What is the Republican plan for Health Care reform?

Didn't you hear what Bush
just said yesterday? He said
he would veto the extension of
the child health care plan.
Why? Because he does not
think that "government" should
be in the health care business!
He sure likes the "war"
business well enough, but not
giving kids proper health care.

we plan to cut our taxes and take your taxes for ourselves

then we can pay for health care and write it off our taxes

To continue to allow people who can't afford treatment be turned away to die because there is no money in treating poor patients.

I would doubt if they have any plans to reform anything as good as our Health Care.
Have you ever heard of anyone asking to go to Cuba because they had some dreaded disease and the best Dr.s were in Cuba, or Canada, or England, or Sweden?
I would ask, "What is the Democrat's plan to destroy our Health Care?"

Very good question!

I am under the impression many of them think health care needs no reforming!!!

Poor people deserve to die.

If God likes you, He makes you rich. Otherwise, you're poor. Therefore, rich people deserve happiness, and poor people deserve misery.

And while you're trying to find a hole in my logic, I'll be collecting my huge campaign contribution from the HMO and Big Pharma lobbies.

Republican Plan. Allow the drug companies to rape the population. ALlow the insurance companies to rape the population. Take kickbacks from the drug companies and the insurance companies. use the kickback money in two ways. put ten percent into their jesus church - use the other 90% on child prostitutes and a donkey show.

Basically - that's the plan for them.

If you want to lower health care costs, the first thing you need to have is tort reform. Get all the frivolous lawsuits out of the hospitals. When a hospital gets sued for $10,000,000, where do you think they get that money from?

My health care is just fine so please don't let the federal government "reform" it - please!

Before the government was involved in education, a college education was affordable and school kids could read. Before the government was involved in health care most families could afford to take their kids to their private doctors.

Anything the federal government reforms turns into a disaster, speaking of which, Katrina Rescue makes my case.

Do NOT fuss with medical care! I don't want the kind of system they have in the UK where my aunt lives or the kind they have in Sweden where my brother lives!@!

Ron Paul is a licensed medical doctor, lets ask him!

He is Republican and Conservative through and through - just look at his voting record.

He would be able to give us a few ideas on how to fix our system of health care. Who better to ask than a real doctor

In fact he served our Nation as a medic in the Air Force, so I am sure he could fix the military health care and treatments for veterans as well.

It's not the government's (AKA taxpayers) job to provide healthcare for its citizens. People need to be responsible for their own actions and their own health. The poorest in this country live far better than the poorest in other countries. Their priorities are usually mixed up. They have catv, $100 cell phone, $100 cell phone bill, etc, etc when they should use their limited income on more important things. There is no excuse for not making it in this country. You can do whatever you want to do. The problem is people have gotten lazy and are looking for free handouts. If you need help, seek your family and friend's assistance. That's where the help should come from, not the government. When this country was founded, do you think the people had the government take care of them?????

If we got Tort reform rolling, capped the money people could snag with frivolous lawsuits, and thus lowered the operating costs of Doctors and Hospitals by almost half, that would be a hell of a start. Why is it that everyone wants to deal with the symptoms, and not the disease? The system isn't broken because of the system, but because of what we've allowed to happen to it.

Skyrocketing medical costs can be directly attributed to the rising cost of doing business in the medical industry due to 2 major factors.

1. Out of control lawsuits accounting for billions of dollars the medical industry hemorrhages every year, as well as the ever-rising cost of malpractice insurance to protect against these lawsuits.

2. Subsidizing government programs that don't pay out enough to compensate these doctors and hospitals for the costs they incur. On average, government health programs such as Medicare pay out 1 dollar for every 3 that private insurances pay for the same procedure. In order to make up the difference, the doctor or hospital has to charge more to everyone else, because the government sets caps on what they can charge them.

It's government's interference, and frivolous lawsuits that are the problem, fix those, and you fix the system.

I believe the Republican plan is to stress individual employee health insurance, but this doesn't do a lot for people with pre-existing conditions or people within jobs. On the other hand, the Democrats seem to be behind SCHIP (a children's health insurance plan), which provides health care for all uninsured children on the belief that it's not THEIR fault if their parents can't or won't provide it. Some Republicans have gotten behind SCHIP as well. More of them are against it.

Encourage the expansion of HSA's through tax deductions. This will encourage people to spend this money more wisely since it is their own. In turn, people will shop around for the best or cheapest service, which will create competition among hospitals and insurance companies. Dropping Prices. Then deregulate major portions of the Health Care industry.

NONE... so go on get that AK-47 just in case ;)

The majority of the Republicans support Corporate Medicine, which is just as bad as Socialized Medicine.

Dr. Ron Paul (a physician who has delivered over 4000 babies) would return us to Free Market Medicine, like we had 40-50 years ago. That means repealing all of the laws the government has passed to raise the cost of health care. Therefore, the FDA will be dumped (its a waste of money and raises the cost of prescription drugs), Alternative Medicine will be legalized (everybody has a right to choose what type of medical care they want), Medicare Part D will be repealed (it raised the cost of prescription drugs, harming everybody except drug company executives), the New Freedom Mental Health Commission will be dumped (its this stupid Orwellian Bush administration program that will turn about 15% of teens into lifetime drug addicts by bribing them into participating), and Charity Healthcare will be encouraged once again. As a doctor, Ron Paul didn't accept Medicare and chose to provide care to seniors for free instead. He's a veteran (he worked as a doctor for the military during the Vietnam War, though he wasn't sent to Vietnam) and would fix the Veterans medical care by allowing them to choose more providers instead of just the government's incompetent hospitals. Ron Paul, as the only doctor running for president, is the most qualified to fix the Health Care system.

Easy... Everyone provides their own. Its NOT an entitlement. I pay for health care for my family and I really dont want to be burdened by some degenerate that doesnt want to work to provide there own.

If people dont like this they can move to Canada where they provide free healthcare and astronomical taxes.

the private investment acount leaving pre tax dollars to pay bills. and i echo the sentiment here. i dont need or want the govt meddling in my affairs...i can take care of my own without confiscatory taxation.