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Boehner and McConnell Bomb On 60 Minutes When Asked For GOP Alternative to Obamacare
6 years of telling us the ACA is doom, 6 years to invent an alternative.
and THIS is the best they can come up with? interstate commerce, and malpractice reform? how does that help people with pre-existing conditions, etc? :shock:
:doh
6 years of telling us the ACA is doom, 6 years to invent an alternative.
and THIS is the best they can come up with? interstate commerce, and malpractice reform? how does that help people with pre-existing conditions, etc? :shock:
CBS’s Scott Pelley asked again, “So how do you do it? What’s the Republican plan?” Boehner answered with a weak, “We’re, We’re working on this. Having discussions amongst our members, got a lot of divergent views about how best to go back to a doctor/patient relationship that’s revered.”
Pelley kept hammering away and said that this is one of the biggest criticisms of the Republican Party is that they know what they are against, but can’t tell people what they are for. McConnell said that Pelley was mischaracterizing the success of Obamacare and claimed that the ACA will fail. McConnell said that the chances, of getting rid of Obamacare with Obama in the White House, were slim, but that Republicans were going to make the effort.
Pelley replied, “You don’t have an alternative.”
At this point, Boehner jumped back in and pushed the same old Republican ideas of letting people buy insurance across state lines and medical malpractice insurance reform. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell went on the most watched television news program in the country and promptly fell on their faces. The truth is that Republicans have no replacement plan for the ACA.
:doh