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EarlG

(21,942 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:49 AM Jan 2015

Pic Of The Moment: The GOP Health Care Plan Is Finally Here!



Boehner and McConnell Bomb On 60 Minutes When Asked For GOP Alternative to Obamacare


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Pic Of The Moment: The GOP Health Care Plan Is Finally Here! (Original Post) EarlG Jan 2015 OP
Wow. CBS and the GOP issue a joint press release and still mange to fuck it up. How sad looking Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #1
"Doctor Patient Relationship That's Revered"? Like between women and reproductive care providers? NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #2
Good thing 60 Minutes grilled them both with hard hitting questions and basic journalism, right? Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #4
It's the Chuck Todd strategy Plucketeer Jan 2015 #5
Or, in the vernacular "du jour" .. DemoTex Jan 2015 #16
Or between the poors and the doctors? Kiss my other foot. On second thought, get away from me, GOP! freshwest Jan 2015 #11
I have come to despise both of these bastards along with almost all Repuks. olegramps Jan 2015 #24
Representative Alan Grayson SamKnause Jan 2015 #3
What is doctor/patient revered BS chelsea0011 Jan 2015 #6
He means "GOP Approved 'Doctors'" ... like Frist, Carson and Rand Paul ... Myrina Jan 2015 #14
+1 You nailed it. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #21
Who would have thought that the GOPs foreseen this . . . Iliyah Jan 2015 #7
They make me sick to my stomach. SoapBox Jan 2015 #8
Wing nut plan is shut up and die you moocher. kairos12 Jan 2015 #9
Please get rid of Obamacare! snort Jan 2015 #10
"Revere" ... as in Paul Revere who warned the British by firing shots? Martin Eden Jan 2015 #19
Classic! Roland99 Jan 2015 #12
Relationship that's revered? OhZone Jan 2015 #13
the gop plan appears to be let the poor people suffer samsingh Jan 2015 #15
To paraphrase Alan Grayson mountain grammy Jan 2015 #17
+1 Enthusiast Jan 2015 #22
A bandaid and a kick in the ass --that's what I thought GOP healthcare was! MADem Jan 2015 #18
Bawl Baby Bawl! Hubert Flottz Jan 2015 #20
Perfect marym625 Jan 2015 #23
Does anyone have a clue Madmiddle Jan 2015 #25
If Boehner and the rest of the GOP wasn't shit faced drunk 90% of the time maybe ... AlbertCat Jan 2015 #27
"Doctor Patient Relationship That's Revered"? AlbertCat Jan 2015 #26
Repuke plan: AngryDem001 Jan 2015 #28
Mitch McConnell Knows polynomial Jan 2015 #29
According to Ayn Rand, you should be self-reliant and not need the help of anyone like a doctor. tclambert Jan 2015 #30
Unless, like Rand, you need Social Security. Then socialism is okay. nt valerief Jan 2015 #34
Boehnercare is coming! Enrique Jan 2015 #31
More Viagra! Wait, sorry, that's ... Kennah Jan 2015 #38
Their plan is the same as years ago. Its "don't get sick and if you do get sick die quickly". plan. cstanleytech Jan 2015 #32
You left off, "and decrease the surplus population" Kennah Jan 2015 #39
aka "GOPDon'tCare"....... lastlib Jan 2015 #47
I seem to recall Hillary had a plan in the early nineties. They've had since then, at least. nt valerief Jan 2015 #33
That was when they created ObamaCare, er RomneyCare, uh ChafeeCare, umm HeritageCare Kennah Jan 2015 #40
You mean the one they say they don't like. Ha. nt valerief Jan 2015 #42
I know what their alternative is... SummerSnow Jan 2015 #35
Ironically, one needs 41 roosters for a prostate exam Kennah Jan 2015 #37
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. It's their answer to EVERYTHING! Kennah Jan 2015 #36
Let them eat cake, and please stay for the bread and circuses! Kennah Jan 2015 #41
What "Doctor/Patient Relationship" DallasNE Jan 2015 #43
"Cross my heart and hope to die"... czarjak Jan 2015 #44
Let's face it Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2015 #45
Their plan has been in place for decades--it's called "GOPDon'tCare"! lastlib Jan 2015 #46
Orange Scrooge knows his fans will eat that up with shovel! "we're working on it" at least it's Cha Jan 2015 #48
I was hoping they'd propose single payer IronLionZion Jan 2015 #49
He's got no answer because "Obamacare" IS the republican health care reform Cosmocat Jan 2015 #50

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Wow. CBS and the GOP issue a joint press release and still mange to fuck it up. How sad looking
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:59 AM
Jan 2015

were the two puppets of their own power lust anyway - you could almost smell the fear of the radical
GOP and their media handlers as all their Bircher puscht plans falls woefully short.

And if the fucking BBC can call Syriza "radical" then what the fuck should we call the GOP?

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
2. "Doctor Patient Relationship That's Revered"? Like between women and reproductive care providers?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:00 PM
Jan 2015

Boehner and McConnell.

Good grief.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. Good thing 60 Minutes grilled them both with hard hitting questions and basic journalism, right?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:02 PM
Jan 2015

Must have been inciteful follow up questioning to dig down to the truth of the matter, right?

Just kidding.....the American media is a total joke, so I learned nothing new from 60 Minutes I did not know already.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
5. It's the Chuck Todd strategy
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:23 PM
Jan 2015

This UN-dynamic duo would never have agreed to do this interview if they hadn't had it in WRITING that they'd only have to field deflated softballs.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
11. Or between the poors and the doctors? Kiss my other foot. On second thought, get away from me, GOP!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:27 PM
Jan 2015

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
24. I have come to despise both of these bastards along with almost all Repuks.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:29 PM
Jan 2015

The Republicans are the greatest threat to our Democratic Republic that confronts us. I can not stand to listen to any of them and change the channel if those two appear. One is just a common drunk and the other slack jawed mealy mouth creep.

SamKnause

(13,091 posts)
3. Representative Alan Grayson
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:02 PM
Jan 2015

explained the Republicans health care plan in simple terms that anyone could understand.

1. Don't get sick.

2. If you do get sick, die quickly.

He was attacked for saying this.

You should never be attacked for telling the truth !!!!!!!!!!

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
6. What is doctor/patient revered BS
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jan 2015

I have been in private health care my entire. My insurance provider has changed multiple times, as in, far more than 10 times. I never get to keep my doctor. I get to hope that my doctor will be part of my new insurance group. And, luckily, that hasn't been a problem most the time. Bottom line is, I never choose my doctor. My insurer provides a list to choose from.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
7. Who would have thought that the GOPs foreseen this . . .
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jan 2015

"Death Panel" prediction, huh. O'shucks, they looked into their GOP's crystal ball and of course blamed the Dems for it. Misinformed base parroted the lies along with their paid media.

Turns out, Dems were and are on the right side of history.

The GOPers are heartless greedy sobs who always blame others for their actions.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
8. They make me sick to my stomach.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:39 PM
Jan 2015

They do not give a shit about Americans...just the Health industry and Pharma, stealing every shilling from our pockets until we finally die.

snort

(2,334 posts)
10. Please get rid of Obamacare!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:01 PM
Jan 2015

My doctor and I are anxious to get back to some fine, fine revering. Mmmm, yeah Doc, that's right. Uh huh.

Martin Eden

(12,863 posts)
19. "Revere" ... as in Paul Revere who warned the British by firing shots?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:58 PM
Jan 2015

Just trying to understand the "conservative" brain.

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
13. Relationship that's revered?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:43 PM
Jan 2015

Oh Gawd, yeah, then stop getting between me and my doctors, GOP!

And many doctors these days are arrogant drug pushers who don't want to listen to you, in the first place. I like my gyno and my holistic doctors NOW, but I had some real losers in the past.

samsingh

(17,594 posts)
15. the gop plan appears to be let the poor people suffer
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:46 PM
Jan 2015

it is unforgivable to play politics when human lives and suffering are at stake.

but then that is the repug party

mountain grammy

(26,614 posts)
17. To paraphrase Alan Grayson
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:57 PM
Jan 2015

the GOP health insurance plan:

If you get sick

Die quick

Unless you're a fetus.

Then you shall have forever life.

Until you're born.

Then back to square one.


Love,
The Republican/Teabagger party

MADem

(135,425 posts)
18. A bandaid and a kick in the ass --that's what I thought GOP healthcare was!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:58 PM
Jan 2015

Oh, and that's only if you can afford to pay for the bandaid!!!

It's so much easier to be on the "Criticizing" team than it is to be on the "We don't like this and let's do something about it" team, the Bonehead and the Turtle are learning!!!

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
20. Bawl Baby Bawl!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:03 PM
Jan 2015

The Bawl Baby of the house, wants you to pay $1,000.00 a month to the medical insurance company, who pays HIS campaign/bar bills and greens fees.

It's all about greasing the old palm...Always!!!!11!11!

 

Madmiddle

(459 posts)
25. Does anyone have a clue
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jan 2015

what that asshole even meant about "doctor/patient relationship that's revered." Sounds like something Sarah Palin would say for Christ sake.
I have a Doctor here in Vermont, that is on the third floor of this giant hospital annex. I actually haven't seen him in the last four visits. I have in fact seen the Physician Assistant that sees 75% of patients. The worst part is he is clueless about diagnosis, unless you actually point out the problem. They still charge the health insurance provider the same as seeing a real Physician, which is a little over $600 a visit. There certainly was a time when Doctors knew their patients, but that was 50 fucking years ago, things have changed since then. Maybe someone should tell Boehner, it's not 1963 anymore asshole, try to keep up. If Boehner and the rest of the GOP wasn't shit faced drunk 90% of the time maybe they could say something coherent. Fuck him!

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
27. If Boehner and the rest of the GOP wasn't shit faced drunk 90% of the time maybe ...
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:55 PM
Jan 2015

I think I'm in love....

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
26. "Doctor Patient Relationship That's Revered"?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:53 PM
Jan 2015

Y'mean the one without the middle man? The one without for-profit insurance?

polynomial

(750 posts)
29. Mitch McConnell Knows
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:49 PM
Jan 2015

Mitch McConnell Knows the ACA will fail because he will make it so.

All these years it is well documented that the Republicans, the Mainstream Media, and many Democratic persons have continuously used the term Obama Care.

They all should be called out for instilling race bias in the conversations about Health Care. It is named “The Affordable Care Act.” It should be addressed as such.

McConnell will ditch every effort to make it work for the average citizen simply by stalling, shutting down the government, or cutting services. It amazes me how the Republican electorate will vote against their needs, but they do by putting him in office.

What is interesting is the whole Health Care issue should combine Medicare into the Affordable Care Act, moreover, eliminate the need to buy extra supplemental insurance as Plan B.

Combine Plan A and Plan B. plus include dental and eye coverage. We don’t need an AARP what we need is better representation to begin with.

The United Health Care Company is an integral part of the problem that needs to be audited, and identified for integrity in documentation health records for the past decades.

My personal experience is first line concerned with an OSHA complaint that record keeping at the United Health Care Company in particular with railroad injuries is unreliable to establish future diagnostics in remedies.

Good, fair, and free Health Care is the Keystone Pipeline our America needs. Better yet, Added to that the real Keystone Pipeline should be a new Internet Service operated by the Post Office, with Cryptex computer electronic public keys for banking security. All Optic communication should have started yesterday.




An Internet service that is secure enough to vote, and submit citizen generated action legislation.

No porno on this new level of Internet, no advertising, only legal government, medical, and especially free undergraduate education besides mail services.

All American living buildings equipped with Wi-Fi for free internet, similarly as airplane, trains, and ships have a black box and future automobiles will have, all capable to act as homeland security links that would be very difficult for terrorist groups like Isis to sneak and commit terror acts.

America so you see we can be Healthy, Happy, and have overwhelming job opportunities plus be able to create homeland security systems for safety against crazy terrorist besides going to wars that just generate profiteering that likely cause grief for our military veterans prompting many to take their own life at the rate of twenty two a day.

Or vote in that Bush guy, and go into anther war. They might call George the Texas sharpshooter.

The name comes from a joke about a Texan who fires some gunshots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the biggest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter.

We know Cheney is not...

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
30. According to Ayn Rand, you should be self-reliant and not need the help of anyone like a doctor.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 04:20 PM
Jan 2015

Do the surgery yourself, you whiner! Really, how hard can a heart transplant be? It's only connected by a couple of tubes.

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
43. What "Doctor/Patient Relationship"
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:12 PM
Jan 2015

Networks are constantly changing and out of network is very expensive so it has been a long time since we have had Boehner's cherished doctor/patient relationship -- long before Obamacare -- so that is a phony excuse for doing nothing.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,402 posts)
45. Let's face it
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:18 AM
Jan 2015

They do NOT want an "alternative" for PPACA. They want it gone. Dead. Buried. Period. They want things to go back to where they were pre-PPACA. It's what their debased "base" wants. It's what their corporate contributors want. They can't and won't DO anything because ANYTHING more than what they we had pre-PPACA is too much for their base to handle/support and all of their various replacement "ideas" are too little for everybody else. Although the PPACA didn't quite go far enough, it was actually pretty brilliant for President Obama to champion its more limited approach because it basically left the GnOP with nowhere to go legislatively and yet still is a significant improvement in the system.

lastlib

(23,204 posts)
46. Their plan has been in place for decades--it's called "GOPDon'tCare"!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:45 AM
Jan 2015

Effin' Basturds......! . . . . .

Cha

(297,123 posts)
48. Orange Scrooge knows his fans will eat that up with shovel! "we're working on it" at least it's
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 05:56 AM
Jan 2015

not Obamacare!!

IronLionZion

(45,411 posts)
49. I was hoping they'd propose single payer
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 09:23 AM
Jan 2015

since that's the lowest cost for employers, it's really the pro-business plan.

Cosmocat

(14,561 posts)
50. He's got no answer because "Obamacare" IS the republican health care reform
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 09:30 AM
Jan 2015

I supported it because it was the only thing that was going to get passed, and it was truly something that ANYTHING was going to be better. A half step forward vs keeping the worst health care management system possible.

But, they have no answer because it was the republican version of health care reform to counter the democratic single payer system.

This is how perverse and fucked up this country is, that a democratic president is vilified by republicans for signing a republican policy and instead of the media calling republicans out for that bullshit they go along for that ride.

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