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voices.washingtonpost.com - 30 days ago

Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan

— voices.washingtonpost.com — Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform... plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, ... (more) Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 30 days ago

Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody

— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican... health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and ... (more) Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost ...

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thinkprogress.org - 10/29/2009

Boehner Won’t Pledge To Offer GOP Health Care Plan, Refuses To Post It Online If He Does

— thinkprogress.org — Republicans have been insisting for months that Democrats are shoving a secret bill down the throats of... the American public. The health reform legislation “should be posted online for 72 hours so members and the American people get a chance to see ... (more) Boehner Won’t Pledge To Offer GOP Health Care Plan, ...

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Pre-existing positions on pre-existing conditions
Political Animal — ... that Republicans wanted to focus on helping "those with preexisting conditions." Now that the House Republican reform plan fails to prevent insurers from discriminating against patients with pre-existing conditions, this pre-existing rhetoric is something of a problem . Many of the most respected health care voices in the GOP have historically treated the idea of eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions as an obvious plank in any reform effort. Even deeply conservative figures like Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) insisted as recently as August that "everyone agrees" that ...

"A Doozy That Essentially Does... Nothing"
Fired Up! Missouri — ... [House] Republicans have finally released their alternative health-care bill, and it is a doozy that essentially does ... nothing. It doesn't even deal with the problem of "pre-existing conditions," which numerous Republicans believe is a necessary reform. Nor would it expand health insurance coverage to people who don't have it. It will, in fact, make existing insurance coverage [worse] by ...