World moves on without Blunt
Apparently, Roy Blunt's "plan" for health care reform is so anemic that it doesn't even warrant inclusion in the discussion of legitimate Congressional reform proposals at this point. The Kaiser Family Foundation has completed an analysis of every "major health care reform proposal," which includes plans from each of the following:
- President Barack Obama
- Senators Ron Wyden & Bob Bennett
- Representative Pete Stark
- Senator Max Baucus
- Representative John Conyers
- Senators Tom Coburn & Richard Burr & Representatives Paul Ryan & Devin Nunes
- Senate Finance Committee
- Representative John Dingell
Conspicuously absent is a proposal from Roy Blunt, the man hand-picked by Minority Leader John Boehner to take the lead on "crafting Republican solutions" for the House GOP. Why isn't Blunt included? Because he still doesn't have a plan.
Blunt promised that with his health care working group, "Republicans will develop real solutions to improve our health care system." But to date, all he has to show is five pages of talking points.
Not good.
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Roy's healthcare plan
A whole 5 pages, wow. Masterwork of Missouri GOP whom feel that keeping Missouri in the third world catagory of healthcare is a good idea.
Alas, some of the other plans (including some by dems) seem more interested in insuring insurance company, HMO and pharm companies bottomline healthy instead of the nation. Gotta protect those big Wall street lads (and very few lasses) pay and perks for doing such a wonderful job. Trickle down economics still alive, Change you can believe in.
Of course, the most sane and fastest approach to helping cure the healthcare woes of the land would be to pass HR676 or S703, but single payer options have been nixed by Senator Baucus and Obama. Baucus made his refusal to hear single-payers opinions quite clear when he had folks arrested at the Senate Finance Committee hearings. Good going Baucus and your Banana Republic Committee, arresting doctors and nurses. I am certain Roy B would approve as well as many others of the GOP.
It is good to see so many congressfolks working on a common goal and protecting their campaign contributions is a worthwhile goal. Too bad that many Americans are going to die to continue that cash flow.
Not impressive.
At what point did Roy decide that doing nothing would be the best option?
Wasn't this supposed to be a great campaign year accomplishment?