House GOP Serves Up Reheated Proposal To 'Repeal And Replace' New Health Care Law

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House Republicans are returning to their promise of repealing the Democrats' health care reform law with a retread of their own alternative plan that a Congressional Budget Office analysis last year determined would provide coverage for next to no one. Just in time for the midterm elections, the Republicans introduced legislation to scrap "Obama care" -- even parts that voters like -- and sub in their own version.

As a refresher, their plan would let people buy insurance across state lines, give states more power and would include tort reform to end so-called "junk lawsuits" that the Republicans say make health care costs more expensive. The CBO score last fall found the GOP plan would cover just 3 million more people "leaving about 52 million" without insurance at about the same as the 2009 share of uninsured people. It would reduce premiums by between zero and three percent, CBO said. To hear the Republicans tell it, the measure would decrease premiums by "up to 20 percent." It reduces the deficit over time, but so does the Democrats' law.

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A Democratic Hill staffer sent me their breakdown of the GOP proposal, charging it would add $75 billion to the deficit, reduce the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by at least 10 years, reopen the Medicare Part D "Donut Hole.' Democrats are framing the repeal effort as the Republicans wanting to roll back all the good elements that have already kicked in, but a GOP aide says a portion of their plan is the same as the new law because it also would ban insurers from discriminating based on preexisting conditions and allow children to stay on their parents' insurance longer.


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Doug Thornell, a spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen, was quick to blast the GOP plan: "This 9-page campaign pamphlet is a bill only health insurance companies would love and isn't worth the paper it's printed on."

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[pinboy3niner]

1. "Reheated"? More like "warmed over FAIL plan"

With brilliant ideas like this, they may be in for a rude surprise in November. They actually expect to take control of the House like THIS?

[AndyA]

2. So, the "new" Republicon plan is about what we'd expect from them...

1. Don't get sick.

2. If you do get sick, die quickly.

Pathetic that anyone thinks the GOP is going to do anything to try to help them.

[Bitwit1234]

3. That's the one they created from 'THE BLANK SHEET OF PAPER'