Republicans Quit Cooperating on Health Care Months Ago
Come last summer however, Miss Deparle's presence was no longer wanted or needed among republicans. Top party caucus members of the GOP, decided that their strategy of saying no to any and all proposals by Obama and congressional democrats would work best for them in 2010. The GOP actually pressured members to not cooperate on health reform.
Another part of the GOP strategy to defeat health care reform consisted of giving dire warnings about death panels, rationing of care, and limited rights of consumers to visit a doctor of their choice. Republicans warned the public of a conspiracy plot by government to take over health care, which would drive private insurers out of the market. All of these claims were made by republicans for political purposes, and none of the claims are true.
Now that the health care bill passed by the House is being debated in the Senate, the GOP has only one option left, that of offering amendments which are usually voted down. Republicans don't have anyone but themselves to blame for not being included in historic health care reform. Democrats did not shut out republicans, they shut themselves out of the bargaining process by politicizing everything that has to do with reform.
This didn't have to be the case, and I actually think the republicans have a few good ideas on health reform. Some of the ideas I heard that I liked was giving health insurers the option of selling insurance across state lines, and limiting malpractice suits against doctors. I don't think these amendments will be in a final health bill, because republicans have burned all their bridges to bi-partisanship. A health bill will emerge from the Senate, and democrats will benefit politically, but republicans will be seen as opposing health care from the start and ultimately will have nothing to show for their obstruction.
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Published by Herbert F. Mosley
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