House GOP pens 230-page health bill draft

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

A 230-page draft was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. A spokeswoman for Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said changes were still being made before the bill would be finalized in time to offer as an alternative when Democrats begin floor debate on their bill, possibly at the end of this week.

The bill leaves out a number of the key features of the Democrats' 1,990-page legislation, such as new requirements for employers to insure their employees and for nearly all Americans to purchase insurance. It also doesn't block insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions, as Democrats would do.

Instead, the Republican plan increases incentives for people to use health savings accounts, caps non-economic jury awards in medical malpractice cases at $250,000, provides various incentives to states with the aim of driving down premium costs and allows health insurance to be sold across state lines.

"As Leader Boehner has made clear, our proposal will focus on the No. 1 concern of the American people — reducing health care costs, and we do it at a price tag our nation can afford," said spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier, though Republicans have not said how much their bill would cost.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul;_ylt=As7vRFcOrVmatB3vHQ2Y0a6zvtEF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxYWNwNGZqBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTAzL3VzX2hlYWx0aF9jYXJlX292ZXJoYXVsBGNwb3MDNARwb3MDNARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2hvdXNlZ29wcGVucw-

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Sweet! We now have a choice! We can do nothing, adopt the Democratic Health Care reform proposals, or adopt the GOP's proposal of health care 401(k)'s. Just make sure you do not get sick during a bear market!

[Hawkeye-X]

1. GOP's health plan

Give me more money, and we'll continue to deny all of your claims. Even for a nose bleed.

[RDANGELO]

2. It's being scored by CBO.

The people will be able to see exactly how little this bill does.

[krispos42]

3. Just FYI, your yahoo link....

...it messing up the formatting of the page for some reason or another.

[Turborama]

4. I've found they work ok if they're snipped at the 1st semi colon

for example...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

[april]

5. so where can we see this draft??

[Fearless]

8. ""But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

“Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”



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[Roland99]

11. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

[onehandle]

6. 72 point type, double spaced. Something about if you get sick, die quickly.

This sounds familiar.

[laughingliberal]

7. Stunning stupidity

Boehner claims it will bring down the cost of health care. Yeah? Well, so would refusing to provide any health care but I don't think that's what we had in mind.

[Tsar_Bomba]

9. Does it contain 229 blank pages?

[Roland99]

10. Anything to flood the markets with more of our cash so the TBTF can stay overleveraged.

Imagine if Social Security had been privatized under Bush?

EGADZOOKS!!!

[Zorra]

12. A longer version of the republican "get sick and die quick" plan. n/t

[meow2u3]

13. 229 of those pages contain loopholes that protect the insurance racket

The other page is the cover page.

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. "It also doesn't block insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions"

Then it's utterly fucking useless and should be laughed out of the debate.

[iamthebandfanman]

15. 230 pages!? who could anyone possibly read that! throw it out! n/t