Obama’s Lies . . . and Conservative Healthcare Reforms

Mona Charon writing at National Review lists The Lies that Sold Obamacare

Mr. Obama’s propensity to lie is finally widely acknowledged, but that acknowledgment hasn’t gone far enough. It isn’t just that the pledge about keeping your plan was a noble lie — the whole law is based upon lies.

Read the entire article and bookmark it for yourself as it serves as a useful recount of the Democrats perfidy. Send the link to your friends and acquaintances who still believe that the Obamanation is Camelot reincarnated.

Conservative Healthcare Reforms

Various conservative proposals for reforming healthcare delivery have been proposed all along as alternatives  to the ridiculously complex, healthcare harming Obamacare. The Heritage Foundation has posted a paper that sets forth a coherent proposal that with straightforward implementing legislation would serve the country well.  The title of the article is  Repeal of Obamacare: Moving to Patient-Centered, Market-Based Health Care.  Conservatives  are repeatedly accused of just being negative about Obamacare without offering alternatives. It has always been untrue.  Refer such critics to this article as one example of a conservative healthcare reform proposal. The abstract to the Heritage proposal  follows.

Abstract
Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction by eroding the doctor–patient relationship, centralizing control, and increasing health costs. True health care reform would empower individuals, with their doctors, to make their own health care decisions free from government interference. Therefore, Obamacare should be stopped and fully repealed. Then Congress and the states should enact patient-centered, market-based reforms that better serve Americans.

For a better life, Americans need a health care system that they, not the government, control. Consumers should have the ability to choose how to meet their health insurance needs in a free market for insurance. Taxpayers should benefit from a more efficient and affordable system for helping those who need health care but cannot afford it. Above all, patients, with their doctors, should make their own health care decisions free from government interference.

The important first step is to repeal the Obamacare statute that puts the government in charge of health care. The second step is to let the country move to a patient-centered, market-based system that focuses on citizens and not on the government.
Principles for Reform

To allow Americans to reclaim control of their own health care and benefit from competition in a free market for insurance and health care, Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute and enact patient-centered, market-based reforms based on five principles:

• Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance;
• Let free markets provide the insurance and health care services that people want;
• Encourage employers to provide a portable health insurance benefit to employees;
• Assist those who need help through civil society, the free market, and the states; and
• Protect the right of conscience and unborn children.

The principles laid out above are well fleshed out in the article with ways to implement them.  Heritage provides an important conservative reference.

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