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11/4 9:28a
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Not an endorsment... Just staying informed. 
Summary:
Republicans’ Common-Sense Reforms Will LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS
Americans want a step-by-step, common-sense approach to health care reform, not Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s costly, 1,990-page government takeover of our nation’s health care system. Republicans’ alternative solution focuses on lowering health care premiums for families and small businesses, increasing access to affordable, high-quality care, and promoting healthier lifestyles – without adding to the crushing debt Washington has placed on our children and grandchildren. Following are the key elements of Republicans’ alternative plan:
• Lowering health care premiums. The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing Americans’ number-one priority for health care reform.
• Establishing Universal Access Programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions. The GOP plan creates Universal Access Programs that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable care – while lowering costs for all Americans.
• Ending junk lawsuits. The GOP plan would help end costly junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine by enacting medical liability reforms modeled after the successful state laws of California and Texas.
• Prevents insurers from unjustly cancelling a policy. The GOP plan prohibits an insurer from cancelling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts about a health condition.
• Encouraging Small Business Health Plans. The GOP plan gives small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as corporations and labor unions do.
• Encouraging innovative state programs. The GOP plan rewards innovation by providing incentive payments to states that reduce premiums and the number of uninsured.
• Allowing Americans to buy insurance across state lines. The GOP plan allows Americans to shop for coverage from coast to coast by allowing Americans living in one state to purchase insurance in another.
• Promoting healthier lifestyles. The GOP plan promotes prevention & wellness by giving employers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who adopt healthier lifestyles.
• Enhancing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The GOP plan creates new incentives to save for current and future health care needs by allowing qualified participants to use HSA funds to pay premiums for high deductible health insurance.
• Allowing dependents to remain on their parents’ policies. The GOP plan encourages coverage of young adults on their parents’ insurance through age 25.
Read the actual Bill here....
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
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11/4 1:12p
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Did you run this by Princess Pelosi and the gang at 1600? Not the article, but thinking for yourself, it`s not allowed in the New Change America! LOL!!!
 
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11/4 4:42p
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Its a better idea than the democrat bill for sure. It has common sense ideas which Pelosi will never like. It lacks gov takeover of your health care & life.
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11/4 5:39p
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I like the ideal of getting rid of state boundaries. I should be able to buy my insurance from whoever I choose. I`m still up in the air on pre-existing conditions.
Over all..... I like the fact that it does more to get government out of it rather than making government all of it.
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11/7 11:46p
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State boundaries do run up cost. Without them you could shop for cheaper rates in many more places.As for preexisting conditions, I can see the ins companies side. Why should they charge the same for someone in bad health as someone in good health.You wouldn`t want to pay the same auto ins rates as a person with a bad driving record.
I agree with you on one thing for sure. I like getting gov out of it.
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11/8 1:51a
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The CBO has calculated that the Republican plan will lead to NO INCREASE in Americans with health insurance.
What a plan.
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11/8 6:03a
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Just how many Americans don`t have health care? Of that group, how many choose not to have it?
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11/8 10:00a
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..."What a plan."...
You mean another extensive plan that changes nothing substantial.
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11/8 10:34a
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Plus one must ask if the GOP was so full of great ideas for reforming Health care why they waited until they were out of power to share it with us? They had 6 years of control under Bush and spent like drunken sailors but we didn`t get health care reform.
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11/8 1:54p
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I fully expect any number of stupid remarks to this so don`t let me down!
Maybe, since what we have is far and away the best health care in the world and also putting aside the fact the this administration seems bent on dragging America down to everyone else`s level, what makes you or any Lib think that government can improve on what we have now? I will leave out the fact that those in the elitist government don’t have to take part in the same plan as us common foke! Name just one thing that government can do better than the private sector, just one? I would guess these government hacks know there political carriers are over!
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11/8 2:42p
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quote:
The CBO has calculated that the Republican plan will lead to NO INCREASE in Americans with health insurance.
What a plan.
Correct... The republicans left out the Socialist part which you and yours love so much!
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