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.
