GOP Health-Care Plan Still Due Any Day Now

New York:

How long can the Republicans keep up the pretense that they plan to come up with their alternative health-care-reform plan? I'm going to go with "forever." Robert Pear and Jonathan Weisman report in today's New York Times that the party is really working hard on that alternative plan:

Read the whole story at New York

Comments

[FunkSands]

10:34 PM on 05/17/2012

Their plan is total genius and textbook GOP operations.  The GOP has already come out and said that if the SCOTUS rules against the ACA, they'll come up with a way to keep all of the good stuff in it without the mandate.

Americans LOVE hearing that they can get all the goodies they want without paying for it.  This is going to swing some votes.

[MaxHeadroom]

10:04 PM on 05/17/2012

Don't blink: You'll miss their plan altogether.

Oh darn...You blinked...

To bad as you missed it. Better luck next time.

[martha high]

09:58 PM on 05/17/2012

It's obvious that the teapartiers and the republicans do not want health care for anybody but themselves , they are even trying to stop medicare and medicaid. Their solution is simple , the same thing they hollered out at the primary debate,,,Let'em die and as Alan Greyson from Florida said Let'em die fast.

[75thRangers]

09:46 PM on 05/17/2012

What's it been? 3years? It covers, them.....their family....we pay....thats it

[KrazyKitty]

09:45 PM on 05/17/2012

The GOP health care 'plan' is to have no plan at all. This way, they get themselves elected (with nice salaries and generous benefits, courtesy of their employers, the American people), whine about how inefficient 'big' government is, and how government 'doesn't work', and prove it. Fact is, the Republicans have never had a plan, beyond winning an election. Well, that, and making sure their top and only priority, in service to their country, is to make President Obama a one term president. They haven't actually thought about anything beyond that, with the exception of abortions, contraception and their rather creepy perverted obsession with all things sexual.

[basecamp]

09:21 PM on 05/17/2012

More from the Do Nothing Congress.

[zitlight73]

09:12 PM on 05/17/2012

Oh, they have a health care plan. It's the same one that's been foisted on the American public for over sixty years. Their health care plan increases the profits of the health insurance companies, big pharma, and the HMOs while denying health care to the average middle class American citizen.

[grainysmith]

09:01 PM on 05/17/2012

Even if we have insurance premium increases I am stoked that more of my fellow Americans will be insured and that many lives will be saved. We were having the increases anyway.

[MaxHeadroom]

10:05 PM on 05/17/2012

Single Payer would take care of that.

[grainysmith]

10:27 PM on 05/17/2012

Single payer... and people could still have private insurances and private doctors if that is what they want. I prefer single payer for myself.

[magicguy]

10:14 PM on 05/17/2012

maybe or maybe not, it the premiums are $4000 per year and the fine is $500 per year most who do not have coverage now will not buy it and pay the fine. This is also why big companies will drop coverage for employees because the fine will be much much less than the cost of covering the employees. Just a simple dollar and cents decision for big commpanies.

[1mansvoice]

08:55 PM on 05/17/2012

Then just want to tear the other kid's castle down....

[nana4g]

08:50 PM on 05/17/2012

As is their Jobs Plan, Immigration Reform, Educational Reform, Energy Plan, Sensible Budget Plan....All we know is what they think of women, the poor, ethnic groups other than white, Girl Scouts, Buddhists, Episcopalilans, Muslims, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Unemployed, Liberals, Food Stamps, Social Security, Medicare, and Iran and Russia.

[h8menow]

08:41 PM on 05/17/2012

As Alan Grayosn so eloquently put it...GOP health plan "Die quickly".

[Haris Bahtijaragic]

08:39 PM on 05/17/2012

Republican plan is always to do the opposite of what the Democrats are doing. So in order to pass a Healthcare bill Democrats have to trick the Republicans. One day all the Dems should say "Let's repeal Obamacare" then the Republicans would say "What, are you insane, Obamacare is great, Dems are so out of touch"

I can't believe the Dem congressmen have not figured this out already.

[sherrybb]

08:32 PM on 05/17/2012

The GOP will never have a health care plan because they do not believe in health care for all. it would interfere with the million dollar bonuses for wealthy health care executives. Besides, they believe that uninsured people are uninsured because they deserve it..they were not responsible like they (GOP'ers) are. The reality is the GOP care more for the insurance companies than they do for the people who need insurance. Sad, but true. Until many of those GOPer's in Congress are uninsured and face a devastating medical condition, nothing will be done. Odds of that...not much.

[nana4g]

08:50 PM on 05/17/2012

Amen. F&F.

[nana4g]

08:51 PM on 05/17/2012

Nothing means anything to them unless they, themselves, or one of their own, experiences it and then it is like it is the first time it ever happened to anyone and they just discovered it.

[Soylent Green is coming]

08:27 PM on 05/17/2012

Paul Ryan's voucher plan is actually a envelope with a cyanide pill.

[AbstractImp]

08:18 PM on 05/17/2012

I thought it was friends with benefits.