Not well, it would seem.
Take a look back 20 years. The year is 1993 and this is the GOP alternative to 'HillaryCare'.
Summary Of A 1993 Republican Health Reform Plan
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2010/february/23/gop-1993-health-reform-bill.aspxSenate Bill 1770 (sponsored by GOP)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d103:S1770:The major provisions in the bill are:
- Universal access to health care insurance coverage, in part through premium assistance to low-income individuals who don't qualify for Medicaid
- A mandate on employers to provide health insurance plans to employees
- Requirements for qualified heath plans to meet standards of
- guaranteed eligibility, availability, and renewability of health insurance coverage
- nondiscrimination based on health status (i.e. eliminating pre-existing conditions)
- benefits offered
- insurer financial solvency
- enrollment process
- premium rating limitations (allowing variation in premiums based only on age and family)
- risk adjustment
- consumer protection
- The formation of individual and small employer purchasing groups
- Requirements that the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, establish standards for large employer plans similar to requirements applicable to small employer plans
- Formation of a Benefits Commission to develop a standard (minimum) benefits package that any qualified health benefits plan must offer
- Enumeration of state responsibilities in implementing state insurance market reforms
- An individual mandate requiring all citizens to be covered by a health plan
- Certain alterations to tax law, including an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts
- Quality assurance programs, including the creation of a national health data system
- Medical liability reform, including a requirement that states adopt an alternative dispute resolution method for the resolution of health care malpractice claims
- Efforts to fight fraud and abuse in federal health programs
Compare the content of this GOP plan to the content of 'Obamacare' and convince me that the current partisan bickering is anything other than smoke and mirrors.
And I was always heard that elephants had long memories.
Apparently when people become politicians, they all turn into jackasses.


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