Let's Discuss the GOP Health Plan!!

Your link for the bill is for HR3692, the House bill sponsored by the Democrats. The second link didn't work. According to the CBO, the GOP plan will cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years. "The CBO put the price tag for the GOP plan at $61 billion, a fraction of the $1.05 trillion cost estimate it gave to the House bill that lawmakers are set to vote on this weekend. And the CBO found that the Republican provision to reform medical malpractice liability would result in $41 billion in savings and increase revenues by $13 billion by reducing the cost of private health insurance plans." Who would it help? The CBO found it would help small businesses who would be able to more cheaply afford to give their employees health insurance. They also reported that it would decrease premium costs by seven to 10 percent for small businesses, and by five to eight percent for the individual market. That's going to help people get insurance for less money. Isn't that one of the goals? People with pre-existing conditions or who have trouble getting insurance would go into high risk pools. Basically that means there will be subsidies for companies to write them policies and they will get assigned to insurance companies. This method is one that is used for auto insurance in many states and we all know that Obama thinks auto insurance and health insurance are the same, so this should make even him happy. These people will get insurance under this plan. The CBO did NOT find that this plan would leave more people uninsured, it found that it would increase the number of insured by about 3 million and that over ten years the number of insured non-elderly adults would remain at about 83%. That means the number of uninsured would also remain constant at 17%, or at least that's how my math works it out. Who would it help? All of us, the taxpayers, those who have pre-existing conditions and working men and women who need lower premiums. It would help reducing medical costs through reform of the malpractice laws. What it won't do is force you to buy insurance at $15,000 per year or go to jail. It takes someone like Nancy Pelosi to threaten to imprison US citizens if they don't agree that the government has the right to force them to purchase a product. Of course, the Pelosi bill assumes that lots of people will pay the fine, that's how they plan to pay for it. And they wonder why people compare them to Nazis?

Gotta give some applause to Rep Stupak for the abortion amendment he is proposing.

I am a selfish old lady who wants nothing more than to get our of Medicare what I have already paid in taxes for and am still am paying for out of of my Social Security check. I want to keep the supplementary insurance I currently have and I want to still be in control of my own heath care. I do not want to pay for illegals getting health care - they have not paid any taxes into the Medicare system . I still agree that abortions should be paid for ONLY as a result of rape, incest or if the life of mother or child's life is in danger. I do not want my tax dollars to pay for abortions for any other reason. No links no lying quotes from greedy self centered politicians just my own honest opinion. Like it or lump it I really do not care because however it turns out I am very sure I am going to get screwed.

The first link didn't do anything for me, the page was just white but the second link worked. I started reading and thought hmmm that sounds like John McCain's plan. Then I got to the part where it says something about offering the states incentives to reduce costs, but my favor was the "Increase incentives for people to use health savings accounts", those Republicans should have to turn in their great health insurance and use a health savings account. Then the public can see what those ba$stards have to say about HSA's. I swear the next time I hear one of those idiots claim this is the greatest nation in the world I will want to punch them and make them actually read the stories about people dying of curable illnesses because they don't have health insurance.

I agree with you 100%, this isn't a plan by the GOP, it is a plan by the insurance industry. They had years to reform health care, and they did nothing.

Who cares about Democrats and Republicans?

Just the fact that the Democrat's bill forces me to take what I don't want makes me favor the Republican's plan over the Democrat's.