This week House Republicans unveiled, what they’re calling, an alternative Health Care plan designed to take on what they feel is missing the the massive 1,990 page government take over put forth by Nancy Pelosi and Democrat leaders — the actual problems with health care and did it with only 219 pages!
Here are two fact sheets from the GOP about the Democrat takeover plan:
Fact Sheet: Speaker Pelosi’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Destroy Small Business Jobs (PDF)
Fact Sheet: Speaker Pelosi’s Government Takeover of Health Care Will Hurt Seniors (PDF)
The Republican version of reform sets out to tackle 4 main issues and problems that currently have Health Care costs soaring and access for some limited.
These are:
- Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
- Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
- Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
- Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it’s good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
Last weekend House Minority Leader John Boehner prefaced this plan in the Republican weekly address:
Full text of Leader Boehner’s address along with his op-ed in the Miami Herald
By now, the American people have made it crystal clear to Washington that what they want out of healthcare reform is a plan focused on reducing costs, not growing government.
Unfortunately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democratic leaders ignored Americans’ concerns and wrote a bill that would implement a government takeover of healthcare that actually increases costs and adds to our already skyrocketing debt.
Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare bill represents 1,990 pages of bureaucracy designed to centralize healthcare decision making in Washington, D.C., at the expense of patients and doctors. It will require tens of thousands of new federal employees.
It will create dozens of boards, bureaus and commissions in charge of coming up with new regulations and red tape that will inevitably make healthcare in this country more expensive.
Indeed, Speaker Pelosi’s bill will lead to higher health insurance premiums and impose new burdens on taxpayers from all walks of life and the nation as a whole.
Even though President Obama declared to Congress that the cost of healthcare reform would not exceed $900 billion over the next decade, Speaker Pelosi’s bill clocks in at more than $1 trillion — and counting.
The final price tag is sure to be higher as we continue to discover the bill’s hidden costs.
Today the CBO confirmed (pdf) the GOP plan will lower Health Care premiums and reduce the deficit without tax hikes on families & small businesses
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Also today, House Republican make a House Call at the Capitol
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vote NO WAY on heath care bull shit ,improve but dont rape the tax payer, and the one how need it. why the rush to ok this bill then not start the return to the people for four years higher taxs, fix the problem dont a bigger problem also work DEM & rep as one , not just one party bill if not god save us because will have no controll and the rights of people will be gone for no good. PS listen to the people and do whats good for all americans and what wright dont support the party support the people .
my spelling is not to good but i dont want this heath care plan to pass vote NO NO NO NO