Lack of GOP leadership in healthcare continues.

American healthcare pre-Obamacare was a creeping disaster with high single digit growth in costs which resulted in incomplete coverage for the populace. The Republican solutions to this fact were quite plainly and by far insufficient. To this day the GOP holds on to the same paradigm it believed in a few short years ago.

THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NO COUNTER PLAN TO OBAMACARE.

We deserve Obamacare and the financial ruin that comes with it if Republicans can't or won't come up with a real plan.

This POTUS campaigned on health care reform. When elected, the Limbaughs and Hannitys and Becks began nonstop preaching to their minions. "If this POTUS is successful, our Country is lost." The POTUS asked for a bipartisan drafting of a health care reform bill. The Republicans refused to cooperate.
The bill that was drafted and passed is extremley flawed. Yet, there was zero assistance from across the aisle to put together a decent bill. All the Republicans wanted to do was talk about "death squads" and "socialism" and "they're gonna euthanize Granny". The Democrats had the votes... narrowly... and passed the bill, many without even reading it. But, they knew if Faux News kept up the constant rhetoric of making sure a health care bill did not pass, they might lose a single vote and the entire effort fail.

The ACA could be amended to delete the flawed components and enhance the good. All it would take would be for the Republicans to sit down with the Democratic Party to accomplish just that. However, the Tea Party Repubicans want the entire bill repealed. They tried that and it failed. Beck and Limbaugh began demanding that the Repubilcan led House "defund" the ACA. During the continuing resolution discussion, that was attempted. It, too, failed. Still, the Republicans have no desire to make appropriate changes to the bill. Instead, they now want the mandate delayed until they have a chance to win both houses of Congress in 2014.

As with so many issues, today, politics and lobbyists trump the good of the American people. Sad........

Well, the President didn't bother to negotiate recently over a year long delay he seems he should have taken when you consider his broken website fiasco. Now the Republicans don't need to negotiate anything. They shouldn't fix Obamacare at all. Obamacare is a bad solution and should live or die exactly as it is for the next 2 to 4 years. Hopefully it will die under its own weight and real market solutions are attempted.

https://www.politicaljack.com/threads/a-viable-alternative-to-the-affordable-care-act.57028/

resident_evil said:

American healthcare pre-Obamacare was a creeping disaster with high single digit growth in costs which resulted in incomplete coverage for the populace. The Republican solutions to this fact were quite plainly and by far insufficient. To this day the GOP holds on to the same paradigm it believed in a few short years ago.

THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NO COUNTER PLAN TO OBAMACARE.

We deserve Obamacare and the financial ruin that comes with it if Republicans can't or won't come up with a real plan.

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It's oft-mentioned that Obamacare is founded on the framework arrived at by the Heritage Foundation some time back, and on Romneycare. But whenever these factoids are mentioned in the context of a "discussion" around Obamacare, its detractorts dismiss them. They have a variety of reasons. The Heritage outline and Romneycare were "different", are the most commonly suggested.

Truth be told though, they're not nearly so different as Obamacare's haters would insist - ESPECIALLY as regards the Obamacare-hater's go-to angle, mandates. It's impossible to move towards a functioning healthcare free market, without some sort of mandate.

So...just as Mitt had had to deny his greatest accomplishment in order to run for the presidency, the right has now painted itself into the corner of having to suggest something better than Obamacare, even as Obamacare fits their traditional idea sets, to a tee.

The republicans have tried to introduce 30 some bills to help fix Obamacare, but good old Harry read stonewalls every one and refuses to let it come up for a vote. With obstructionists like this the only viable tactic is to wait until after the mid term elections and then start passing them all with a 51 vote as they will be the majority.
It will be fun to pass bills with no filibustering. The Democrats played the nuclear option, it will soon come back to haunt them.