REPUBLICANS NEED A SEAT AT THE TABLE ---------------
“Republicans Introduce: The Improving Health Care for All Americans Act” “RSC Unveils A Solution
For Affordable, Quality Health Care” (Republican Study Committee, Press Release, 7/30/09)
“House GOP Solutions Group Outlines Health Care Plan to Increase Affordability, Accessibility, Availability Commonsense Health Care Reform to Lower Costs and Increase Access And Quality At A Price Our Country Can Afford” (Rep. Roy Blunt, Press Release, 6/17/09)
“GOP Offers Constructive Options To Improve Access To Health Care” (Reps. Roy Blunt, Sam Graves, and Lynn Jenkins, Kansas City Star, 6/10/09)
“To GOP, Reform Is About Wider Access, Lower Prices, Not Government Control” (Rep. Roy Blunt, Op-Ed, The Hill, 6/10/09)
“An Alternative to Obamacare” (Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Burr and Reps. Paul Ryan and David Nunes, Op-Ed, Real Clear Politics, “GOP Offers Constructive Options To Improve Access To Health Care” (Reps. Roy Blunt, Sam Graves, and Lynn Jenkins, Kansas City Star, 6/10/09)
“To GOP, Reform Is About Wider Access, Lower Prices, Not Government Control” (Rep. Roy Blunt, Op-Ed, The Hill, 6/10/09)
President Obama’s health care plan will cost trillions of dollars, raise every American’s taxes and worsen already staggering federal deficits.
To pay for their health care reform plan, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress propose raising taxes on businesses, eliminating existing tax breaks for businesses that provide health care for their employees now, eliminating existing tax breaks for medical savings accounts and creating new taxes on alcohol, sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks and iced tea.
“Democrats are eyeing a cornucopia of new taxes — some of which would violate Obama’s $250,000 vow… House Democrats are considering numerous tax hikes ranging from a national ‘value-add tax’ on consumer goods, higher income taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year, an increase in the Medicare payroll tax and new taxes on sugary soft drinks and alcohol. Any broad-based tax on consumer goods would apply to people below Obama’s $250,000 threshold.” (Jeffrey Young, “Dems To Show How They Will Find $1 Trillion”, The Hill, 7/6/09) research www.gop.com
