The GOP Has No Healthcare Plan. It is only willing to cut. The nation's throat is next.

Most Americans falsely believe that legislation other than Obamacare prevents private insurance companies from denying coverage.

Alan: A conservative physician friend (recently retired) employed a full-time secretary to hassle with tight-fisted insurance companies. In addition to this dedicated secretary, he himself spent four hours a day negotiating needed healthcare for his patients.

Alan: The GOP supports cost-cutting healthcare policies that dig early graves for tens of millions of Americans. It has already happened in Arizona and Indiana. In the toss-up between tax cuts and cutting someone's throat, the GOP always goes for the jugular.  

"Obamacare And The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-fact-of.html

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"The Real Death Panels" 

tp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/31/AR2010123103678.html

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The intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party is starkly apparent in the healthcare debate. The GOP's "best" suggestions to date save half as much money as Obamacare (according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office), extend coverage to 90% fewer people and raise rates for those Americans who are less healthy. 

There is no arguing with deeply held belief. Since conservatives believe "the free market" will generate enough competition to lower healthcare costs, no government intervention is possible that will not be seen as an impediment to the panacea of unregulated capitalism. 

Against this belief system, it is deemed meaningless that American healthcare - chiefly ruled by the private sector for the last 100 years - has led to stratospheric costs while denying care and/or coverage to an increasing number of citizens. At the same time, the high cost of care - even among those who think their coverage is good (at least until they really need it) - is the chief cause of bankruptcy in the "United" States.

The upshot of private sector healthcare is this: Those Americans who need affordable healthcare most will be least likely to get it. 

For decades, private insurance companies have acted as death panels and they themselves have been unduly eager for the individual mandate that is necessary to prevent collapse of the existing system. 

And if Obamacare is overturned and private insurers hunker down to serve only those who can pay the stratospheric cost of care, there will soon be so much havoc "at the margins" of free market healthcare that there will be fighting in the streets.

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Excerpt (from "US Republicans eye health plan should court overturn reform"):

"In an article titled "How to Replace Obamacare," in the current edition of the quarterly journal National Affairs... two analysts... call for changing existing laws to protect people with pre-existing conditions and adopting policies that would better encourage reform initiatives at the state level.

Similar ideas and others have been circulating for years in Republican legislative proposals that have never become law.

Some call for insurance reforms allowing individuals to buy insurance from other states or for letting small businesses, churches and civic organizations form new insurance pools.

Proposals also would protect doctors and other healthcare providers from malpractice suits and convert Medicare into a program that provides vouchers to help the elderly and disabled meet the cost of purchasing private insurance.

But some of those ideas have been found wanting in the past.

In 2009, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office examined a Republican proposal that sought to allow the interstate sale of insurance, imposed medical malpractice reforms and offered incentives for state-level reforms.

The CBO found the plan would cut the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years, extend coverage to only 3 million uninsured and raise insurance rates for some, including those less healthy.

By contrast, the CBO has said the Affordable Care Act would reduce the deficit by $132 billion through 2019." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/22/usa-healthcare-republicans-idUSL2E8FJH1K20120422

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