Saturday, August 17, 2013

Wanted: A Republican Substitute for Obamacare

NRO ^ | 8/16/2013 | Deroy Murdock

To be a credible opponent, the GOP must unite around a plan of its own.

At his August 9 news conference, Obama spoke with journalists in the White House East Room about Republicans and Obamacare.
“At least they used to say, ‘Well, we’re going to replace it with something better,’” Obama said. “There’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.”
Unless Republicans want Obama to keep spouting such nonsense, they must craft and at least pass through the GOP House a bill that would scrap Obamacare and put something far better — and Republican — in its place.
Republicans are 1,000 percent correct to try to defund, repeal, and replace Obamacare. With its employer mandate postponed for a year, most health-insurance exchanges far from ready for their October 1 debut, medical premiums zooming to the Moon, and its ten-year price tag soaring from $940 billion at enactment to $1.8 trillion today, Obamacare has become both unworkable and a knee-slapping mockery
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