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Lamar Has A Better Idea

By Kleinheider Posted on November 4, 2009 at 9:53 am

The senior senator is not a fan of the current health care bill out there:

Rather than “a 2,000-page bill full of surprises,” Alexander outlined several different shorter Republican proposals to help Congress go step by step in the right direction to reduce costs, including measures to:

• Allow small businesses to pool resources to purchase health insurance for employees like the Small Business Health Plans Act (Enzi), which is 88 pages;
• Allow for the purchasing of health insurance across state lines to increase competition like the Health Care Choices Act (DeMint), which is 30 pages;
• Reduce the amount of junk lawsuits against doctors like the Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act (Gregg), which is 30 pages;
• Equalize the tax treatment of health care so all Americans can afford it like Title VI of the Healthy Americans Act (Bennett), which is 21 pages;
• Promote the adoption of Health Information Technology like Title VII of the Patients Choice Act (Coburn, Burr), which is 13 pages;
• Create health care exchanges for the purchase of private health insurance like Title II of the Patients Choice Act (Coburn, Burr), which is 8 pages;
• Combat waste fraud and abuse like the Prevent Health Care Fraud Act (LeMieux), which is 21 pages.

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6 Responses to “Lamar Has A Better Idea”

  1. Republic party pooper writes
    November 4th, 2009 9:55 am

    OMG TOO MANY PAGES! DUUUUUUHHHHHH. I HATES THE REEDIN.

  2. dontcallmemikey writes
    November 4th, 2009 10:30 am

    In a related story, Lamar! has asked Stephen King to remove pages from his classic novel, “The Stand.” Lamar! said, “This is another 1,144 page book that could have been much shorter.” Lamar! suggest King should have considered Dr. Suess as a guide to how long a book should be. “He packed a lot of surprise into ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’” Lamar! noted, “and didn’t need but 20 pages or so to do it.”

  3. Southern Beale writes
    November 4th, 2009 12:49 pm

    I’m sorry, Lamar! must want the “My Pet Goat” edition of major healthcare reform legislation. Unfortunately, not *everything* can be reduced to the size of a bumper sticker slogan, which clearly is the extent of the Republican Party’s attention span.

  4. Jim writes
    November 4th, 2009 1:37 pm

    Any guess on how many of our legislators will read the healthcare bill before voting on it? What good does it do to write such a massive bill if the people voting on it don’t know what is in it?

  5. TNVolunteer73 writes
    November 4th, 2009 1:43 pm

    Yep.. The Healthcare bill could have been written on a Napkin from the Capital Hill Cafe…

    All that needs to be done

    1. Everyone is required to purchase health insurance.

    2. there is a 100% tax credit for insurance premiums.

    3. Insurance Companies cannot cherry pick (No prexisting conditions)

    4 insurance companies cannot drop coverage

    5. everyone is charged the same rate for the same coverage.

    6. You can buy insurance from any state.

  6. redhead335 writes
    November 6th, 2009 9:47 pm

    I guess the 285-page SCHIP bill was more to his liking.

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