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Conn Carroll reports that Rep. Paul Ryan will propose a health care plan as a replacement for Obamacare in a "major address" on Tuesday. 

Although no details are forthcoming yet, Carroll flags a line from a recent Budget Committee publication -- "And for all Americans, it means making health insurance more portable and more affordable by personalizing the tax credit for health insurance" -- that makes it sound as though the reform proposal won't be too far from the McCain 2008 plan for scrapping the deduction for employer-provided health insurance and replacing it with an individual health care tax credit. 

Here are a few predictions: 1. Whatever Ryan proposes will become the GOP's baseline stance on health care; suggesting repeal of Obamacare without having proposed a replacement will become unconservative. 2. Ryan' proposed reform will represent a plausible outline for reforming U.S. health care, even if some details are awry. 3. Everyone left of David Brooks will seize on some eminently fixable flaw in Ryan's plan, and conclude base on that alone that Ryan is a fraud and just wants poor people to suffer. 

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Simon Templar| 9.23.11 @ 5:41PM

They need to be educating the public about the disaster of Obamacare and the slated collaspe of medicare.

The bill that no one read is so full of non-related health care laws, regulations, and new agencies it makes it the most dangerous and destructive piece of legislation ever passed. The public needs to know this first and it needs to be put out in the light for all to see. Then you can propose an alternative fix..timing is everything.

Solo| 9.24.11 @ 7:41AM

You're absolutely right, Simon. The public does need to be educated on the disaster that is Obamacare. But...therein lies the problem.

IF the argument won't fit on a bumper sticker, the "public" will just tune it out.
"Make Healthcare Affordable" is all the public knows about Obamacare and it's all the public has time (or inclination) to ponder. Never mind that this monstrosity of a "Health Care Plan" will actually do the opposite.

Any attempt to un-do that will be viewed by the public as "Republicans Help Fat-Cat Insurance Companies" or "Republicans Want You To Die Quickly".

Unless the Republican party can win at least 60 Seats in the Senate and win the White House (and sneak a repeal vote in the middle of the night), Obamacare is here to stay.

Trying to explain the Stalking Horse contained within the democrat's massive government power grab to soccer moms would be like trying to explain quantum physics to a chimp.

aware| 9.23.11 @ 6:02PM

Another law. It never occurs to them that when plan A is a miserable failure and causes more harm than the original "problem" the answer is to stop not move on to plan B.

Of course plan B has to address the original problem AND the problems plan A caused while bringing in its own problems. This then requires a plan C to "fix" plan B problems and plan D to "fix" plan C problems..........repeat, repeat, repeat.

I hate politicians and their hellish monster the State.

Pat Chouli| 9.23.11 @ 7:58PM

Ryan is a genious at pscycho-analyzing the conventional wisdom mind until it disengenuates. I look forawrd to his proposal. He will angrivate the liberal nutbrans by proposaling a solution to the medical health care problem in this country AND he will banboozle the rino elitisms by refusing to take their manglepated claptrap AND he will out-party the tea party muffin heads by saying what they will wish they had said but they were too afraid of the backwash to say it. Maybe this will be the final straw that gets him to throw his cap in the ring and run for President. Is his chance slim to little? Not a problemo. Palin-Ryan 2012. Boom. That's the sound of your head exploiting all of you American Specating-but-not-thinking-or-doing types. Stop spectating! Stop being passive wangabouts! Don't just spectate! Think! Do!

Palin-Ryan 2012. Boom. Problem solved.

Nite| 9.23.11 @ 9:49PM

If Ryan proposes individual plans for everyone, it will be a poor proposal. Individual plans are more expensive and have fewer benefits. That will change if groups will band together such as counties, cities, states etc., and sell across state lines. However, laws would have to be changed in all the states regarding benefits etc. Ryan probably needs to do more work and gain more knowledge in this regard, because this is a complex issue. I have worked with insurance for about 40 years and have a very good understanding of how all of this works and should work.

Margie| 9.24.11 @ 7:17PM

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