Comments on: After Daschle’s Demise http://www.frumforum.com/after-daschles-demise Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy Menefee http://www.frumforum.com/after-daschles-demise/comment-page-1#comment-48635 Amy Menefee Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:44:58 +0000 #comment-48635 Baucus told CQ it was merely a "blip." Daschle's federal health board is already in the process of being created -- it's in the stimulus package! His vision for government involvement in choosing which treatments are effective -- including COST-effective -- is becoming reality. To learn more about this federal health board created in the stimulus, read here: http://tinyurl.com/aqmyg9 Baucus told CQ it was merely a “blip.” Daschle’s federal health board is already in the process of being created — it’s in the stimulus package! His vision for government involvement in choosing which treatments are effective — including COST-effective — is becoming reality.

To learn more about this federal health board created in the stimulus, read here: http://tinyurl.com/aqmyg9

]]> By: sinz54 http://www.frumforum.com/after-daschles-demise/comment-page-1#comment-47438 sinz54 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:46 +0000 #comment-47438 The GOP won't be able to take the health care issue back from the Democrats, until it realizes that vastly improving access to health care (which is a big concern of many Americans) will not happen in a totally free market. Right now, I am struggling with a serious illness. There is no market incentive for any insurer to insure me at any reasonable premium, because my medical claims will exceed any premiums by a wide margin. If insurers can get away with it (i.e., no government regulations), they will drop such people from their rolls and refuse to take on any more. That doesn't mean that the GOP can't propose reforms that include substantial private sector involvement. It does mean that the GOP will have to accept more government regulation and control than free-market purists (e.g., the House Republicans) will like. As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed into law a health care reform bill that works that way. And so far, it seems to be working, as far as improving access is concerned. (Please don't pounce on me about rising costs. Most Americans are more concerned about access than cost containment.) Yet when he ran for President, Romney was forced to disclaim his own achievement, because the GOP faithful didn't want to hear about any health care reform that required any government regulations or mandates whatsoever. Try looking to "RomneyCare" and you might have a valid GOP health care reform proposal--if you could get the free-market purists to swallow it. The GOP won’t be able to take the health care issue back from the Democrats, until it realizes that vastly improving access to health care (which is a big concern of many Americans) will not happen in a totally free market. Right now, I am struggling with a serious illness. There is no market incentive for any insurer to insure me at any reasonable premium, because my medical claims will exceed any premiums by a wide margin. If insurers can get away with it (i.e., no government regulations), they will drop such people from their rolls and refuse to take on any more. That doesn’t mean that the GOP can’t propose reforms that include substantial private sector involvement. It does mean that the GOP will have to accept more government regulation and control than free-market purists (e.g., the House Republicans) will like. As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney signed into law a health care reform bill that works that way. And so far, it seems to be working, as far as improving access is concerned. (Please don’t pounce on me about rising costs. Most Americans are more concerned about access than cost containment.) Yet when he ran for President, Romney was forced to disclaim his own achievement, because the GOP faithful didn’t want to hear about any health care reform that required any government regulations or mandates whatsoever. Try looking to “RomneyCare” and you might have a valid GOP health care reform proposal–if you could get the free-market purists to swallow it.

]]> By: nealjking http://www.frumforum.com/after-daschles-demise/comment-page-1#comment-51293 nealjking Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:59:23 +0000 #comment-51293 The U.S. has a problem with access to health care - a problem that has been solved (at least in the interim) by Canada, UK, France, Germany, ... It is not unreasonable to hope for someone you like better to succeed at generating a solution. But it IS unreasonable, and unseemly, to hope for failure, as you seem to be doing. The U.S. has a problem with access to health care – a problem that has been solved (at least in the interim) by Canada, UK, France, Germany, …

It is not unreasonable to hope for someone you like better to succeed at generating a solution. But it IS unreasonable, and unseemly, to hope for failure, as you seem to be doing.

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