was Barney Frank's bumper sticker… though his doesn't have years specified.
All buying insurance across state lines is going to do is reduce the service in favor of the insurance co's that are first and foremost willing to weave BS into their policies (ie coverage denial). Once they reap benefits from the profitability that will bring, and eat the smaller more ethical insurers, there will only be a few co's left in the nation who survived because they essentially did the same thing. Doctors associations would be left to negotiate with industry Goliaths. This would be part of the "free-market" solution, where we all would be free to chose from among a few remaining companies that look very similar, and underpay docs. The companies would then move on with their newfound crony clout to re-write health care rules until they allow aprentice-nurse-practicioners a spot at the surgery table.
Government AND markets can both be a problem. Too many of you people have been focus grouped into one camp.
Perhaps I should send him one, for his retirement party.
I believe you are on to something here. Get them printed up and make some money!
Agreed again.
Why not make all healthcare expenditures tax free? Simple to implement, immediate and significant benefit to all healthcare consumers.
End the restriction on interstate insurance sales.
There are conservative ideas.
Enough of these massive blanket government boondoggles no matter what the issue! No bill should be longer than the Constitution is what I say.
On the pages of the GOP web site where they've been since day one of the obamacare putz.
The GOP has put forth a 7 step reform program that actually reforms the problems making the HC accessible to nearly every person who wants it.
Speaking of which does anyone else find it the least bit odd that whenever there's a problem, there are always about 30M Americans affected?
30M unemployed
30M illegals
30M uninsured
uh, could we just take it as read that no matter what we do or don't do, some 30M people will fall through the cracks. Maybe we should just consider them "acceptable, political collateral damage" and move on?
This whole mess started during FDR. He put in wage controls during the depression and companies decided to offer health insurance to get around the wage controls. This had led to a society that no longer shops for the best deal in healthcare but just cares about access. Then LBJ gave us Medicare/Medicaid which the government under pays the Drs. so the cost gets shifted to those of us that have insurance. Since our companies pay the premiums that are forced to go up because of the under payment of treatment to the Drs. we could care less about the prices. We would be better off if everyone had a high deductible policy and a health savings account to pay for the minor bills when we need them. This would bring market forces back into the industry and the cost would start going down. We need 100 million households shopping for healthcare
We should have a new amendment to the constitution… "If any congressman or senator sponsors a bill, and that bill passes, those same congressmen and senators have to carry a full size copy of that bill on their person at all times, until they no longer hold elected office."
I am sitting on an idea, and timing it in time for the election.
It is one of those things that will be a "Must have" for everyone.
Government does NOT provide "health care". Government provides insurance for those who can't get insurance at affordable prices….Medicare, Medicaid.
Doctors provide health care! Fee for service.
Insurance companies are like Vegas Odds Makers….they're betting on you staying well but require you to pay for the priviledge of having a sense of security against catastrophic loss. (sometimes that's a false sense of security) They DO NOT want to pay out per their agreements with you….and will make every legal maneuver to avoid it. THIS is the industry in need of reform!
Costs are ever pricier as are tests, fees, etc, due in part to the very fact that insurance exists and the provider's want to make sure they get as much as they can from those insurers, because they know you and I can't possibly bear those costs.
Status quo.
Just let the american people continue to get raped by insurance companies.
You're the health insurance industries wet dream.
Let them continue to deny deny deny while raking it in.
Oh, Ugh! This is the last thing I want to hear from conservatives.
The federal government cannot do anything except open the competition across state lines. They may be able to address some tort reform issues, but most should be addressed by the states.
The people who oppose Obamacare don't care at this point about another big, ugly government plan. They just want O-Care Gone.
If conservatives open up this can-of-worms during an election year, We Are Screwed!
However, the Dems are going to be screaming "So, What's Your Plan"! This is a trick to get people to accept the premise that the federal government needs a plan! Don't fall for it! And, for Heaven's Sake, conservatives don't need to be screaming it, too.
The Repub candidate should have a specific response to the top issues in Healthcare and be very clear about what should be done on the state level. If any should be addressed on the federal level (very few), suggest each issue be a separate bill…………..Short bill!
The vast majority of americans knwo the current system is flawed and a rip off.
Health insurance companies pay millions to buy congress to be allowed to continue to rip us off.
The democrat "crap sandwich" is an original GOP idea and is great for the private insurance companies. Why do you think the left was pissed at Obama for it?
I agree, and I normally do not use bumper stickers so, you might also consider the magnet version as well. Then I will purchase 1 or 2, and maybe more!
I agree with that sentiment
You know as an OTR truck driver who can no longer take his favorite MOUTHWASH on the road because it contains alcohol, I have long told people that if truck drivers were required by law to carry a hard copy of every federal, state, county and city law and regulation they are required to know and obey, that there would not be any space left in the trailer to carry freight..
I believe that ti was during WWII, which was technically the depression, but at a different point.
Don't forget that Sen. Ted "drunken murder" Kennedy gave us HMOs.
I wonder why the speaker wound up with a primary challenger.
Free market has done really well so far.
we've been getting ripped off for decades.
When the insurance company wrongs you, you have the law and the state to stand in your defense.
When the state wrongs you then what have you left?
what is free market about health care? can i purchase any type of insurance i want, nope. can i purchase health insurance across state lines, nope. can i select what coverages i need, or don't need, NOPE!! where is the free market in this? can i sign a waiver to my doctor, drug company, hospital, or medical device maker, NOPE! so every healtcare provider must test me for things i would never possibly have, to avoid getting brought to court by slimey lawyers(see john edwards). if a drug is the only thing that can keep me alive, i must agree to live with the side effects. the option to not allowing them to test me, or agree to side effects is death, there is nothing good about that option. again, where exactly is the free market?
If the government wasn't involved they wouldn't have to bribed would they?
Hmmm, insurance mandated by the government. Ridiculous regulations put on the insurance agencies concerning those mandated services. Lawyers use the law to sue insurances companies… but yes, it's all the insurance companies' fault.
VERY Good Article !!!
I have wondered the same thing myself.
Why aren't we out there promoting our cost saving plans for Health Care like limiting Lawsuits.
Are the Republicans so stupid as too get out there Trashing Obama-care without plans for more affordable care?
Yes They are !!!
Ridiculous. Maybe drivers should not be able to travel with air… they might hyperventilate and crash. If only the Government could protect us from everything.
The last two bumper stickers I had, were during the Clinton Administration.
The first one said
Jack Kevorkian for White House Doctor.
Te second one said
Screw the Whales and the Baby Seals, save the Cowboy's!
'On the assembly line?' So it can be 'deemed' to have passed?
I'm no fan of big government. And "assembly line" "IS" exactly what is wrong with our government today. Legislation isn't constructed, debated and considered on its merits any more. It's all "assembly line" crap.
And prima donna doctors are a big part of the reason for much of our problems, Dr. Berry.
I'm tired of divide and conquer demographics being used to leverage Americans for the sake of big business by big government and influential partisan donors. While the average American taxpayer pays for it.
If the present system is broke, then let's fix it. After all, it was created by you people, too. Most everything is already in place and it would be FAR less expensive to fix than to replace. Except for one tiny problem, isn't that right "Dr.?"
And that "IS" graft, fraud, waste and outright theft presently suborned by the people (you, 'Dr.') who have been 'trusted' to operate the system. Which means we need to chop a few heads. Put a few criminal Dr.'s in prison and make it hurt. But we can't do that to our precious doctors, can we, 'Dr.?'
No, we can't have system and expect our precious prima donna Dr's behave honorably, can we? No, you have Country Club dues to pay and a Health Club membership and a Travel Club, a BIG house and expensive cars to pay for. Can't have all of that on such a meager salary, can you? There has to be room for graft and theft and fraud.
The left was pissed at Obama because he didn't push for the total communist breakfast platter of crap sandwich, urinade, and scrambled sputum. The vast majority of people citing "the vast majority of americans" is typically flawed.
Those are very funny. Good job!
Her articles presupposes that there is a neccisity for a replacement or that the government should have a replacement and that there is a problem. There is no problem with health care. The fact is we have an ever expanding market of goods and services available and more of the GDP is being spent on it. Well no kidding. More is spent today for heart bypass surgery than was spent on bypass surgery in 1970 by an infinite amount. To be fair only about 50 people had had a bypass surgery by 1970, now its common place. This is why medical appears to be increasing in cost but it is not. Procedures now are cheaper than they were 20 years ago, prove I am a liar do the research.
The fact is we have more procedures and drugs available now than we did 20 years ago so we can fix more. Many things that could not be fixed can, hence an increase in preceived cost. Fact is we have so much available you couldn't begin to list what is available. So yes, we spend more but we have an immense amount more. There is no problem. You can always accept the treatment of previous generations. Don't take heart medication if it was not developed before 1990, your cost will go way down but who really is ready to do this. We don't have a problem, health care is growing in complexity and availability, so we are spending more. This is like trying to use government to curb the cost on computers because we compare what we spent on computers in 1980 to today. It is exactly the same issue.
well tort reform will severely limit the amount of legal action you can take.
And ripping people off ins't against the law.
The Dems are socialists, and socialists despise free markets. Up here where I live, a privately owned medical company bought an MRI machine a couple years ago, with the obvious intent to offer MRI services. But it turns out they're not allowed to untill the state condescends to approve, and issue them, something called a 'certificate of need', meaning this Co. spent many months and a lot of money trying to prove that a market existed for their service. Surprise surprise…another Co. that also owned an MRI, and got into the local market first, fought them tooth and nail. The certificate was denied, they were shut down before they started, and were stuck with a $million dollar machine they weren't allowed to use. Can you guess what kind of rates we pay here for MRIs with one Co. having a Government mandated monopoly? This of course is just one of thousands of ways Government makes healthcare 'affordable' (sarc)
Yeah, 20 years I've been driving and I never knew there was such a huge problem in America where truck drivers were risking blindness and death by drinking mouthwash to get drunk instead of just buying beer at the truckstop where they stop for the night, but thank god the politicians that are running America into the ground found out about this major threat to Democracy and enacted legislation to end it; or maybe one of these geniuses watched a NASCAR race and decided that people with bad breath drive better..
Don't need one, no matter how many "tragic" cases you drag before the camera. Just stop treating illegal immigrants on our dime. Make the their origin country pay. Set up an arrangement with them, what's the big deal?
I think you might have missed what Dr. Berry was advocating – what I read was reducing government mandates to allow insurance policies to cross state lines, owning our own insurance policies, and tort reform presumably to remove some of the regulations that make doctors targets for lawsuits.
I personally don't see anything there that isn't rolling back government involvement in health care – I think Dr. Berry has written the first article I fully agree with
.
I'm wondering if I missed something…
What the hell are you talking about?
If all you want to do is blather nonsense why don't you just go play in traffic?
"do we need a replacement for a pile of dog feces sitting on the front door step?"
the only difference between a bag of manure and Obama is the bag.
No.
I do not think you missed anything.
I read the same thing from it as you did.
I just took it the next step further, and added what was my opinion.
Personally, I believe that from the moment the Government gets involved in anything, it is a death knell. The Government is only a Perpetual Mortician. They should go into the Cemetery business, because everything they touch withers and immediately dies.
There is only one fitting word for the Heavy Hand of Government F.U.B.A.R!
""Ridiculous regulations""
Like actually covering those who pay them money? instead of trying every conceivable way of denying coverage?
""all the insurance companies' fault""
Not all. But their lobbying has worked well. We're told the evils of government bureaucrats deciding things, but thats exactly what health insurance companies are, highly paid pencil pushers deciding who gets covered and who doesn't,
Old media propoganda?
I'm sure foxnews, talk radio, ny post washington times and the blogs have made up for all that "propaganda" with their own propaganda
Is there a reason we shouldn't be able to buy insurance and medical care from anywhere on the planet? With telemedicine it would seem like I could get first level diagnosis coverage for a pittance. I can take my pulse with my android phone, I can run my own blood pressure cuff, I can lie about dealing with my weight just as easily at home as in the doctors office.
I'm kind of curious why the practice of medicine is so stuck in the mode it's in. We seem to have frozen somewhere just after we removed the nice feature of house calls.
Frozen business practices always suggest stupid regulations to me…
If you're stupid enough to keep buying a ripoff insurance, it's not my fault, nor is it the government's fault, it's YOUR fault. Buy sane insurance instead.
""can i purchase any type of insurance i want, nope""
Thats because the free market without any regulations creates monopolies.
"""again, where exactly is the free market?""
And the american pharma industry has paid off congress enough to make sure we never are allowed to get our drugs form other cheaper sources. So free market money is used to buy congress to further restrict us.
their the body that makes laws. It's kinda hard for them not to be involved.
Free market with no regulations gives us 2008 economic crash, industry monopolies.
there is nothing remotely communists about obamacare as it is. healthcare is all privately run.
Do you think buying private insurance for you car is halfway to communism?
Not my fault if you can't keep up
Your first sentence earns IMO +1,000. Thats the basis of the entire problem, period!
You desperately need to get out more.
The fact that you think it's that black and white shows you live in a cocoon.
Are their affordable plans out there? yes. in the end they find a way to NOT cover something you need.
Thank you from a really small business owner who has been porked for years with no deduction.
you are so diluted. the free market works for breast enlargement proceedures, and laser vision correction, why? because since they are elective proceedures, they are not covered by insurance most of the time. the cost has lowered for both, and the quality has gone up. now according to you the free market does not work, but why has it worked for these things that fall outside of traditional health care monster? the states create the monopoly by not allowing out of state competition. drugs are a whole different story. the easiest way to fix them is change the patent rules. allow a drug's patent to start the clock ticking the first day it is allowed to be sold to consumers, not the day the drug company starts the hoops and ladders the fda makes them jump into, just to get them to market. this will not make the drug companies rush the test research, and insure lower prices.
How much is Obama paying you to agitate?
No, again you are wrong. You make an accusation that you cannot support, then you ramble on endlessly making almost no sense whatsoever.
It's not my fault that you cannot advance an argument.
Now go away little troll, we're not interested in your incoherent babbling.
Sigh… your answer reveals your complete ignorance/complicity. Buh-bye troll.
He is an Obamacare loving commie.
Get the lawyers and unions out of the healthcare business and the costs will plummet over night.
Never said the free market doesn't work I said the free market without a referee does not work. We've seen that over and over.
Yes competition lowers costs, buying insurance across state lines would help but thats only half the battle.
Repeal is all that should matter. If Republicans want to get involved with writing law about health care it should only involve getting government and possibly business out of the industry. Free market for health care is the only solution needed.
"""He is an Obamacare loving commie.""
This sentence is all anyone needs to see to know how much of an idiot you are.
What have I said or Obama done that is communist?
I can't wait for this answer
Tort reform is an effort pushed by the chamber of commerce to limit the amount legal recourse people can take. What is unclear about that?
Gawd you people are dumb today, you just walk right into it.
I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody
contradict yourself much? for example, if you are 55-60 years old, and you are no longer planning on having children, or going nuts. your insurance carrier must include reproductive services, and mental health coverage in your policy. on my car, i can choose to, or not to include rental car, or towing, but not on my health insurance. this is because of the referee, not because of the free market. i also can purchase car insurance from any state, but not my health insurance. again, not because of the free market, but the referee. you cannot have it both ways, a free market, and a influence peddaling referee. the drug companies lobby congress, because congress makes it a requirement to do business. again, the referee allows bribes, these bribes benefit the politician, but not you or me. could you imagine a football game with the head coach having to fill his pockets with dollar bills instead of red flags and plays?
I don't know for example what an 'effort' is.
For example; "it's an effort to get sajc05 to make any sense". Is that what you mean?
with, or without the bag, i just want it out of here!
HAHA this video PROVES you have ZERO DEPTH.
Sorry I need a moment because I'm laughing at your stupidity right now…
You make it too easy
Of course, ignorant, shallow minds translate that sentence ONE way. The way Foxnews and limbaugh wants you to translate it.
Intelligent people look deeper and know greater point he was trying to make. I would tell you what that point was, but it would be over your head and then you'd just go off on a retarded commie rant again.
"ObamaCare will stop dead in its tracks. Then what?"
Then it will go back to the way it was. The "children" who are on their parents' insurance will go back to NOT being on their parents' insurance. Insurance was never the problem, so it still is not. Medicare/caid and county health still exist. Fix the problem. You outlined tort reform and insurance policies crossing state lines. Get the central govt out of our business. This is an issue for the states to fix.
Obama was taught Marxism by Marxists, what's to wonder about?
You are starting to bore me. Discussion with you is too much "effort".
Your just dancing around limbaugh talking points. How does it feel to never have an original thought?
So you don't know what obama meant by spread the wealth do you? Just what limbaugh told you? sad
That would be an Awesome response by a 4th grader. so… are you 10 years old?
an "effort" is a campaign of money funneled through pacs and candidates to get the outcome you want. In this case, corps don't want to be sued. Solution? limit the amount of legal recourse people can take. Who pays for the bidding of corps? the chamber. who do they pay? congress and media.
It seems I know the English language a tad better than you for starters. And you then are to tutor me in Marxism, history and what Obama meant in that video? I think not.
What the hell is a corps?
Thank you for providing such an amusing analogy that illustrates the fallacy behind Dr. Berry's article. Too many people (including the good doctor) fail to ask what role the government has played in driving up the costs of medical care and medicine. Ever since health insurance was used to get around wage and price controls medical costs have skyrocketed.
Here's an idea. Be a great employee for a company that pays for all or part of your health insurance. Teach your children that an education and a great work ethic will take you far in life. Personal responsibility is the answer.
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