Democrats Want to See Republicans Health Care Plan
Democrats are turning the health care debate around and attacking the Republicans suggesting they do not have a plan. The Republicans have offered suggestions but they have largely been ignored. To date the Republicans haven’t put together a bill in opposition to the Dems. Some Republicans find this worrisome.
“The Grand Old Party’s coffers are empty when it comes to health care reform,” Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Democrats’ second-ranking Senate leader, said Thursday.
It’s true. The AP writes:
Republican leaders chose not to draft their own comprehensive bill, focusing instead on attacking Democrats’ plans as too costly and bureaucratic. Some prominent Republicans now fear they are getting tagged as the “party of no,” and they want the GOP to offer more solutions to the nation’s health care problems.
Frankly I am fine with no. I don’t want a huge bureaucratic nightmare of a system that the Democrats are marching through Congress. I don’t want anything to do with it. It if takes saying no, then fine. No it is. I wish their plan would die in an inglorious death. I would like for them to start over.
I agree health care costs need to be controlled. Some people need to get coverage. Reforms can be met. But this monstrosity of a shitpile coming through Congress is nothing the majority of America wants. I say no. The people at town halls have said no. Republicans are listening. The Democrats are simply not.
The thing is what is the point of the Republicans offering any kind of proposal. They couldn’t get it past the Democrat gatekeepers if they tried.
Privately, Republican lawmakers have debated the pros and cons of offering their own comprehensive legislation in the Democratic-controlled Congress. A leader on the issue, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said “Our bill is never going to get to the floor,” he wrote in a blog, “so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they’ve got to whatever we’re offering right now?”
Keep saying no. That’s what the majority of people in this country are saying right now.
“We have plenty of time to work next year on sensible and targeted health reform in a bipartisan way,” Weekly Standard editor William Kristol recently wrote. “But first we need to get rid of Obamacare.”
There you go.
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