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House Republican Solutions for Health Care Reform

9.30.2009



Expanding Access to Affordable Health Care

H.R. 198 Health Care Tax Deduction Act

H.R. 502 Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

H.R. 544 Flexible Health Savings Act

H.R. 879 Affordable Health Care Expansion Act

H.R. 1891 Sunset of Life Protection Act

H.R. 2607 The Small Business Health Fairness Act

H.R. 3217 Health Care Choice Act

H.R. 3218 Improving Health Care for All Americans Act

H.R. 3508 Healthy Savings Act

H.R. 3821 Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3822 Improved Access to Employer Financed Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3823 Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act

H.R. 3824 Expanded Health Insurance Options Act





Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Enhancing Transparency

H.R. 27 Medicare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act

H.R. 203 Medicare Fraud Prevention Act

H.R. 2249 Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act

H.R. 2785 Health Care Paperwork Reduction and Fraud Prevention Act



Medical Liability Reform

H.R. 1086 Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act

H.R. 1468 Medical Justice Act

H.R. 2787 Medical Liability Procedural Reform Act

H.R. 2975 Medical Practice Protection Act

H.R. 3372 Health Care Over Use Reform Today Act



Prevention/Wellness

H.R. 3468 Promoting Health and Preventing Chronic Disease through Prevention and Wellness Programs for Employees, Communities, and Individuals Act



Preserving Doctor/Patient Relationship

H.R. 2516 Medical Rights Act

H.R. 3002 Patients Act

http://blunt.house.gov/Read.aspx?ID=1204
 
Yurt said:
House Republican Solutions for Health Care Reform

9.30.2009



Expanding Access to Affordable Health Care

H.R. 198 Health Care Tax Deduction Act

H.R. 502 Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

H.R. 544 Flexible Health Savings Act

H.R. 879 Affordable Health Care Expansion Act

H.R. 1891 Sunset of Life Protection Act

H.R. 2607 The Small Business Health Fairness Act

H.R. 3217 Health Care Choice Act

H.R. 3218 Improving Health Care for All Americans Act

H.R. 3508 Healthy Savings Act

H.R. 3821 Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3822 Improved Access to Employer Financed Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3823 Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act

H.R. 3824 Expanded Health Insurance Options Act





Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Enhancing Transparency

H.R. 27 Medicare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act

H.R. 203 Medicare Fraud Prevention Act

H.R. 2249 Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act

H.R. 2785 Health Care Paperwork Reduction and Fraud Prevention Act



Medical Liability Reform

H.R. 1086 Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act

H.R. 1468 Medical Justice Act

H.R. 2787 Medical Liability Procedural Reform Act

H.R. 2975 Medical Practice Protection Act

H.R. 3372 Health Care Over Use Reform Today Act



Prevention/Wellness

H.R. 3468 Promoting Health and Preventing Chronic Disease through Prevention and Wellness Programs for Employees, Communities, and Individuals Act



Preserving Doctor/Patient Relationship

H.R. 2516 Medical Rights Act

H.R. 3002 Patients Act

http://blunt.house.gov/Read.aspx?ID=1204
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How about a single bill that the Republican caucus supports (from each house of Congress) and that can be scored by the CBO for budget neutrality as a counter to the bills the Democrats are putting forward in the House and Senate?

Everyone know that various Republicans have various ideas about healthcare. Christ, there are 218 Republican members of Congress. If none of the 218 had any ideas about healthcare reform that would be shocking. The trouble is that the Republicans as a party do not have a plan that enjoys the support of the party in either house of Congress or the leadership of the party in either house. That's what Cantor, Boehner and others promised back in June. A Republican Plan. They've still not delivered on it.
 
TurdFerguson said:
How about a single bill that the Republican caucus supports (from each house of Congress) and that can be scored by the CBO for budget neutrality as a counter to the bills the Democrats are putting forward in the House and Senate?

Everyone know that various Republicans have various ideas about healthcare. Christ, there are 218 Republican members of Congress. If none of the 218 had any ideas about healthcare reform that would be shocking. The trouble is that the Republicans as a party do not have a plan that enjoys the support of the party in either house of Congress or the leadership of the party in either house. That's what Cantor, Boehner and others promised back in June. A Republican Plan. They've still not delivered on it.
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by that standard the Democrats don't have a plan either....the Senate Democrats don't accept the House Democrats plan and the House Democrats don't accept the Senate Democrats plan.....
 
PostmodernProphet said:
by that standard the Democrats don't have a plan either....the Senate Democrats don't accept the House Democrats plan and the House Democrats don't accept the Senate Democrats plan.....
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By what standard? The House Democrats have a plan. The Senate Democrats have a plan. The House Republicans have no plan. The Senate Republicans have no plan. Clear enough for you?
 
PostmodernProphet said:
by the one you just set.....
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Perhaps I was misunderstood. I'm looking for a bill supported by either the House or Senate Republicans. There ain't one. And let's get real, the reason that there isn't one is that it is very, very difficult to craft and bill that expands coverage, improves coverage, lowers costs and is deficit-neutral and the Republicans aren't interested in figuring out how to make a bill like that without undermining their criticisms of the Democratic proposals.
 
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TurdFerguson said:
Perhaps I was misunderstood. I'm looking for a bill supported by either the House or Senate Republicans. There ain't one.
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and so far there isn't a bill that will pass the House and Senate Democrats so don't pretend things are any different....

And let's get real, the reason that there isn't one is that it is very, very difficult to craft and bill that expands coverage, improves coverage, lowers costs and is deficit-neutral
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which is why the Republican approach is better......we can accomplish actual reform without spending time spinning wheels over whether we should "revolutionize" the health care industry......
and the Republicans aren't interested in figuring out how to make a bill work that without undermining their criticisms of the Democratic proposals.
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don't feel lonesome, cowboy.....the Dems also aren't interested in making a bill work......and some of them, present company highlighted, pretend that the Republicans don't have proposals......
 
new Article added that wasn't in HR3200 called "Immediate Reforms"

#1 is called "National High Risk Pool Program" (not to be confused with "Public Option")....

certain people (not on SS, not covered by employee health plan, not currently covered by private health insurance, etc) may by paying a premium not to exceed 125% of what is charged by private plans be covered by a temporary program (until the Exchange kicks in, I presume) which will have a $1500 deductible, $5k copay.....

funded with $5billion.....if the $5billion runs out the program may (starting at Page 25)
(2) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.—If the Secretary es23
timates for any fiscal year that the aggregate
24 amounts available for payment of expenses of the
25 high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the ex-

26
1 penses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments
2 as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including
3 reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or estab
4 lishing waiting lists.
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It provides that all existing group health plans will rebate to enrollees any premiums which are collected less than an 85% medical loss ratio.....

It retains the special treatment for members of certain "employer based retirement plans"......the UAW clause.....
 
I'd say the republicans' approach is more realistic when it comes to actually getting something passed by putting their ideas into a bunch of smaller bills. This way they are not faced with the all-or-nothing (when no one can agree to the all) approach of the democrats.


With the gigantic rift between the house and senate versions of the democrats' single all-or-nothing plan, along with the fact that neither plan has even got enough democrats on board to assure passage (out of a super majority!), the republicans, in the end, have the greater chance of actually accomplishing something to positively affect those without adequate health coverage.
 
Yurt said:
House Republican Solutions for Health Care Reform

9.30.2009



Expanding Access to Affordable Health Care

H.R. 198 Health Care Tax Deduction Act

H.R. 502 Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

H.R. 544 Flexible Health Savings Act

H.R. 879 Affordable Health Care Expansion Act

H.R. 1891 Sunset of Life Protection Act

H.R. 2607 The Small Business Health Fairness Act

H.R. 3217 Health Care Choice Act

H.R. 3218 Improving Health Care for All Americans Act

H.R. 3508 Healthy Savings Act

H.R. 3821 Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3822 Improved Access to Employer Financed Health Insurance Act

H.R. 3823 Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act

H.R. 3824 Expanded Health Insurance Options Act





Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Enhancing Transparency

H.R. 27 Medicare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act

H.R. 203 Medicare Fraud Prevention Act

H.R. 2249 Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act

H.R. 2785 Health Care Paperwork Reduction and Fraud Prevention Act



Medical Liability Reform

H.R. 1086 Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act

H.R. 1468 Medical Justice Act

H.R. 2787 Medical Liability Procedural Reform Act

H.R. 2975 Medical Practice Protection Act

H.R. 3372 Health Care Over Use Reform Today Act



Prevention/Wellness

H.R. 3468 Promoting Health and Preventing Chronic Disease through Prevention and Wellness Programs for Employees, Communities, and Individuals Act



Preserving Doctor/Patient Relationship

H.R. 2516 Medical Rights Act

H.R. 3002 Patients Act

http://blunt.house.gov/Read.aspx?ID=1204
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Which is supported by the party, which has been scored by CBO, and which is merely hype and a delaying tactic?
 
none of them would be scored by the CBO until the committee (Democratically controlled) sent it to the floor....so obviously none of them.....I'm sure you would consider all of them mere delaying tactics.....the problem with that position is that any one of them would be an excellent solution to the problems people are facing WHILE the Dems delay....you have noticed that the Dems control Congress, right?.....they don't need a single Republican vote to pass anything they all agree on.....so don't talk to us about 'delay'.........
 
PostmodernProphet said:
none of them would be scored by the CBO until the committee (Democratically controlled) sent it to the floor....so obviously none of them.....I'm sure you would consider all of them mere delaying tactics.....the problem with that position is that any one of them would be an excellent solution to the problems people are facing WHILE the Dems delay....you have noticed that the Dems control Congress, right?.....they don't need a single Republican vote to pass anything they all agree on.....so don't talk to us about 'delay'.........
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Actually, that's not the way it works. The Republicans can request that the CBO analyze any of the above bills if they wanted the CBO to take a look at them. For example, here is a very recent CBO report on "Tort Reform" that was done at the request of Orinn Hatch:

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10641/10-09-Tort_Reform.pdf

Of course, you haven't heard much about this CBO report because the results aren't what Hatch and co. had in mind. A reduction in health spending of 0.5% isn't really going to move anyone much. And, of course, the Republicans haven't had any of the bills above analyzed because they aren't serious.
 
Hey, we may get to see a Republican Plan after all:

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in strategy as the full House is set to begin debate on the issue this week.

Mr. Boehner said Sunday the Republican bill would extend health-insurance coverage to "millions" of Americans but wouldn't try to match the scope of the House Democratic bill unveiled last week. The Democratic legislation, if passed, is estimated to expand coverage to more than 30 million Americans now without insurance. Its estimated gross cost is $1.055 trillion over 10 years.

"What we do is we try to make the current system work better," Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, said on CNN's "State of the Nation." The GOP plan would likely be less costly to taxpayers and involve less government intrusion into the private sector. Mr. Boehner said the bill would take "a step-by-step approach" to expanding coverage.

It would, among other things, propose new limits on medical malpractice lawsuits and make it easier for individuals and small businesses to pool resources to purchase insurance.

Mr. Boehner said the Republican bill would also propose grants for states that use "innovative" solutions to expand coverage. He pointed to states that have created special "high-risk pools" to provide insurance to individuals with pre-existing conditions.

He said the bill wouldn't raise taxes, nor mandate that individuals and businesses purchase insurance, as the Democratic legislation does.

For months, Republicans have attacked the Democratic health plan, hammering at pieces of the bill -- such as a proposed government-run health plan -- and helping to stir public doubt over the initiative.

By unveiling their own legislation, Republicans will be able to coalesce around a concrete plan. But they also open themselves to potential criticism of their proposals.

Republicans have talked about a variety of alternatives to Democratic efforts on health care, but decided to put out their own bill after seeing details of the legislation unveiled by Democrats last Thursday. GOP leaders hope to offer the measure as an alternative during debate on the Democratic bill, and a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Republicans would be allowed to do so.

In the Senate, where Democratic leaders are pushing a proposal to create a new government-run insurance plan, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, made clear again Sunday that he opposed the idea. The senator said he wouldn't try to block debate on the bill, but signaled he would support any Republican efforts to block a vote on it.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125711811707721639.html#articleTabs=article
 
PostmodernProphet said:
none of them would be scored by the CBO until the committee (Democratically controlled) sent it to the floor....so obviously none of them.....I'm sure you would consider all of them mere delaying tactics.....the problem with that position is that any one of them would be an excellent solution to the problems people are facing WHILE the Dems delay....you have noticed that the Dems control Congress, right?.....they don't need a single Republican vote to pass anything they all agree on.....so don't talk to us about 'delay'.........
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Turd has already explained that any member of either body can request a bill or a potential bill to be scored by CBO upon request. He is correct. The reason there has been no scoring of a GOP bill is because no bill exists at this point, the week of the final debate. You bought their lies.
 
TurdFerguson said:
Hey, we may get to see a Republican Plan after all:




http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125711811707721639.html#articleTabs=article
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The interview was a bit more lively than WSJ would have you believe. The announced "plan" was disclosed after boehner did quite a bit of "funfing" along the way in reply to the tougher questions. But as would any obedient Newscorp organ, they failed to report that portion of the interview. It should be remembered that the debate is already past the 11th hour and yet, after months of noise, the GOP still has no alternative bill. Time will tell if the GOP has any intention to introduce a serious bill or, in reality, they would rather there was no bill at all.
 
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