Tuesday, January 28, 2014

GOP senators seek Obamacare's repeal, and offer an alternative

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2014/01/27/gop-senators-seek-obamacares-repeal-and-offer-an-alternative/

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Despite more than three dozen failed efforts to repeal Obamacare in the House, a trio of Republican Senators is going to give it at least one more try by forwarding their own alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, are pushing non-mandated health care coverage, but still would require insurers to offer coverage. The group’s proposal – dubbed the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment, or CARE, Act — 
would expand the maximum premium ratio between the healthiest consumers and the sickest would be 5-to-1, wider than Obamacare’s 3-to-1 ratio. Individual states, however, could loosen or tighten the ratio on their own if they passed their own laws.
ok the first thing i see aside from this being a plan by a party that has never done anything that benefits "we the people" over big business ins., 
next the old psych out  they are sending control to the states, we know the damage that did when republican gov's were in charge, union busting, voter blocking, refusal to give you healthcare, escalated war on women need i go on?
Insurers would be prohibited from dropping individuals purely because of health status. Further, any consumer who has received “continuous coverage” from any insurer for at least the past 18 months could not be denied a health policy from other insurers if they switch plans and wouldn’t be forced to pay higher premiums. But there is no mention of simply denying coverage if an individual has had none. And presumably, the higher pricing ratio would help insurers cover costs.
“The American people have found out what is in Obamacare — broken promises in the form of increased health care costs, costly mandates, and government bureaucracy.  They don’t like it and don’t want to keep it,” Burr said in a prepared statement. “Our nation’s health care system was unsustainable before Obamacare, and the president’s health care plan made things worse.”
so far i don't see any difference except with the republican plan we know it's coming and we will once again be under the ins. co.'s thumb.  as far as making things worse we've heard that lie before about te economy that they screwed up and refused to help fix it,
then had they audacity to blame the Pres. for not cleaning up their mess fast enough.  we have found that it works they say that it's not but we are long pass believing liars.
don't be frooled again let there guy tell you better