Earlier Monday the White House held a press conference to introduce the Obama Health Care Plan as the one that stands the best chance of actually gaining bipartisan support. Now, with the day not over, it's reported that Republicans hate Obama Health Care Plan, but the GOP refuses to offer their own plan!
It must be asked if the GOP is really serious about fixing the American Health Care system? What else can one infer if the Republicans don't have their own plan? Moreover, the only way voters in GOP districts could reelect any one of their representative is to fail to understand what's going on in the economics of Health Care. Controlling the growth of rates is paramount; it's also something the GOP doesn't want to do.
Over at ThinkProgress a commenter observed that the new plan caves in "to the special interests and wingnuts" but if the GOP doesn't go for it, perhaps they're even wing-nuttier than advertised.
The "party-of-no" GOP strategy can only go so far before it crashes and burns. It did so today in the matter of the jobs bill, where five Republicans bolted from the party line filibuster plan and cast a procedural vote for it. Scott Brown, who was considered to be a major opponent of the bill, one one of the GOP Senators who cast a vote for it. Apparently, even on the GOP side, there are elected officials who want to get things done. The vote passed 62 to 30.
The question is will that desire to get things done carry over into the Obama Health Care Plan? Will the GOP stop playing games?
Stay tuned.
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