Obama care is basically a rehashing of a Heritage Foundation plan the Republicans offered to counter HillaryCare. Obama's record clearly paints him as a mainstream Republican from the 80s. Yet this is socialism now?|||Because he's a black man... duh!|||Your premise is incorrect (not that I agree with the Heritage Foundation at all). I believe in free markets and an individuals RIGHT NOT to want health care insurance or coverage.
Direct from the heritage Foundation:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports鈥?/a>
Beyond the unprecedented mandates, new taxes, massive entitlement expansion, unworkable and costly insurance provisions, and its failure to control costs,[2] the new law concentrates enormous power in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It creates a giant network for the federal micromanagement of health plans, benefits, insurance markets, and unprecedented intervention into the details of health care financing and the delivery of medical care.[3]
The early result is a veritable flood of controversial rules and regulations, administrative decisions, and guidelines directly affecting the lives of millions of Americans. This regulatory regime, administered by unelected bureaucrats, is even more onerous because of the fundamental flaws of the hastily enacted legislation itself, including undefined provisions and unrealistic timeliness. Those with the knowledge, access, and influence with the Administration are more likely to obtain exemptions than those who are not so fortunate. The new law allows the HHS Secretary to apply the provisions of the law and to enforce it as she sees fit, thus granting the Secretary the right to determine winners and losers.
Getting Health Care Reform Back on Track
There are many policy options Congress should consider, after repeal of PPACA, to begin moving the system in the right direction and put the country on the right path toward market-based health care change that gives people better choices and allows them to take account of the price and value of health care. For example, Congress should:
* Provide individual tax relief for all persons purchasing private health insurance, regardless of where they work;
* Eliminate barriers to individuals purchasing health care coverage that best suits their personal needs across state lines;
* Allow employers to convert their health care compensation from a defined benefit package to a defined contribution system;
* Promote new group purchasing arrangements based on individual membership organizations and various associations, including union, fraternal, ethnic, and religiously based groups;
* Improve consumer-directed health options (such as health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, and flexible spending accounts) that encourage greater transparency and consumer control over health care decisions;
* Extend rational pre-existing condition protections in the non-group health insurance markets for those with continuous creditable coverage, thus rewarding responsible persons who buy and maintain coverage;
* Set up a fair competitive bidding process to determine government payment in traditional Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage programs;
* Review Medicare rules and regulations and eliminate those that unduly burden doctors and patients, such as the restriction preventing doctors and patients to contract privately for medical services outside of the traditional Medicare program;
* Encourage the states to set up mechanisms such as high-risk pools and risk transfer models that help lessen the problems of individuals who are difficult to insure;
* Expand states鈥?ability to develop consumer-based reforms that enable states to customize solutions for their citizens;
* Strengthen premium assistance in Medicaid to enable young families to obtain private health insurance coverage;
* Improve patient-centered health care models for those on Medicaid;
* Increase federal and state efforts to combat fraud and abuse in Medicaid, including tightening eligibility loopholes in Medicaid for long-term-care services;
* Encourage personal savings and the development of a robust private insurance market for long-term-care needs;
* Make the ban on taxpayer-funded abortion permanent and government-wide and extend a similar permanent policy to ensure protection of the right of conscience among medical providers and personnel; and
* Stop new tax increases and promote tax cuts that would expand private insurance coverage and grow the economy.|||Hillarycare was in the 80s? Or are you just trying to squeeze Reagan and HillaryCare into the same sentence?
Obama's stated that this is only a stepping-stone to a public option. I believe him. Like most terrorists, you just have to listen to what they say they're go to do to figure out what they're going to do.|||He's a liberal because he wants to reach into my pocket so somebody else can have have health care for "free". Anyone who wants to do the same will be deemed a liberal. I worked and managed my a## off to pay for my own health care free from any government assistance or insurance company and now I'm going to be punished for being responsible.|||So, did Ronald Reagan, for example, interfere with the operation of the courts in a bankruptcy proceeding? Did he sue states for endeavoring to enforce federal law? Did he extort money from a corporation in the Oval Office? Did he try to raise income tax rates during a recession? I really don't see the comparison.|||Washington's premier liberal lobbying group is the Americans for Democratic Action, and ADA's approval rating of Obama in 2005 (for his votes in the Senate) was 100%; the next year they gave him 95%. That's liberal.|||Reagan was a man who understood our system of government and embraced it. He lived within its means and he had respect for, had the respect of, and loved all who he served as President. Obama is the complete opposite of all of that.|||No one that loved Reagan loves Obama. They are two different men with two entirely different agendas.
But if you insist on making such a argument.....good luck to you.....I do not think you will find a soul that will buy it however. (IE. a waste of your time).|||the irony in this question....
you mention obamacare and being the same policies as Reagan when Reagan had warned against government health care.|||Obama is a self-described liberal. He's proud of the label even though most liberals are running away from him and the liberal agenda.|||You are kidding aren't you?
Tax and spend, tax and spend. They even came out yesterday saying they need to spend more.
Taking over businesses is not what Reagan was about.|||only in the us is president obama considered "left-wing", in any other country he would be !centre-right"!|||Obama is nothing like Reagan, clearly he is a liberal. His voting record as Senator put him squarely on the outer fringe.|||Liberal? I thought he was a fascist communist Muslim Kenyan member of the Taliban... the Tea Enthusiasts told me so...|||Hussian Care is not a rehashing of anything the Heritage Foundation
Hussain care is communism|||and you know Obamacare is the same as a bill the republicans were planning had they got in|||What? You obviously smoke pot.|||If his name was Bill Smith he wouldn't be a socialist.|||you have no idea what you are talking about
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