45 Days to
Obamacare : If you have
not yet signed the online petition Don’tFundIt, go here. You
will receive an email to confirm that you intended to sign the petition. As of 4
pm on Fri., Aug. 16, there were over 348,500 signatures, and counting.
Rep. Tom Price's alternative to Obamacare
Rep. Tom
Price (R-GA) proposed an alternative to Obamacare that Patriots should know
about – especially when commentators such as Newt Gingrich criticize the GOP for
failing to come up with an alternative. From National Review Online:
The bill aims to provide affordable coverage for all through a series of tax credits and deductions designed to entice individuals into the insurance market with positive incentives, as opposed to Obamacare’s solution of fining those who refuse to purchase health insurance. “It’s a carrot instead of a two-by-four,” Price says. “Regardless of where one fits in the economic spectrum, there is a financial incentive to purchase health coverage that the individual wants, not that the government forces them to buy.”
The law would allow individuals to opt out of Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health-care-benefit programs in favor of receiving a tax credit; an individual’s health coverage would be “portable” — no longer tied to an employer — so losing a job wouldn’t also mean losing insurance; individuals and small businesses would be able to access insurance pools that reduce risk for those with pre-existing conditions, and they could purchase plans across state lines. Tort reforms would cut down on physicians’ practicing “defensive medicine” and driving up costs by ordering unnecessary procedures in an effort to avoid lawsuits.
The plan is based on six principles: affordability, accessibility, quality, responsiveness, innovation, and choice. “All of those principles are violated by the Affordable Care Act,” Price says. “When you step back and look at those principles, it guides you to a system that allows patients and families and doctors to be in charge.”
And yet when Republicans talk about health care, few actually point to Price’s bill as an alternative plan, which only reinforces the perception that the GOP has no plan beyond repealing Obamacare.
More on Rep. Price's website here, including the bill itself AND proposed legislation to prohibit the IRS from enforcing Obamacare.
Two Senators and one GOP
who are on not on board with delaying Obamacare and who need to hear from us:
Sen.
Tom Coburn
Washington
D.C.:
Main:
202-224-5754
Fax:
202-224-6008
1800 South
Baltimore
Suite 800
Tulsa, OK
74119
Main:
918-581-7651
Fax:
918-581-7195
100 North
Broadway, Suite 1820
Oklahoma City,
OK 73102
Main:
405-231-4941
Fax:
405-231-5051
Sen. Richard Burr
Federal
Building
151 Patton
Avenue, Suite 204
Asheville, NC
28801
Phone: (828)
350-2437
Fax: (828)
350-2439
100 Coast Line
Street, Room 210
Rocky Mount,
NC 27804
Phone: (252)
977-9522
Fax: (252)
977-7902
Washington, DC
Phone: (202)
224-3154
Fax: (202)
228-2981
2000 West
First Street, Suite 508
Winston-Salem,
NC 27104
Phone: (800)
685-8916
Phone: (336)
631-5125
Fax: (336)
725-4493
City Hall
181 South
Street, Room 222
Gastonia, NC
28052
Phone: (704)
833-0854
Fax: (704)
833-1467
201 North
Front Street
Suite 809
Wilmington, NC
28401
Phone: (888)
848-1833
Phone: (910)
251-1058
Fax: (910)
251-7975
Rep. Paul Ryan
20 South Main
Street, Suite 10
Janesville, WI
53545
(608) 752-4050
5455 Sheridan
Road, Suite 125
Kenosha, WI
53140
Phone: (262)
654-1901
Fax: (262)
654-2156
216 6th
Street
Racine, WI
53403
Phone: (262)
637-0510
Fax: (262)
637-5689
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