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People who say the Republicans have no plan are lying or are ignorant. Those are the only two possibilities, since there is clearly a Republican plan.
And why do people vote thumbs down on people who want tort reform? Are you all plantiffs lawyers? I thought libs hated the rich? Tort lawyers make millions and millions and the plantiffs get peanuts.
Here are the Republican principles:
Make quality health care coverage affordable and accessible for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions.
Protect Americans from being forced into a new government-run health care plan that would: a) eliminate the health care coverage that more than 100 million Americans currently receive through their job; b) limit your choice of doctors and medical treatment options; and c) result in the federal government taking control of your health care.
Let Americans who like their health care coverage keep it, and give all Americans the freedom to choose the health plan that best meets their needs.
Ensure that medical decisions are made by patients and their doctors, not government bureaucrats.
Improve Americans’ lives through effective prevention, wellness, and disease management programs, while developing new treatments and cures for life-threatening diseases.
Here are the specifics:
Brings greater fairness to the tax code by extending tax savings to those who currently do not have employer-provided insurance but purchase health insurance on their own. This provision would provide an “above the line” deduction that is equal to the cost of an individual’s or family’s insurance premiums.
· Provides immediate substantial financial assistance, through new refundable and advanceable tax credits, to low- and modest-income Americans.
· Recognizes that many Americans who have not yet hit retirement age but may be changing jobs or have lost a job often face higher health care costs. To help those aged 55 to 64, the plan increases support for pre- and early-retirees with low- and modest-incomes.
· Recognizes that one of the largest obstacles for many small businesses when it comes to retaining current employees or creating new jobs is the cost of health insurance. The plan allows states, small businesses, associations, and other organizations to band together and offer health insurance at lower costs.
· Implements comprehensive medical liability reform that will reduce costly, unnecessary defensive medicine practiced by doctors trying to protect themselves from overzealous trial lawyers.
· Provides Medicare and Medicaid with additional authority and resources to stop waste, fraud, and abuse that costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year.
· Creates incentives to save now for future and long-term health care needs by improving health savings accounts and flexible spending arrangements as well as creating new tax benefits to offset the cost of long-term care premiums.
· Gives financial help to caregivers who provide in-home care for a loved one.
Makes it easier for Americans to keep health care coverage regardless of a change in or loss of a job.
· Encourages states to create a Universal Access Program by establishing and/or reforming existing programs to guarantee all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable coverage.
· Strengthens employer-provided health coverage by helping the 10 million uninsured Americans who are eligible, but not enrolled in, an employer-sponsored plan get health care coverage. The plan does this by encouraging employers to move to opt-out, rather than opt-in rules.
· Helps employers offer health care coverage to their workers by reducing their administrative costs through a new small business tax credit.
· Recognizes that not all high school and college graduates are able to find a job that offers health care coverage after graduation. By allowing dependents to remain on their parents’ health policies up to the age of 25, the number of uninsured Americans could be reduced by up to 7 million.
· Provides flexibility to Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiaries by allowing them to apply the value of their benefit to a health plan that better meets their needs than the one-size-fits-all government program.
Promotes prevention and wellness by giving employers and insurers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who seek to achieve or maintain a healthy weight, quit smoking, and manage chronic illnesses like diabetes.
· Rewards high-quality care, instead of encouraging health care providers to order more and unnecessary services.
· Uses new and innovative treatment programs to better coordinate care between health care providers, ensuring that those with chronic disease receive the care they need and do not continue to fall through the crac
1. Make it so that insurance companies cannot turn you down due to preconditions.
2. Allow insurance to be bought across state lines providing more competition and lowering prices.
3. Torte reform so that doctors don’t have to do unnecessary tests to keep from being sued.
4. Medical coverage only to be given to American citizens
5. No federal dollars to be spent on abortions directly or indirectly
6. tax credits that cover the costs of buying insurance
Isn’t it sad that the democrats won’t let any of these ideas come to the floor. They won’t cost nearly as much as the democrats’ plans.
The main sources of the huge cost of health insurance can be addressed without changing the entire nature of our health care system since the vast majority is satisfied with what they have.
First, get rid of government regulations that prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.
Second, tort reform. Make it more difficult for unworthy lawsuits to be brought against doctors.
Third, make health insurance customizable and put it in control of individuals instead of their employers.
Fourth, those who can’t afford insurance get bids from 3 insurance companies. They send these bids to the government, which picks the cheapest to subsidize. This would also be applicable to those who are not necessarily poor, but who have costly medical problems
Yes….
Provide laws reforming the rules of coverage but no government sponsorship and no requirement of coverage.
Republicans don;t want to absorb health care, only regulate it as carefully as possible without limiting progress or destroying a free economy while avoiding a deficit nightmare and a big brother society.
1. Remove government-mandated obstacles to the free market principles.
2. Tort (the part of the civil justice system that allows for lawsuits seeking damages: for instance, it used to be Loser Paid Attorney Fees/Court Costs. That was changed, since it was said that kept people from having access to justice because they couldn’t pay those high costs. the result of the change was an explosion in frivolous lawsuits the magnitude of which has completely stalled our civil courts) Reform: to put a cap on punitive (not actual) damages awarded to winners of malpractice suits. $65 million on top of actual costs of the malpractice, for instance, as punishment.
3. Recognizing that no more than individuals can be forced to become healthcare providers, patients cannot expect to get things for free.
Your not listening, you will never change your mind.
TORT REFORM!
Don’t see it in any bill.
The Dems are not talking reform they are talking TAKEOVER!
“Let me make this perfectly clear, I am for a single payer system.”
B. H. Obama
Sound like reform to you?
Status quo.
Edit: The Republicans’ suggestions all amount to very little, ineffective or no change to the current situation.
Their touted tort reform, for instance, has been shown to be ineffective in addressing any major health coverage issues, including health care costs, in the states where it has already been instituted.
tort reform and more competition. I agree that tort reform could help, and more competition might help too.
However, how much money and power would a company need to have to compete as an insurance company? How could we guarantee solvency of smaller, less established insurance companies? some of these companies go out of business then the patient can’t get anyone else to cover them because they developed a condition while on the insurance.
The for-profit insurance companies are incapable of solving this crisis. It is unrealistic for us to expect this from insurance companies.
Well, I’m a conservative, not a Republican, but I would like to eliminate ALL government interference with the free market so that we get back to a world where corporations succeed or fail based on how well they please their clients. Liberals just won’t let it happen, though. They like having Big Brother dictate to us all.
They don’t have any plan. They have added 100′s of markups to the Baucus Bill that have been voted included by the Democrats that Republicans say won’t work with them.
It should be that each one of us is responsible for our own health care. I do not expect the government to do it for me. And why should I pay for illegals and people who do not work?
they have no plan of their own, their only objective is to deny ANY reform so they can use the failure to defeat obama/dems in 2010 and 2012.
Support tort reform. Less frivolous lawsuits, more doctors working. Then if you want health insurance, buy it like the rest of us.
The present system fill the pockets of Republicans ..why would anybody want change
Research H.B. 3400 for starts. It’s just one of the bills from the republicans that the lying libs say don’t exist.
don’t get sick and if you do actually die slowly.. so they can rape your wallet on your deathbed!
Let the poor die.