Blunt: GOP Shouldn't Have Health Care Plan, It Would Just "Confuse" People

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Republicans who had promised last month to offer a healthcare reform alternative are now suggesting no such bill will be introduced.

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said, "Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they've got to whatever we're offering right now?"

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Comments

[Aerows]

It's extremely confusing when insurance companies aren't raping the public and lining the pockets of politicians. That's the only confusing part about why we don't have a public health care option - oh, wait, it isn't confusing at all.

[Bude]

That's good, cause you don't have one.

[julia23]

So then why does he accept a tax payer's funded health care plan?

We need to take away congresses health care insurance if they don't think its a necessity.

[solarian]

no we don't need you still sucking on insurance money

[Gidster]

"We don't need reform"...­..

Yeah, the corporate "Donations" and "Gifts" from lobbyists keep rolling in, there is no fiscal reason they should ever want things to change. It might stop the gravy train!

[tomasedison]

Blunt is petrified that life might improve for America's middle class.

[alanposting]

Go ahead Roy, confuse us.

[Sensiblebg]

This is a grossly misleading article... Blunt didnt say "We dont need a healthcare plan", he just said that theres no point to offer an alternative because the liberal will automatically reject it because the sponsors will have (R) next to their names..

[MED1025]

Then why does he show up for work if he's going to do nothing?

[viewfromuphere]

what is no point is a guy who takes his paycheck and can't be bothered to earn it...

don't like Obama's plan...fin­e...come up something that you think will work....br­ing something to the table besides "tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts"

it's called put up or shut up....

[Clayton139]

Distraction's by the RICH-GOP-R­epublicans­. We the people will vote them all out !

We are behind you Mr. President Barack Obama !

We want change and that still means business as usual Mr. President
Go to the people and talk to us, we are behind you all the way !.

"Stick with Healthcare"

[catgirl666]

translatio­n... "I am a millionaire and I don't care about health care for the little people"
Gop motto, I got mine, s..cr..ew you.

[julia23]

Its more like 'your taxes are paying my health care, but you don't get any'

[loki]

he is right, they dont need one. They know this is all an act to pretend to be doing what was promised during the election. They know no health care that does anything but increase the wealth of the insurance company and the mega rich who profit dearly off the suffering of the middle class and the poor.

[Deja Peterson]

this will be their waterloo.

[JessWonderin]

They wrote on the back of the numberless budget they submitted . . . in the SAME invisible ink.

[Marcospinelli]

I think that people mistakenly believe that Obama&Democrats want public health care.

If TheBushYears taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush&Rove were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew; Bush&Rove were just more ruthless (clumsy & careless many political graybeards would say) in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine & the oldest, most experienced politicians in our nation's history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush&Cheney off the table & have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches&pitchforks?

Obama&Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but that they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them in spite of their failure to deliver on any of our alleged shared objectives.

[julia23]

What elections have happened since Obama took office? Who have we kept reelecting?

You can't just compare things without basis. Bush did that, therefore everyone does that and Obama does too.

You make little sense.

[ladyearth]

Let's be blunt. No brain, no plan.