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Which is normal. But now that they are in the Majority, they have agreed to define a replacement for HealthCare.
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Well, "define" is kind of loosely used in this contect.
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Define implies a plan. The Republicans don't have a plan - per say. What they have is a plan to get a plan sometime in the future. And this new Plan for a Plan (tm) has some definite requirements. Let's look at this, shall we?
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H.R. 596,
which provides for the immediate repeal of the ACA, also instructs the chairs
of the relevant House committees to come up with legislation that satisfies a
number of conditions. The chairs must come up with provisions that:
(1)
foster economic growth and private sector job creation by eliminating
job-killing policies and regulations;
(2) lower health care premiums through increased competition and
choice;
(3) preserve a patient’s ability to keep his or her health plan
if he or she likes it;
(4) provide people with pre-existing conditions access to
affordable health coverage;
(5) reform the medical liability system to reduce unnecessary
and wasteful health care spending;
(6) increase the number of insured Americans;
(7) protect the doctor-patient relationship;
(8) provide the States greater flexibility to administer
Medicaid programs;
(9) expand incentives to encourage personal responsibility for
health care coverage and costs;
(10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and provide
conscience protections for health care providers;
(11) eliminate duplicative government programs and wasteful
spending; or
(12) do not accelerate the insolvency of entitlement programs or
increase the tax burden on Americans.
.Well, why hadn't we thought of this sooner. The plan should also include unicorns that fart rainbows and a baby big-foot in every pot. You see this set of goals - concurrently - is impossible to reach.
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ObamaCare has done #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #11. What the Republicans want - is all that for free. What I want is - for Dave Franco to come be my Pool Boy - and our odds are approximately the same.