{"id":17825,"date":"2013-04-30T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17825"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:00:04","slug":"nro-time-to-fix-gop%e2%80%99s-obamacare-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17825\/nro-time-to-fix-gop%e2%80%99s-obamacare-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"NRO: Time to Fix GOP\u2019s ObamaCare Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/346651\/repeal-and-replace-strategy\" target=\"_blank\">National Review Online<\/a> give some much-needed advice to the congressional GOP:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The basic outline of a workable strategy is easy to draw up. First, Republicans should explain why Obamacare is unlikely to work. Second, they should finally unite behind an alternative that would let at least as many people get coverage as Obamacare but without the law\u2019s side-effects. Third, they should say that they plan to repeal and replace Obamacare as soon as they can do so \u2014 whether in one fell swoop, which could occur only under a new president in 2017, or one step at a time. Fourth, they should advance bills that both replace parts of Obamacare and highlight its flaws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The most perplexing thing about congressional Republicans is that no one has stepped forward to be the Paul Ryan of health care reform. Ryan spent years in the background learning the federal budget process to construct a clear, workable reform that slows down the growth of entitlement spending while making Medicare and Medicaid more market friendly.<\/p>\n<p>With ObamaCare on the books since 2010, it\u2019s a wonder that no Republican in the House or Senate has taken on the responsibility of putting together an alternative that the GOP can rally around. To my knowledge, no one \u2013 not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patientsactionnetwork.com\/physicians-of-the-113th-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">16 Republican physicians in Congress<\/a> or anyone on a relevant committee \u2013 is taking steps to make sure there\u2019s a workable replacement in the event conservatives get their wish and repeal ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough to be right that ObamaCare is wrong on the merits and impossible to implement. There\u2019s also got to be a contrasting vision of health care reform that is better than ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, we\u2019re still waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors at National Review Online give some much-needed advice to the congressional GOP: &#8220;The basic outline of a workable strategy is easy to draw up. First, Republicans should explain why Obamacare is unlikely to work. Second, they should finally unite behind an alternative that would let at least as many people get coverage as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3308,35,802,1447],"class_list":["post-17825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17828,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions\/17828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}