{"id":1330,"date":"2009-11-05T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2009-11-05T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:44:14","slug":"the_alternative_healthcare_pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"The Alternative Healthcare Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/05\/gop-health-care-reform-cost-61-billion-cut-deficit-68-billion\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article today on the alternative healthcare proposal the Republicans have put forth.&nbsp; The Congressional Budget Office has scored that proposal and says that the plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;which relies on interstate competition, HSAs, and tort reform, would <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cboblog.cbo.gov\/?p=414\"><em>only cost $61 billion<\/em><\/a><em> in the first ten years of the plan &#8212; or slightly less than 6% of what Democrats plan to spend to overhaul the entire system.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bill would also reduce premiums 5 to 8 percent for individual healthcare plans, 7 to 10 percent in the small group market, and 0 to 3 percent in the large group market.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This plan deserves a fair hearing as an alternative plan to a government takeover of health insurance.&nbsp; Hopefully, Congress will pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air&nbsp;posted an article today on the alternative healthcare proposal the Republicans have put forth.&nbsp; The Congressional Budget Office has scored that proposal and says that the plan: &#8220;&#8230;which relies on interstate competition, HSAs, and tort reform, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}