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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
The Republicans offered up a very reasonable plan, that addressed all the issues that people are concerned about. Tort reform, opening up competition, providing a hardship safety net for people who fall through the cracks, regulating industry the industry for pre-existing conditions, etc. The CBO scored the plan and found it actuall reduced costs. Their plan wouldn't raise taxes and punish businesses and explode the deficit like Obama/Pelosi would.
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The Republican plan most certainly did NOT address "all the issues that people are concerned about."
One of the issues people are concerned about - for example - is the 17% of Americans who currently have no health insurance. According to the CBO evaluation, the Republican plan....would make zero impact on that number over the next decade. That's right, they came up with a health care plan that doesn't provide people who don't have coverage with coverage.
I think that qualifies as an issue that at least
some people are concerned about.
Read for yourself:
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/127463
or read the CBO review itself:
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10705
The direct quote from them is:
"The share of legal nonelderly residents with insurance coverage in 2019 would be about 83 percent, roughly in line with the current share."
Listen, I'm not a big fan of this half-assed measure that the House passed (or the cowardly Democrats who passed it) but lets not pretend for one second that John Boehner has all the answers.