{"id":21864,"date":"2014-02-10T20:49:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2014-02-10T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:49:40","slug":"there-really-is-a-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21864","title":{"rendered":"There Really Is A Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/winning-alternative-obamacare_778872.html\" target=\"_blank\">Weekly Standard <\/a>posted an article by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"William Kristol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Kristol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bill Kristol<\/a> and Jeffrey Anderson about the 2017 Project. The 2017 Project has developed an alternative heath care proposal to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It would solve the three core problems that called out for real reform even before the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a> passed Obamacare:\u00a0getting more people <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">insured<\/a>; dealing with the problem of preexisting conditions; and lowering costs.\u00a0In providing politically attractive and substantively sound solutions to these three core concerns, it would justify bringing an end to Obamacare, and thus would pave the way for full repeal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Just as important as what our proposal would do is what it wouldn\u2019t do.\u00a0\u00a0It wouldn\u2019t force anyone to buy insurance. It wouldn\u2019t auto-enroll anyone in any plan. It wouldn\u2019t reduce the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax break\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">tax break<\/a> for employer-based insurance (aside from closing the tax loophole at the high end). It wouldn\u2019t cost anywhere near the $2 trillion over a decade that Obamacare would cost. It wouldn\u2019t undermine <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of religion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">religious liberty<\/a>. It would allow Americans to keep their current plan if they like it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be wonderful to have a plan that provided <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">health insurance<\/a> for every <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> without spending $2 trillion over ten years. It would also be nice to let Americans make their own decisions about what health insurance they need and what health insurance they don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the alternate proposal to ObamaCare can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/2017project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017Project.com<\/a>. Please follow the link to see the details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=74800536-160e-45e2-908d-591ee6e41768\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Weekly Standard posted an article by Bill Kristol and Jeffrey Anderson about the 2017 Project. The 2017 Project has developed an alternative heath care proposal to ObamaCare. The article explains: It would solve the three core problems that called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,132,660,7,134,285,1015,7088],"class_list":["post-21864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-health-insurance","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-united-states","tag-weekly-standard","tag-william-kristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21865,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions\/21865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}