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Roy Blunt said they're keeping it a secret to avoid confusing people.
Roy Blunt's health care solution: Snipe and sit | Midwest Voices
Roy Blunt's health care solution: Snipe and sit
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri chairs something called the "House GOP Health Care Solutions Group."
Today, he's in the crosshairs for declaring that the, uh, solutions group wasn't planning on putting forth any solutions. In the form of a bill, that is.
"Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus?" Blunt said yesterday. "We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work (the Democrats have) got to whatever we’re offering right now?"
So the "solution" is purely political. Fire away at the Democrats' plan and offer nothing of your own.
By this morning, team Blunt had put out a clarification.
“Our reform plan to lower costs, increase access, and improve quality was released weeks ago and it is well-known.," Blunt's office said in a statement, posted on The Plum Line blog.
Also from Blunt: "There’s a variety of tactics that could be employed during the debate on the House floor and the leadership won’t make a final decision next week until the Democrats announce how they will proceed.”
When it comes to health care and other matters, Blunt and other GOP House members are quick to assert that the emperor has no clothes. But they're laughably chicken about suggesting what the emperor should put on.
The Health Care Solutions Group last month did release a list of principles for health care reform.
But it contains no cost estimates and no real estimates of how many people would gain insurance through the plan.
Look, if Republican ideas for health care are any good, put them into a bill, release cost estimates, and let them be subjected to the same analysis as the Democratic proposals.
I suspect Blunt and the GOP don't want to do that, because they know, in their heart of hearts, that their wardrobe is the most threadbare of all.
It looks increasingly like the House GOP health care plan is the status quo. If that's the case, Blunt and company should say so.
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Roy Blunt's health care solution: Snipe and sit | Midwest Voices
Roy Blunt's health care solution: Snipe and sit
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri chairs something called the "House GOP Health Care Solutions Group."
Today, he's in the crosshairs for declaring that the, uh, solutions group wasn't planning on putting forth any solutions. In the form of a bill, that is.
"Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus?" Blunt said yesterday. "We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work (the Democrats have) got to whatever we’re offering right now?"
So the "solution" is purely political. Fire away at the Democrats' plan and offer nothing of your own.
By this morning, team Blunt had put out a clarification.
“Our reform plan to lower costs, increase access, and improve quality was released weeks ago and it is well-known.," Blunt's office said in a statement, posted on The Plum Line blog.
Also from Blunt: "There’s a variety of tactics that could be employed during the debate on the House floor and the leadership won’t make a final decision next week until the Democrats announce how they will proceed.”
When it comes to health care and other matters, Blunt and other GOP House members are quick to assert that the emperor has no clothes. But they're laughably chicken about suggesting what the emperor should put on.
The Health Care Solutions Group last month did release a list of principles for health care reform.
But it contains no cost estimates and no real estimates of how many people would gain insurance through the plan.
Look, if Republican ideas for health care are any good, put them into a bill, release cost estimates, and let them be subjected to the same analysis as the Democratic proposals.
I suspect Blunt and the GOP don't want to do that, because they know, in their heart of hearts, that their wardrobe is the most threadbare of all.
It looks increasingly like the House GOP health care plan is the status quo. If that's the case, Blunt and company should say so.
Follow Barb Shelly on Twitter