{"id":3859,"date":"2011-01-14T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2011-01-14T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:52:30","slug":"health-care-where-is-the-republican-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/health-care-where-is-the-republican-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care: Where is the Republican Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ohio Republican made a major mistake.  He actually held a Town Hall meeting that was not pre-stocked with supporters to cheer on his assault on America.  As a result he got a taste of some authentic grass roots activism.  One senior citizen not only shows us what a Town Hall meeting, without Republican astro-turf, can be, but serves as an example to us all with a question we should all be asking.  \u201cWhere is the Republican plan?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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Guess what happens when a congressional town meeting audience isn’t created by the Koch brothers<\/a> or fueled by Fox News? There’s a different kind of confrontation<\/a>. Here’s what happened at a meeting earlier this week at Ohio\u2019s Walsh University, with GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH)…<\/p>\n

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…An informed constituency is a beautiful thing, and those are pretty good questions for the Congressman, and for all Republicans. "There\u2019s a lot of things that took effect that help seniors. Once you repeal it, what happens to all that? And what are you going to replace it? Why don\u2019t you make a replacement plan before you repeal it so we can look at it?<\/strong>"<\/p>\n

As more people derive more benefit from the provisions that have kicked in–no denials for children because of pre-existing conditions, savings for Medicare recipients, adult children being able to stay on their parents’ plans, incentives for small businesses to provide benefits–more people are going to be asking the same question: what’s the Republican plan?  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Don\u2019t get me wrong.  The HCR we passed has some major problems, but the solution is to fix the problems, not trash the plan altogether, or if we are going to trash the plan altogether, trash it together with implementing something better, like Medicare for all.  Republicans do have a plan for health care.  They just don\u2019t want us to know what it is, but we can see it in action by looking at Jan Brewer\u2019s treatment of Medicaid patients needing organ transplants.  That is RepubliCare in action.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ohio Republican made a major mistake.  He actually held a Town Hall meeting that was not pre-stocked with supporters to cheer on his assault on America.  As a result he got a taste of some authentic grass roots activism.  One senior citizen not only shows us what a Town Hall meeting, without Republican astro-turf, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}