This week, Senator Jim DeMint will give his reply to Obamacare and it is sure to be a conservative reply as he is being backed by several stalwartly conservative organizations in the effort.
Groups like Americans for Tax Reform, Media Research Center, Americans for Prosperity, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights and Tea Party Patriots will all stand behind Senator DeMint’s presentation in the Cannon Building in the House Budget Committee Hearing room on the Hill this Wednesday at noon.
DeMint has a full menu of items to propose and we have been informed that the list of issues that will be discussed will include:
- Do no harm, keep employer-based plans
- Vouchers of $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for a family will be proposed for those without insurance whether it be private or employer-based
- It will be proposed that health savings accounts should be able to be used for insurance premiums — this is thought a great benefit for employers that want to drop their own plans
- A national market for health insurance will be proposed so that competition across state lines will improve choice for everyone
- Block grants to help states with their programs will be discussed, this will prevent guaranteed issued coverage and will also help federal mandates harder to impose
- Tort reform to reduce predatory and frivolous lawsuits is being considered, as will caps on awards. This will be closely related to Senator Ensign’s malpractice law proposal
- Also, an option for individuals to leave their employer-based insurance plan and to choose a tax credit to pursue their own insurance will also be on the table
DeMint claims that these ideas will help 22.4 million currently uninsured Americans get healthcare coverage at lower costs. It will be cheaper and faster than the Kennedy plan currently finding such a tough road of it in the Senate. DeMint says this plan will save $310 billion over 5 years with the tax credit voucher proposal.
It will certainly be interesting to see where this proposal goes and if the media will give DeMint the attention he deserves. It will also be interesting to see if his Senate colleagues join him in his efforts.
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Deskpilot (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:07AM EST (link)this plan places the success of Healthcare reform in the MARKETPLACE of consumers and capitalists, where it belongs.
Government healthcare will force the skills of a laboratory rat vet to handle the health of a herd of elephants (no GOP pun intended), Nevermind that the elephants trunk is too small to hold the wallet to pay for it all.
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National insurance market ?
Joliphant (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 10:22AM EST (link)I have to ask though how a national market for insurance will work ?
State laws are byzantine on what is mandated coverage what isn’t. I can’t conceive of how you would have a policy product that could be sold as one size fits all across state lines.
Will there be a national standard of coverage that will be available in all states ? Each state would then be able to set standards for purely local coverage ? This is a bit of a no win from a limited government point of view. You either wind up with the federal government stomping on rights reserved to the states, or you continue with the insanity being promulgated by state insurance commissions. Either way it just underscores how much needs to be undone.
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Shadegg Health Care Bill
Arad1994 Tuesday, June 23rd at 2:42PM EST (link)Joliphant,
The DeMint Bill incorporates what Rep. Shadegg tried a couple of years ago to pass. The DeMint Bill, and formerly the Shadegg Bill, would allow you to purchase insurance plans across state lines. There would be no establishment of federal mandates. You’d simply be allowed to purchase whatever plan you want. So if you lived in Jersey and thought you had too many mandates, you could check out a state like Iowa where the mandates are much lower.
Hope that helps!
Great now just get going to other Insurance problems
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Re: Insurance Problems
Arad1994 Tuesday, June 23rd at 6:57PM EST (link)The DeMint Bill is a lot more than what was mentioned above. For instance:
-States would be block-granted money to create insurance options for those with pre-existing conditions. I believe that was something mentioned as an earlier concern.
- Tort Reform would be included, which would keep the cost of care low by putting a hard cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits.
Finally, It would ensure 22.5 million Americans who currently lack insurance without raising anyone’s taxes. As conservatives, isn’t that a top priority? Spending restraint is also observed. Its taxcuts are fully-offset, so it won’t create new government debt.
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Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:08PM EST (link)It seems to be the same thing. Conservatives are thinking alike at this point. When this happens, there should be no excueses on why you don’t have health insurance. If this was applied to Car insurance, it would take care of all the uninsured motorists. Question, will make the need for SCHIP dry up?
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But we don't have auto ins for routine maintenance
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:58PM EST (link)We only insure the relatively rare occurrence.
That’s why it works. Even catastrophic health ins can’t compare because one day we all have a catastrophic event
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5!...a great deal of our health "insurance" is really a service plan nt
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The only real solution for this is more people paying taxes
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:59PM EST (link)more babies/immigrants
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Ok that effectively stomps on the states right to regulate commerce within the state
Joliphant (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:08PM EST (link)As long as there is no federal creation of mandates I don’t see that as a bad thing. Call me cynical though, I just don’t see it staying that way for long.
Just looking at the likely effects I would imagine that insurance companies would set up shop in low regulation states and sell cheap policies from companies based in those states into states that have heavy mandated care burdens. Not a bad thing at all.
Who knows if that got passed you might see some serious challenge to the use of the interstate commerce clause to regulate commerce within a state. Once again not a bad thing.
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The easy way to fix that is States should create funds
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:34PM EST (link)If the states stated funds for this, the Federal Goverment would not need to put this idem in the budget. The first hurdle for this getting enough traction in the public for this(destroy the diea of a “public plan”).
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Be wary of Obama's healthcare "savings"
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, June 23rd at 11:31PM EST (link)It all fits right into their plan
avgamerican (Diary) Wednesday, June 24th at 12:44AM EST (link)All those who really need mediacal care (seniors, cancer patients, heart patients,etc) will easily qualify for the doctor assisted suicide plan already legal in some states. The rest will be denied preventative care and will graduate to the former plan.