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DesideriScuri -> RE: Democrat Senators Running for the Hills on Obamacare (11/7/2013 10:14:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
What is your alternative? What is your solution?
A solution isn't a bigger clusterfuck, cloudboy. That's the point. Passing something just so they can say they tried is stupid. Even if the claims that Obamacare is a clusterfuck because of Republicans, it's still a clusterfuck and was known to be so even as it was being passed. The Democrats had to something - anything - so they could tout it and start buying voters.
Tort reform
Separating care providers from insurance companies
Preventing patent extension for Big Pharma
Those are things that could very easily have been done and weren't.
The Medicare "savings" that were touted by both sides of the aisle weren't passed until Obamacare because... why? If those savings were there, shouldn't they have been taken care of regardless of Obamacare or not? They were part of Paul Ryan's House budget proposal. They were touted by the President and the Democrats. Why wasn't it done outside of Obamacare?
The HEART Act of 1993 (the GOP alternative to Hillarycare) included an individual mandate for insurance, but it also offered tax incentives to businesses and to individuals for qualified medical expenditures. So, it had both a stick and a carrot, while Obamacare simply has a stick.
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