After Repeal Vote, Healthcare Reform Fight Goes On

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The Replubicians are tide with the insurance companies!!!! Insurance companies like to rake in premuim but they hate paying out claims!!! Keep fighten for us Obama!!!!

Roger Quinn of MI 8:41PM January 26, 2011

If the repeal by House Republicans was not just a stunt, then why didn't they include with the repeal their simultaneous the adoption of their health care reform plan?
The Republican plan to reform the health care system was introduced in the House in July 2009 as the much promoted "Empowering Patients First Act", H.R. 3400. Prime sponsor was physician Rep. Tom Price (R - Ga.) and co-sponsors included Michelle Bachmann. Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc111/h3400_ih.xml
The Empowering Patients First Act was extensive and included much on Republicans' current reform wish list (e.g., limits on malpractice suits) and such popular provisions as a prohibition on health insurers rejecting applicants because of a pre-existing medical condition.
On March 22, 2010, Rep. Dan Burton, with 27 Republican co-sponsors, introduced H.R. 4910, which was to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 3400). Link: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4910
Again, Mrs. Bachmann was one of the co-sponsors.
So why didn't House Republicans do this again in January 2011? Namely, couple repeal of ObamaCare with passage of the Empowering Patients First Act? (Two birds with one House vote, so to speak.) A cynic might answer that it is because Republicans weren’t all that serious about either the Empowering Patients First Act or health care reform in the first place. A true cynic, that is.

N. Condere of NY 2:44PM January 24, 2011