The GOP Healthcare Plan – That Was a Lie Too

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Jon Perr continues his analysis at perrspectives com. RIP: GOP "Repeal and Replace" of Health Care Law:

A year after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, comically dire Republican predictions of an "Armageddon" which will "ruin our country" and mean "a lot of people are going to die" have not come to pass. Of course, that didn't stop Mitt Romney from marking the anniversary by pretending he never supported virtually identical legislation in his own state, or prevent Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson from claiming that his daughter "probably wouldn't have survived" in a mythical America "where government defined the limits for most insurance policies and set precedents on what would be covered."

Contrary to Republican mythmaking, there are no "death panels," [except Gov. Grim Reaper's GOP death panels here in Arizona] no "government takeover of health care" and no "job-killing" plans coming from Washington. Instead, Americans won't have to worry about pre-existing conditions, losing insurance when they get sick, finding coverage for their children up to age 26, hitting life-time benefit caps and the Medicare "donut hole" – all while trimming the deficit more than $200 billion over 10 years and all thanks to Democrats. And by 2019 an estimated 32 million more people will have health insurance.

But while the court challenges to last year's health care law continue, the Republican campaign promise to "Repeal and Replace" it is dead on arrival. As the Washington Post explained last week, the Congressional GOP predictably has made virtually no progress on "the 'replace' portion of 'repeal and replace.'"

All of which means the Republican prescription for curing the U.S. health system is the same as it ever was: the status quo. Here, then, is the GOP's 10-point plan for America's health care future:

1. 50 Million Uninsured
2. 25 Million More Underinsured
3. Rapid Deterioration of Employer-Based Coverage
4. 1 in 5 Americans Already Postponing Their Medical Care
5. Over 60% of Bankruptcies Due to Medical Bills
6. Family Premiums Would Double in 10 Years
7. Near-Monopoly Status in 94% of Insurance Markets
8. Dramatic Decline in Emergency Room Capacity
9. 45,000 Uninsured Americans Needlessly Dying Each Year
10. Continued Failure for Red State Health Care

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