GOP – Putting Their Healthcare Alternative Where Your Mouth Is

By Elizabeth Nelson

You asked for it – Now you’re going to get it.

How many times have we had to sit by and listen to the whiny liberals say, “So Republicans, what’s your plan for healthcare” not realizing that not only did we have one, but the Majority Leader, Rat Reed wouldn’t allow Tom Price’s HR-2300 to come up for a vote, cowering behind the Demi-god’s healthcare train-wreck agenda.

Ironically, all Rat Reed did was give us more time to watch this CLUSTER in all its “glory” and give us yet another chance to come up with another replacement for Obamacare.  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is one of three Senators, the other two being, Senator Orrin Hatch (R- Ut) and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), who said it is their goal to repeal the Obamacare, in favor of their Patient Care Act, Patient Choice.

Coburn says this alternative eliminates most of the federal Healthcare Act's government-imposed coverage mandates and offers tax breaks to help those with lower incomes obtain coverage.

"For millions of Americans, Obamacare itself has become a preexisting condition that has caused them to lose their insurance, their doctors and their choices.

Congress has a responsibility to not only repeal this misguided law but replace it with a plan that will provide better care at a lower cost, and will help preserve programs like Medicaid instead of driving them closer to bankruptcy," said Senator Dr. Tom Coburn

"It is unfortunate the Senate Majority Leader blocked a vote on an alternative in 2009. But it's critical we chart another path forward. Our health care system wasn't working well before Obamacare and it is worse after Obamacare. Americans deserve a real alternative, and a way out. I'm pleased to take this important step with my colleagues."

According to a news release from three senators, the Patient CARE Act provides a legislative roadmap to fully repeal the President's health care law, known as Obamacare, and replace the law with common-sense measures that would:

Establish sustainable, patient-centered reforms:

Adopt common-sense consumer protections

Create a new protection to help Americans with pre-existing conditions

Empower small business and individuals with purchasing power

Empower states with more tools to help provide coverage while reducing costs

Expand and strengthen consumer directed health care

Modernize Medicaid to provide better coverage and care to patients:

Transition to capped allotment to provide states with predictable funding and flexibility

Reauthorize Health Opportunity Accounts to empower Medicaid patients

Reduce unnecessary defensive medicine practices and rein in frivolous lawsuits:

Medical Malpractice reforms

Increase health care price transparency to empower consumers and patients:

Requiring basic health care transparency to inform and empower patients

Reduce distortions in the tax code that drive up health care costs:

Capping the exclusion of an employee's employer-provided health coverage

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I understand, that probably sounds like medical gobble-dee goop, so a side-by-side comparison to Obamacare can be found here.  So now we can clearly see, there is more than one option out there to replace this failing and economically unhealthy Unaffordable Care Act.

I guess I called this one, didn't I?

Liberal DemocRATS, what are U going to DO When GOP comes up w/alternate ideas/plans for BHO's FAILED policies:Healthcare,Immigration,Econony
— Elizabeth Nelson (@ElizabethNels0n) January 28, 2014

So, liberal Democrats are you going to stubbornly stick with this unhealthy program that is killing jobs and our economy, among other things, or are you going to hear the Republicans out? You know, those “nasty Republicans that you continuously enjoy vilifying? You condescendingly asked for another idea.