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Boehner creates GOP health care task force stacked with industry-tied lawmakers.
Think Progress —
... ” image, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) announced the creation of a task force that will devise “free-market solutions” to health care and highlight the “consequences” of a “government-dominated health care bureaucracy.” CQ reports that “House Republicans will neither defer to Democrats nor simply try to obstruct them” on health care and notes the ...
The MAC Is Back! GOP Resurrects McCain’s Health Care Rhetoric
Wonk Room —
Since John McCain’s election defeat, Republicans have struggled to redefine their party. McCain’s health care policy, though, is never too far from their minds.
According to Congressional Quarterly, House Republicans are now forming a study group to devise so-called “free-market” alternatives to President Obama’s health care proposal.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has tapped former GOP Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) to lead the group of 16 Republicans, including McCain health advisers Michael ...
GOP Health Group Misdiagnoses Health Care Crisis
Wonk Room —
... Consider Rep. Roy Blunt’s (R-MO) (he’s the group’s chair) description of the GOP’s approach to the health care crisis: ...
World moves on without Blunt
Fired Up! Missouri —
... Conspicuously absent is a proposal from Roy Blunt, the man hand-picked by Minority Leader John Boehner to take the lead on "crafting Republican solutions" for the House GOP. Why isn't Blunt included? Because he still doesn't have a plan. ...
GOP leader would have preferred no Medicare
Political Animal —
... have ushered in the collapse of capitalism or a dystopian bureaucratic nightmare for consumers. It puts Republicans in the position of having to explain why it's fine for the government to play a health care role in some contexts but not others. Or, conversely, as Blunt demonstrates, it puts them in a position of having to argue that even Medicare was the wrong way to go. And who's Roy Blunt? He's not only the leading Republican candidate for Senate next year, he's also the man leading the Houses Republican caucus' "Health Care Task Force."— ...
Roy Blunt: “Best” if Medicare, Medicaid were Never Created
Firedoglake —
... Blunt isn't alone in his hatred for the Veterans Health Adminstration -- in fact, his position is the default one among Republicans on Capitol Hill, which is why John Boehner picked him to chair the House GOP Task Force on Health Care. And ...
A Timeline of Blunt's Promises and Bold Proclamations About Health Care Reform Legislation
Fired Up! Missouri —
... Broken Promise, February 4: "Through this working group, Republicans will develop real solutions to improve our health care system.." ...
The Republicans Have A Plan ... Or Not
Daily Kos —
It was less than six months ago that House Republican Leader John Boehner proudly announced: Health care costs are too high, access is too limited, and American families and small businesses are looking to their leaders in Washington for free-market solutions, not a government-dominated health care bureaucracy," said Boehner. "House Republicans will not be content to be ‘the party of no.’ Instead, we will be the party of better solutions, and few issues demand more positive solutions than our nation’s health care crisis. ...
House Republicans Confused About Having A Health Care Alternative
Wonk Room —
... . After agreeing to “develop real solutions to improve our health care system” in February, pledging to “lead the effort to make health care work for Americans” ...
DCCC: Where is Blunt's Plan?
Fired Up! Missouri —
... On February 4, Boehner tapped Blunt to Chair Republicans’ Health Care Task Force [House Republican Leader John Boehner Web site] ...
Flashback: Blunt "Guarantees" A Health Care Reform Bill
Fired Up! Missouri —
... February 4: "Through this working group, Republicans will develop real solutions to improve our health care system.." ...
