wouldn't require either individuals or employers to get coverage.
It avoids expanding the federal role in overseeing the health insurance industry.
it would not set up new federally regulated purchasing pools for individuals and small businesses.
it would allow individuals to use the Internet to purchase lower-cost coverage available anywhere in the country.
The plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals.
The GOP bill would take on medical malpractice, limiting jury awards for pain and suffering and creating new health courts in which a specially trained judge would hear and decide cases involving medical negligence.
It isn't a government take over but entitles everyone to get available insurance and pools the coverages on a website so people can compare and should drive prices down through competition
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/house_GOP_health_bill/2009/07/29/241516.html
EDIT: This is the republican version of reform.
It is NOT a public option. There would be not takeover under this option. It simply seems much better than Hussein Obama's idea for complete take over.
Edit:
APR: What do we do with an the uninsured? Medicaid is a failure. Ever since Nixon passed that law that enabled the health care to dictate prices they flew up.
It avoids expanding the federal role in overseeing the health insurance industry.
it would not set up new federally regulated purchasing pools for individuals and small businesses.
it would allow individuals to use the Internet to purchase lower-cost coverage available anywhere in the country.
The plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals.
The GOP bill would take on medical malpractice, limiting jury awards for pain and suffering and creating new health courts in which a specially trained judge would hear and decide cases involving medical negligence.
It isn't a government take over but entitles everyone to get available insurance and pools the coverages on a website so people can compare and should drive prices down through competition
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/house_GOP_health_bill/2009/07/29/241516.html
EDIT: This is the republican version of reform.
It is NOT a public option. There would be not takeover under this option. It simply seems much better than Hussein Obama's idea for complete take over.
Edit:
APR: What do we do with an the uninsured? Medicaid is a failure. Ever since Nixon passed that law that enabled the health care to dictate prices they flew up.