Charlie’s House

Health Care Reform

I was outraged when I heard that Republicans want to repeal Obama’s Healthcare reform bill. Healthcare – or more precisely Health Insurance – is truly and in-arguably broken in this country and needs to be fixed. I don’t like the hodge-podge tinker-toy construct that came out of the Democratic congress, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. At least someone is doing something.

So, when I heard that the GOP wants to scrap the whole thing I was angry. Why would they want to go backwards?

The GOP claims they want to enact their own health-care bill, but the bill that has been submitted doesn’t say anything about creating a better health-care bill. They just want to “To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.”

Why not come out with their own plan and have that be part of the bill? Repeal Obamacare and replace it with GOPCare?

Of course, the whole thing is a moot point. Even if the bill passes the house, there’s no way it will get through the Senate. So, I think the whole thing is just a dog-and-pony show. It’s not intended to do anything, it’s just supposed to look good.

sigh…