House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement after Members of the House GOP Health Care Reform Solutions Group outlined its proposal to reduce costs and expand Americans access to affordable health care:
"Health care reform is a bipartisan priority, but the Democrats plan for government-run health care is not the change Americans want. Their new government-run program will make health care more expensive, raise taxes, ration care, and empower bureaucrats to make key medical decisions instead of patients and doctors. It will force at least 23 million Americans to lose their current health care plan, and force them into a massive new government-run plan that will crowd out all competition. Middle-class families and small businesses simply dont support a government takeover of health care, and neither should Congress.
House Republicans have a better plan to reduce costs, expand access, and increase the quality of care in a way that Americans can afford. Our plan focuses on innovative preventive and wellness programs to help avoid serious, and costly, illnesses. It gives states tools to design innovative programs that make health care coverage more affordable for everyone, while providing more Americans incentives to buy health care they cannot afford now. Our proposal allows small businesses to band together and provide insurance for their employees at a lower cost, just as large corporations and unions do. And it roots out waste, fraud, and abuse that costs taxpayers billions, while reining in junk lawsuits that make health care more costly for everyone.
Unlike the Democrats government takeover of health care, this common-sense plan keeps patients and doctors in charge of key medical decisions. I thank Rep. Blunt, as well as Reps. Dave Camp (R-MI), Buck McKeon (R-CA), Joe Barton (R-TX), and all the Members of our Republican Solutions Group for their work on this proposal, and I urge Democrats in Washington to give it serious consideration during the health care debate this summer.
NOTE: The plan outlined by the House Republican Health Care Reform Solutions Group, led by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), is designed to: * Make quality health care coverage affordable and accessible for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions. * Protect Americans from being forced into a new government-run health care plan that would eliminate the health care coverage that more than 100 million Americans currently receive through their job. * Let Americans who like their health care coverage keep it, and give all Americans the freedom to choose the health plan that best meets their needs. * Ensure that medical decisions are made by patients and their doctors, not government bureaucrats. * Improve Americans lives through effective prevention, wellness, and disease management programs, while developing new treatments and cures for life-threatening diseases.
Boehner said the GOP plan also maintains current law provisions regarding restrictions on federal funding of abortion services, and does not impose mandates either on insurance carriers or medical providers to participate in activities that violate their religious and moral beliefs.
For information on the House GOP health care reform proposal, visit the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group website HERE. For more information on the Democrats government takeover of health care, visit http://healthcare.gopleader.gov.
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Devil comes in many forms nice suite nice small's and Nice lies don't mix
OzoneBX 6 months ago
How?
bassEADG 1 year ago
Is it just my memory going bad or didn't the Bail out mess start while Bush was in office? Why is it that the current President keeps getting the kicks because the plans Bush started didn't work?
ShoreiKa 1 year ago
What a long winded way of saying absolutely nothing, ummmm, what are the details of your plan? Does it happen to eliminate the denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions? Will 50% of bankruptcies still be due to health care bills (even for theprivately insured)? Will someone with breast cancer in remission be able to get coverage and not be tossed into the unaffordable high -risk pool? Hello? hello?blah blah blah govt run talking point, etc...blah blah
ldinaustin 2 years ago
Tunedup81...Did you know that in the 2000 election while they were doing the recount, Overseas ballots for Florida were coming in and Al Gore's lawyers had them thrown out based on speculation that the military most likely vote a conservative in office...So who was actually trying to steal the election HUH?
nitagirl614 2 years ago
im not vouching for them because I am a Ron Paul supporter but who has better ideas? Obamas socialized health care? We can just turn into the Soviet Union of the 21st century.
numbr1stunnr7099 2 years ago
Yea.. I see the descrepancies in regards to Bush and his 2000 election. Though I cant speak for these yahoo's behind the podium but I do know that the president is not decided upon Americans as a Democracy like other nations. We have Electoral Govenors that decide who becomes our next President.. The votes we place are supose to give those E.Govenors a good idea as to what the Public wants.. and in a fairly close decesion like in 2000 they choose who they feel best fit to run our government.
Tunedup81 2 years ago
Google the GAO Reports for 2000 and 2004 elections and look for yourself. If you aren't aware of it but it's never too late. Hopefully, you'll conclude like many of us that these guys (boner especially) should be in jail not standing behind a podium talking about "healthcare".
callouschristian 2 years ago
How do they rigg elections?
Tunedup81 2 years ago
They should actually be in jail - people get life for doing less than these criminals spent eight years doing!! We now have domestic terrorists involved in our healthcare debate, while they still draw profits from the fiasco......the trainwreck continues. We should take a lesson from iran and not be nearly as nice about it. Are the american people so apathetic about our country that we can't oust cowards from power?
callouschristian 2 years ago