Scott Walker Releases Obamacare Replacement Plan

[Frodo]

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And here's a direct link to the plan on his website.

[Fuzzy Bear]

This plan would not do a thing to insure the uninsured.  These folks couldn't afford to purchase the insurance today with the promise of a tax credit later. 

Obamacare is, essentially, the Republican alternative to Clintoncare in 1994.  Really, it goes all the way back to the 1970s when Bill Brock, the RNC National Chairman, was pitching the idea.  The REAL objection to Obamacare from the GOP is that it's "OBAMAcare", something that is a legacy achievement for Obama.  I'm not thrilled with the plan, but Walker's "plan" isn't a plan; it's a tax scheme that won't help folks on the bottom.

[EliteLX]

Well God bless the man for actually being one of the ONLY 'pubs I've heard that actually offers some sort of alternative instead of bitching about OC threatening to shut the Government down.

[Pyro]

More wealthy-wank diarrhea from the Walker camp.

[136or142]

Marco Rubio has a similar plan: http://blogs.rollcall.com/white-house/rubiocare-upend-traditional-insurance/

To Republican Party supporters who agree with the plan of "die quickly" and oppose any health care, let me suggest to you a name to knock Marco Rubio over this:  Karl Marxo Rubio.

[King]

This is just a convoluted repeal plan. It doesn't add anything to solve problems in the system

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Kudos to him for having an actual plan. I still prefer a revised ObamaCare though. (no medical device tax, restore full time to 40 hours, have a longer open enrollment period, require all doctors to accept all ObamaCare plans, and forbid employers from firing people solely to avoid the employer mandate)

[dmmidmi]

This "plan" is really just grandstanding, masquerading as a set of policy proposals.

To be fair to Governor Walker, this is more substantive than anything presented by most of his peers.

[Blue3]

This is not a serious plan.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Literally all of these plans are just modified versions of the Patient CARE Act that was put out by Senators Coburn, Orrin, Hatch, and Burr in 2014 and 2015.


And the best part? The Patient Care Act is literally Obamacare with a few tweaks, which in turn is based off Romneycare, which took its inspiration from the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act from 1993 (Yes, that spells "HEART Act").


It's hilarious watching the GOP establishment twist themselves into knots trying to propose an alternative to Obamacare (which is basically their plan), by simply giving it a cosmetic makeover and furiously denying it's just Obamacare from a Republican perspective.

The GOP establishment has effectively surrendered policy-wise on Obamacare. It's just rhetoric now.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Obamacare has created too many part time workers, without restoring 40 hour week. I wish the GOP focuses on that instead of repealing it. But, understanding the frustration with Dems that blocked it.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Literally all of these plans are just modified versions of the Patient CARE Act that was put out by Senators Coburn, Orrin, Hatch, and Burr in 2014 and 2015.


And the best part? The Patient Care Act is literally Obamacare with a few tweaks, which in turn is based off Romneycare, which took its inspiration from the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act from 1993 (Yes, that spells "HEART Act").


It's hilarious watching the GOP establishment twist themselves into knots trying to propose an alternative to Obamacare (which is basically their plan), by simply giving it a cosmetic makeover and furiously denying it's just Obamacare from a Republican perspective.

The GOP establishment has effectively surrendered policy-wise on Obamacare. It's just rhetoric now.

Their plan is basically 'ObamaCare without mandates', done through tax credits rather than subsidies.

I don't like the individual mandate either, but it's a necessity to making the law work.

[Simfan34]

Obama stole our plan.

[Mehmentum]

Obama stole our plan.

I mean, that's true... but when your opponent starts advocating for your position, that means you won, right?

The hilarious thing is that instead of welcoming the passage of something they championed as a victory, the GOP couldn't.  The couldn't give Obama credit for anything, because as McConnell put it: "The single most important thing for us to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

Now the GOP is backed into a corner, they don't have a healthcare policy that makes sense and they can't flip-flop on this because the base wouldn't allow it.

[136or142]

Obamacare has created too many part time workers, without restoring 40 hour week. I wish the GOP focuses on that instead of repealing it. But, understanding the frustration with Dems that blocked it.

Part time and short term contract world is a somewhat new phenomenon in all developed economies around the world.  I don't doubt that Obamacare may have added to this somewhat in the United States, but it is a minor reason at best.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Obama stole our plan.

The Republican Party had 45 years to enact a healthcare reform plan. They didn't. Can't get mad that someone else does things you're supposed to do in the first place.

Democrats deserve full credit here.