cb1000rider wrote:
The alternative is "do nothing". The course of doing nothing leaves the vast majority of Americans on a track that would mean they can't afford to be old or sick, unless they're substantially wealthy. There would be mass migration to Canada... :-)
Here, my friend, you've fallen for Democrat propaganda. The alternative is not, and has never been, do nothing.
Republicans have proposed numerous alternatives, especially when Obamacare was being debated originally. Their proposals were dismissed by Democrats, who then insisted that Republicans had no plan. This was all a lie.
This past June, the House of Representatives has introduced HR 2300 (written by US Rep Tom Price, who is a doctor), which replaces Obamacare with a series of health care reforms, most notably:
-- It extends tax deductions for health insurance to those who buy as individuals, thus eliminating the incentive that favored employer-purchased insurance.
-- It gives patients true portability by making them the owners of their insurance – not their employers.
-- It gives doctors the real power to make treatment decisions, not insurance companies or the government.
-- It reforms medical liability laws and thus saves money by reducing the practice of defensive medicine.
As recently as two weeks ago, Republicans unveiled what they call the American Healthcare Reform Act, which also seems to be a decent alternative.
My point in bringing up these particular bills is not to endorse them, but to show that Republicans do have, and have had for years, alternatives to Obamacare. Many of these have been passed by the Republican controlled House, but Harry Reid refuses to even consider them in the Democrat controlled Senate, then pillories the Republicans by saying "They hate Obamacare but have no plan of their own", knowing all the time it's a lie. The media, which is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party these days, then repeats that mantra. The media claims to cover the topic of healthcare, then ignores proposed solutions from the very people they criticize for allegedly not having any.