wouldn't require either individuals or employers to get coverage.
It avoids expanding the federal role in overseeing the health insurance industry.
it would not set up new federally regulated purchasing pools for individuals and small businesses.
it would allow individuals to use the Internet to purchase lower-cost coverage available anywhere in the country.
The plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals.
The GOP bill would take on medical malpractice, limiting jury awards for pain and suffering and creating new health courts in which a specially trained judge would hear and decide cases involving medical negligence.
It isn't a government take over but entitles everyone to get available insurance and pools the coverages on a website so people can compare and should drive prices down through competition
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/house_GOP_health_bill/2009/07/29/241516.html
EDIT: This is the republican version of reform.
It is NOT a public option. There would be not takeover under this option. It simply seems much better than Hussein Obama's idea for complete take over.
Edit:
APR: What do we do with an the uninsured? Medicaid is a failure. Ever since Nixon passed that law that enabled the health care to dictate prices they flew up.
Disco Stu
This bill is just for show. It doesn't have a prayer of passing, no matter how much sense it makes.
Erin
I support getting rid of/reforming the system we have now and getting something better, I don't care how it's done.
apr
No! I think it's just another step toward this nation being a socialist nation. I think that it would give the government too much control.
Tom Sawyer
Do not be fooled by what Obama is saying because it will not work the way he says it will.
You cannot have cheap Government run Insurance and private Insurance that your job offers.
That is the same thing as no man can serve to masters it does not work.
vertical and dangerous
Yes, as much as many here on YA wouldn't admit, the modifications and changes offered by the Republicans address specific issues that have proven to be destructive to health care.
Obama won't accept anything less than a wholesale replacement of our current system!
'You don't throw out the baby with the bath water!'
cantcu
No I don't support the Republican bill at it is not reform.
They always want to give tax-cuts and credits. That is great if you have money and don't need Health care.
What do you say to half of America who earn less than $ 30,000 a year when the average cost of an insurance policy is $ 13,000! You really think a Tax credit is going to help them, or a person making minimum wage of $ 10,000 a year, which is $ 3,000 less than insurance.
Mean income in the US fell from $ 44,000 a year to $ 42,000 a year. How is a tax credit going to help someone who already gives 30% of their income to the government.
As usual the Republicans bill does nothing for those who do not have insurance, but gives windfalls to Insurance companies. Why am I not surprised?
No thanks!
mopar Mike
Pretty much every Liberal I know does not support this health care bill.
It's interesting to me to watch Cons yell "ALL LIBERALS SUPPORT THIS BILL !!!"
False, the only people who support this bill are sad people who haven't actually read it, understand it and realize what it will really do.
I work amonst a haven of Liberals and pretty much all of them are 100% against this bill. The few who support it are the employees we joke about being stupid.
JimSock
Which plan are you talking about? There are several of them. Five in Congress.
Obama plan. Not in congress but, outlined during the campaign.
Finance committee plan. Call to Action Health Reform
Tri committee plan
House Democratic bill
GOVERNMENT-RUN PLAN Health and Human services
The federal-state insurance program. Medicaid reform
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Empowering Patients First Act
Everybody is talking about something different.
Scott W
Here is the deal:
Simply put, health care, like any other multi trillion dollar business entity, needs a shakeout of its non working parts. we must put the dysfunction out of things.
Here's the problem:
There are too many special interest groups who want their hand int he pie, and the pie never will get baked.
Each person is their own special interest group, and is also, by the same token, the smallest minority groups out there. We need to stand up and fight for our own individual rights for the best of the best.
Finally, let's face this other fact. The countries currently using governmental run systems have the US to thank, since we are still able to do innovative research. We never hear of great medical strides in other countries that haven't begun with good old American ingenuity.
The Patriot
I am amazed that so many Americans are not aware about Obama's healthcare plans. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/world/us_democrats_reveal_health_care_plan During the election, he campaigned for these changes http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/table/2008/oct/01/uselections.healthcare stating that he felt it was unfair to have a system where insurance companies try to escape paying claims. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cxyjHsK0M In addition, insurance company executives have admitted this. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/26/us-healthcare-obama-barack-change They admit that they drive up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay for valid claims.
Remember, he was elected to bring in these changes, elected by the American people who want healthcare reform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erspfMkqLN4 And he discussed his plans in debates with McCain, and he still won the election.
First of all, too many people do not know that Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. His system is similar to that which works in Holland and Switzerland. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2008/May/Universal-Mandatory-Health-Insurance-in-The-Netherlands--A-Model-for-the-United-States.aspx It works there and private healthcare companies provide most the insurance to the people there.
FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet.
FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage.
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage. And no western European nation with universal healthcare has moved away from it.
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