House Minority Leader John Boehner said on CNN’s State of the Union this morning that Republicans are combining several ideas on health care reform posted on the GOP website into a bill that’s being scored by the CBO and that he hopes to present for debate on the House floor.
So what can we expect from the plan?
“We do not attempt to cover 46 million more Americans,” Boehner said, pointing to a printout of the Democrats’ House health care reform bill, which he’d stacked on the desk next to him. “We will cover millions more Americans, but we don’t attempt to do this. This is not affordable.”
What this is going to do is bankrupt America. It’s going to cost millions of Americans their jobs and cut benefits for seniors. This is not what the American people want. They want a more gradual approach to fixing our current system.
The Republican plan, Boehner said, would not increase taxes, not cut Medicare or Medicaid, and would not institute mandates on individuals or businesses.
