Health Care Summit: GOP offered No solutions No plans and No compromise, just obstruction, half truths and lies of omission

Health Care Summit:
GOP offered No solutions No plans and No compromise,
just obstruction, half truths and lies of omission.

Sean Lewis
February 25, 2010

President Obama laid out a Comprehensive Plan
for Health Insurance that had a minimum level
of coverage for all Americans with options to
allow people to have greater coverage and options
to allow people without means to obtain minimum
coverage.

This the President said would replace the high
deductible, catastrophic health insurance many
people have because it is the only insurance many
can afford. It will not cover routine medical bills
but will cover major illnesses that would force
people to sell their homes to afford medical care.

The Plan would cost nominally more, at most 15%,
but the Insured could now afford preventative care
and not have to pay out of pocket for many routine
procedures. In the long run the preventative care would
save money by addressing illnesses when treating
them would be far less expensive then at later
stages of illness.

Republicans focused on the additional cost,
not the positive reason for the cost, better care.

Republicans said this would hurt small business
because of the additional costs, not admitting
that most people would choose to work for
a company that offered REAL health insurance
and that the preventative care would keep workers
healthy and more productive.

Republicans talked about free market, and that
this was Government run healthcare. The President
stated Government was merely regulating
a minimum level of care all Insurers must offer,
people were still able to shop for this anywhere they
wanted IF this was the standard for all Insurers.

It basically went on like this. Republicans misstated
a fact, the President corrected them, then the next
Republican would give a variation of the exact same issue.

No Concrete solutions were offered, just one line sound
bites with no substance behind it and complaints about
the plan on the table.

Republicans offered No Real Solutions
Republicans offered No Real Plans
Republicans offered No Compromise,
The Party of No only offered Obstruction!