The GOP plan is out today, and it doesn’t accomplish any of that. Yes, it guarantees a choice, but like a really horrible restaurant the menu sucks and it’s expensive.
It does nothing to reduce costs that isn’t already being done by private industry, which already backed away from what little they offered Obama in cost cutting last week.
And there’s absolutely nothing in it that would increase quality…unless talking about quality health care counts as improving that health care. But talk is cheap. There’s absolutely not even a minimal guarantee of quality health care for your money — nothing about protecting the health consumer. There are no regulatory proposals (except the usual BS about malpractice suits, a talking point I’ll dismiss at length one day).
Obama should take one good suggestion in it (using private industry cost-cutting techniques, such as call centers and websites) and challenge the Democrats to do better.
