My thoughts on the post about the GOP plan

Firstly, I am *not* opposed to a GOP plan - and to be fair I don't have enough details about what it would and would not do (which I plan to remedy). 

I read the following post to get more information, but much of it is opinion - or vague -and did not explain how it is better than the current bill(s) under consideration.  Let me be specific: 

OP:  This is what I like about the GOP plan:

Instead of govt insurance it reforms the system.

1.  How is the "Pelosi's plan' 'GOVT INSURANCE?'

It will create high-risk insurance pools, allow people to purchase insurance across state lines (Excellent!!!!!!). It will lower the cost of health care and increase access to good quality health care. It includes people with pre-existing conditions. It will lower costs for small businesses. The rates would drop by anywhere from 5 to 10%.

How will it do the above?  This I will also research myself.

Individual will have what they call a “one-stop marketplace” to choose what plan they want. So I can choose the same plan someone in Kansas or Missouri pays which would cut my premium by about $300. And on top of that it would cover doctors visits and preventive visits.

$300 a year?  

It would offer coverage to any individual regardless of their health history or age.

Offering coverage is not the same thing as *providing* coverage.  What does the plan do for people who cannot afford the lowest premiums possible?

The GOP is also looking at “The Patients Choice Act of 2009 which ends tax breaks for employers who provide insurance, and instead gives a $5710 tax cut to families and $2290 to individual to help them pay for insurance coverage.

A tax cut is NOT money in your pocket, especially if the premiums are still too high.

The GOP’s plan will lower the cost of health care,

How will it lower the cost?

which means more people will be able to afford it. You won’t be refused health care due to any medical condition and you won’t be dropped from your insurance plan if you have a serious illness.

Lower cost of health care means more people will be able to afford to buy it and people will more likely tend to go to the doctor when they are sick and not wait.

How much lower?  They can't lower cost a fraction and call it a solution.  And what about people who can't afford the lowest premiums available?

So...if everyone who claims to be so interested in getting more people insured this is the plan to go with.

In your opinion. 

We do not need to destroy existing health insurance companies, we need to put stricter regulations on them.

Problem with Pelosi-crap-care plan is that it will not insure everyone, and you either join it or you pay anywhere from 25K to 250K and/or go to jail anywhere from 1 to 5 years. Sorry, not such a good plan.

This is not fact - it's careless opinion.  For one thing the *penalty* is 2.5% of your salary IF you refuse coverage - and the jail thing I strongly suspect is more manipulation of the true language of that part of the bill.

On top of that they will destroy the health care system.

Your opinion.

They are incompetent with no knowledge of how to run anything. Take a look at Medicare,

Medicare works well for the most part - and part of Obama's intentions are to clean up the fraud.

VA

The VA stinks, I agree with you there.

The indian reservations health care system.

(I say give the country back to the Native Americans - at least they respected the land. :)

Those are all government run programs and they have destroyed them.

Exaggerated opinion.

Not to mention the post office

the post office is not government-run

and other non-health related agencies

such as?

I note you did not mention any 'government-run' entities that work well... do you think there are none?

With the Pelosi-crap-care, the quality of health care will deteriorate,

Really?  Because it has not even been enacted.  Sounds like an opinion.

the older you get the less fortunate you will be, and the quality of your care will deteriorate. Like England and Canada you will have to wait months and months if not years before you can get a test you need, but by then it will be too late and like a lot of people in England you will end up dying of the disease before you even are able to get the tests you need.

LOL- so many opinions, so little time.

Granted that some snively slimy politician sitting behind a desk with absolutely no knowledge of medical information will be the one deciding on whether or not he will allow you the tests/medication/treatment your doctor wants you to get.

Granted? Really? Granted? Would that be a slimy GOP pol or a slimy Dem pol?

Cost of GOP plan 61 billion

Maybe - I haven't checked it out.

Cost of Pelosi-crap-care 1.05 trillion.

BUZZZZ FALSE!  It's somewhere in the 800 billion range.  That's about 8 DAYS worth of war in the country du jour.

Don't be so concerned about "Pelosi's plan" - the Senate will decimate it and we'll be left with a watered-down, bare bones bill that Senator Fraud from Connecticut will not filibuster but Obama will still sign and the country will have SPENT tons of money for not much in the way of reform.

And to the degree the Democrats are quashing GOP input, shame on them.  I don't care WHO gets credit for the final bill - as long as it helps WE THE sick PEOPLE in the U.S.