We've been waiting for this? A four page outline?

Remember way back to yesterday, when Roy Blunt promised a "healthcare proposal?"   Or last week when he praised his "constructive" plan for reform?  Or two weeks ago when Blunt audaciously said, "No report or headline can take the place of a comprehensive plan?"

Ladies and gentlemen, here's your comprehensive plan:

House Republicans presented a four-page outline of their health care reform plan Wednesday but said they didn’t know yet how much it would cost, how they would pay for it and how many of the nearly 50 million Americans without insurance would be covered by it.

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who heads a GOP health task force, said that when the details are drafted in the coming weeks, they would present a plan that “costs far less than the Democrats’ [plan] and provides better results for the American people.”

But Republicans who stayed at the press conference to answer questions — the leaders made statements but didn’t stay — could not answer whether their plan would include a tax increase to pay for such costly items as refundable tax credits for low- and middle-income workers to help pay for insurance.

That's it. No plan, no details, no costs, no financing, no idea how many people it might cover.

At the press conference during which Blunt and Minority Leader John Boehner were expected to unveil their comprehensive plan, Blunt was asked why he still doesn't actually have anything resembling a plan.

Blunt's response, in it's entirety: 

QUESTION: Mr. Blunt, your plan doesn’t have a whole lot of numbers in it. I’m wondering when you guys have a sense of roughly how much your plan would cost, how much you’re going to -- how are you going to pay for it, are there going to be any tax increases, and how many of the uninsured do you estimate would ultimately get health insurance who don’t have health insurance right now?

BLUNT: Well, we believe we can come up with a plan where every person in the uninsured has access to insurance. Now, we -- we -- we’re going to have no mandate, no employer mandate, no individual mandate. And we’re going to try to think of ways to encourage the -- the 28-year-old guy who thinks he’s invincible to get into the health care system.

But a lot of the uninsured, as you know, fit that category. At the same time, there are people who are uninsured who just simply don’t have access to coverage today, and we want to insure -- we want to guarantee that they have access to coverage and access that they can afford.

Now, you know, affordability is always kind of a -- it’s a hard- to-define term. What -- what you’re willing to pay, what’s appropriate to pay, and what you’d like to pay may be two different things. We want this to be as affordable as possible.

We will not have coverage paid for by taxpayers for people at 500 percent of the poverty level. We will not have coverage that -- where the taxpayers pay for families who make over $100,000. That’s not going to be part of our plan. So we’re going to look at the numbers where we do have to help people. We might start by looking at the numbers that -- the percentages we allowed for Medicare Part D, for instance, and then figure out how you dial those up or dial those down to -- to get at a number that the American people will benefit from by having more people in the health care system, fewer people at the emergency room, fewer people without -- who have -- who don’t have a doctor-patient relationship that keeps them well, the -- the relationship that Charles Boustany was talking about.

Charles Boustany, Phil Gingrey , Tom Price , Dr. Burgess, many of our doctors were on the solutions group. We think access to care is important.

But, David, do you want to talk about...

CAMP: Yes, I just wanted to mention on the score...

For more on Blunt's failures to come up with an actual health care plan, as he's promised: 

• GOP "very concerned" about the "void" left by Blunt's health care task force
• Blunt Assessment: "They look into their own camp — and get nervous"
• GOP still underwhelmed with Roy Blunt's leadership on health care
• Blunt acknowledges lack of substance in his own health care talking points
• Blunt: Health care hasn't been a priority for House leadership
• Blunt still promising a "Republican Plan" for health care
• Irony Alert: Blunt demands health care reform details from Obama
• Blunt now looking to unveil health care plan "in the coming weeks"
• Still waiting for an affordable health care alternative from Blunt & Co.
• Blunt concerned about grassroots involvement in health care debate
• World moves on without Blunt